My link/anchor elements are colored blue. Where is it set to the default text color in the example?

Hello Jesse,

Hyperlinks by default have a linked, active and visited state. There states will show a blue, red and purple color based on if it has been visited before.

With CSS there is many ways to achieve things, such as what you have above you can change the state of all <a> tags to have no underline, as well as many other things: color, line-height, font-weight, you name it! That being said, changing the color this way will also cause them all to be a certain color, and lose the state functionality (link, active, visited) and you will also have to add a hover state if you want it to appear such when a user is interacting with it. The other downside is EVERY <a> on your site will follow these rules.

You could also manipulate these styles by using ids, classes, or a combination of the both to target different areas. There is some good treehouse demos on this exactly - I will have to lookup their links, in the meantime however I suggest checking out the css pseudo-classes for styling links (:active, :visited, :link, :hover):

• http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link.asp
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%3Aactive
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:link
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:hover

This method allows you to manipulate <a> tags, while keeping that state functionality you can still also target specific classes, id's etc with this method!

I hope this helps,

Brian