[resolved] CC: Stage 7: Adding Pages to a Website. (Challenge 1 of 5) font-size issue

Hi Chris,

There's quite a few postings for this challenge where that selector was tried and I'm wondering if the wording does need to be changed.

The instructions are supposed to be describing html that looks like this: <ul class="contact-info">

So you could pass the challenge with .contact-info or ul.contact-info

When you read the instructions did you think the html was more like this?

<div class="contact-info">
  <ul>
  </ul>
</div>

The descendant selector you tried would work in this case.

Do you think you would have gotten the correct selector if the wording was more like "Select the unordered list that has the class contact-info..."?

Hi Jason,

One of the issues I've been having so far has been with wording in code challenges. Mainly that most challenges start their statement with the word, select. Which means to choose the item, when no item is present in the editor to choose. The word, write would be a better word to use since that is what the challenge wants me to do.

In the case of this challenge the problem was two fold. The first being the wording, "Select the unordered list with the class contact-info," and the second being that we haven't seen that section of HTML in awhile. If the latter was shown in the code editor, or as some other form of reference. I would of never wrote it out how I did because I would of remembered the unordered list had the class. Instead of assuming the class was applied before hand. This is in part to bad habits I've formed over the years, so to be fair it's part my fault.

So in my head at the moment I thought the HTML was formed how you displayed it in your comment, and not as <ul class="contact-info">. Also because the challenge explicitly stated unordered list I thought it was something I needed to include. If the question was worded as, "Add the class contact-info into the CSS below. Then assign a font size of 0.9em, and include a margin, and padding of zero, and list styling of none." I would of wrote it how it wanted. If this is the best wording or not, I don't know.

A side note the challenge I'm on right now wants the answer of #id li {}, and is worded much the same. So perhaps having a reference, or maybe a tip of looking at your workspace would resolve some of these issues.

To your suggestion of writing down ul.contact-info we haven't got that advance with selectors yet. However I wonder if the check would of taken it since it kicked back that the font size setting was the issue. Although it wasn't.

To your wording suggestion my answer is no. Like I said before I've felt like a lot of these questions have been badly worded by using the term select to begin with. But at this moment of my response I'm starting to think part of the issue is the missing reference to what was done two or five sections before hand. On top of the wording, which feels to be more set in the Western dialect than Midland.