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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets What is CSS?

Samuel Fils
Samuel Fils
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Posted by Samuel Fils
Samuel Fils
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styling nav element hyperlink

why do we need <style> nav a {}</style> to style a href. Can we just use <style> a {}</style>

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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi again! You could use the second version with just the a {}, but that will style every link on your page. My guess is in this instance they only want to style the links inside the nav element. :sparkles: