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CSS CSS Selectors Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Elements Challenge

Posted by Doug Hawkinson
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Doug Hawkinson
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,073 Points

Challenge times out without completing

I have tried repeated times to complete this Challenge but it times out every time. So I don't know if I have and error or there is a network problem or some thing.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.progbar::after {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: inherit;
    background-color: #5ece7f; 
}

.progbar::before {
  content: "";
    display: block;
    width: 24px;
    height: 24px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    left: 49%;
    top: -9px;
    background-color: #7dd898; 
}

.progbar {
  height: 6px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  background: #d6d7d9;
  position: relative;
  margin-bottom: 3.875em; 
}

a::after {
  content: url(https://teamtreehouse.com)
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="progbar"></div> 
    <a href="http://teamtreehouse.com">Check out the URL: </a>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

:warning: SPOILER ALERT

I'm not sure why it times out, maybe it's trying to include the entire treehouse web page as the content. But the challenge is asking you to use the value of the href attribute (of the a tag) as the content. The CSS function that returns the value of an attribute is attr(). So your CSS would look like this:

a::after {
  content: attr(href);
}
Doug Hawkinson
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Doug Hawkinson
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,073 Points

Steve:

Thanks. A newbie mistake. I was trying to follow the img examples from the course work.

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

What times out you mean when you try to submit your answer it just hangs then eventually gives a time out error?

This is going to sound like a brain dead answer but clear cache, the start browser backup and try again. Are you able to get to other websites, especially ones you never go to without big lags? For example, I don't know, how about https://www.yahoo.com?