Test your skills: Selectors
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The aim of this skill test is to assess whether you understand CSS selectors.

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Task 1
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In this task, use CSS to do the following things, without changing the HTML:

* Make `<h1>` headings blue.
* Give `<h2>` headings a blue background and white text.
* Cause text wrapped in a `<span>` to have a font-size of 200%.

Your final result should look like the image below:

![Text with the CSS applied for the solution to task 1.](/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Selectors_Tasks/selectors1.jpg)

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Task 2
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In this task, we want you to make the following changes to the look of the content in this example, without changing the HTML:

* Give the element with an id of `special` a yellow background.
* Give the element with a class of `alert` a 1px grey border.
* If the element with a class of `alert` also has a class of `stop`, make the background red.
* If the element with a class of `alert` also has a class of `go`, make the background green.

Your final result should look like the image below:

![Text with the CSS applied for the solution to task 2.](/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Selectors_Tasks/selectors2.jpg)

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Task 3
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In this task, we want you to make the following changes without adding to the HTML:

* Style links, making the link-state orange, visited links green, and remove the underline on hover.
* Make the first element inside the container font-size: 150% and the first line of that element red.
* Stripe every other row in the table by selecting these rows and giving them a background color of #333 and foreground of white.

Your final result should look like the image below:

![Text with the CSS applied for the solution to task 3.](/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Selectors_Tasks/selectors3.jpg)

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Task 4
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In this task, we want you to do the following:

* Make any paragraph that directly follows an `<h2>` element red.
* Remove the bullets and add a 1px grey bottom border only to list items that are a direct child of the ul with a class of `list`.

Your final result should look like the image below:

![Text with the CSS applied for the solution to task 4.](/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Selectors_Tasks/selectors4.jpg)

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Task 5
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In this task, add CSS using attribute selectors to do the following:

* Target the `<a>` element with a `title` attribute and make the border pink (`border-color: pink`).
* Target the `<a>` element with an `href` attribute that contains the word `contact` somewhere in its value and make the border orange (`border-color: orange`).
* Target the `<a>` element with an `href` value starting with `https` and give it a green border (`border-color: green`).

Your final result should look like the image below:

![Four links with different color borders.](/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Selectors_Tasks/selectors-attribute.png)

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