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  • Stephen Drake
    Stephen Drake
    784 Points

    :only child confused

    Posted July 15, 2023 10:49am by Stephen Drake
    Stephen Drake
    784 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    2 Answers

  • Yoko Iseki
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    Yoko Iseki
    Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,524 Points

    Why "Item 1" is not affected by :only-child?

    Posted August 24, 2022 8:56pm by Yoko Iseki
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    Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,524 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    2 Answers

  • Eddie Harmon
    Eddie Harmon
    17,094 Points

    Unexpected result when using :empty

    Posted June 23, 2020 11:32pm by Eddie Harmon
    Eddie Harmon
    17,094 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    1 Answer

  • Jake Almendarez
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    Jake Almendarez
    Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,250 Points

    for some reason the font size is still applied to all the elements even if after i add h1 and span tags.

    Posted June 12, 2020 3:46am by Jake Almendarez
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    Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,250 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    2 Answers

  • Sam Weeks
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    Sam Weeks
    Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,699 Points

    :only child, tad confused...

    Posted January 23, 2020 3:04pm by Sam Weeks
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    Sam Weeks
    Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,699 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    3 Answers

  • Adam Duffy
    Adam Duffy
    4,466 Points

    :only-child psuedo class not displaying properly in Chrome.

    Posted September 2, 2019 9:07pm by Adam Duffy
    Adam Duffy
    4,466 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    2 Answers

  • James King
    James King
    5,529 Points

    Trouble Understanding :only-child

    Posted January 30, 2018 9:51pm by James King
    James King
    5,529 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    1 Answer

  • Aakash Srivastav
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    Aakash Srivastav
    Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points

    :only-child

    Posted January 12, 2018 8:21am by Aakash Srivastav
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    Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    1 Answer

  • Aakash Srivastav
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    Aakash Srivastav
    Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points

    :empty

    Posted January 12, 2018 7:10am by Aakash Srivastav
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    Aakash Srivastav
    Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    1 Answer

  • bobdeei
    bobdeei
    8,575 Points

    :only-child no working as expected?

    Posted December 26, 2017 4:05am by bobdeei
    bobdeei
    8,575 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    1 Answer

  • Luca Di Pinto
    Luca Di Pinto
    8,051 Points

    Need help! Can you explain me bette how :only-child works??

    Posted September 27, 2016 8:59pm by Luca Di Pinto
    Luca Di Pinto
    8,051 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    2 Answers

  • Ross Alejandro Bendal
    Ross Alejandro Bendal
    8,993 Points

    I did a :empty and expect it to affect my <h1></h1>, but it did not. Any ideas why?

    Posted July 2, 2016 10:17am by Ross Alejandro Bendal
    Ross Alejandro Bendal
    8,993 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    2 Answers

  • Malcolm Stretten
    Malcolm Stretten
    3,814 Points

    can't make only-child code work

    Posted June 24, 2016 1:54pm by Malcolm Stretten
    Malcolm Stretten
    3,814 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    7 Answers

  • Francis N
    Francis N
    10,376 Points

    many people are concerned that chrome doesnt support :only-child but in the video, Guil is using Chrome....

    Posted February 6, 2016 2:22am by Francis N
    Francis N
    10,376 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    6 Answers

  • Dennis Marquez
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    Dennis Marquez
    Courses Plus Student 2,791 Points

    My :empty doesn't work in Google Chrome. Any ideas?

    Posted November 24, 2015 5:31pm by Dennis Marquez
    Dennis Marquez
    Courses Plus Student 2,791 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    3 Answers

  • Sean Flanagan
    Sean Flanagan
    33,237 Points

    Why does my h1 appear on the left of the browser?

    Posted May 26, 2015 12:23pm by Sean Flanagan
    Sean Flanagan
    33,237 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    4 Answers

  • Richard Walton
    Richard Walton
    10,861 Points

    Different from video?

    Posted April 30, 2015 9:55am by Richard Walton
    Richard Walton
    10,861 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    1 Answer

  • Alexander Melo
    Alexander Melo
    4,297 Points

    Having Trouble with :only-child.

    Posted March 19, 2015 1:01am by Alexander Melo
    Alexander Melo
    4,297 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    12 Answers

  • Michał Gonciarz
    Michał Gonciarz
    13,549 Points

    Only child doesn't work

    Posted March 5, 2015 7:11pm by Michał Gonciarz
    Michał Gonciarz
    13,549 Points
    • CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
    • :only-child and :empty

    10 Answers

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