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CSS Animating SVG with CSS Transitions and Transforms Transitions and Transforms

Marie Jeffries
Marie Jeffries
2,972 Points
Posted by Marie Jeffries
Marie Jeffries
2,972 Points

I am stuck on this. Can someone explain to me why this isn't changing the fill color on hover?

Do I need use fill-color:?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Animating SVG with CSS</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="base.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="60 60 240 240">
        <g>
      <circle class="star-bg" fill="#40adcf" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="6" cx="180" cy="180" r="108.3"/>
          <path class="star" fill="#fff" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M180 107.8l16.9 52.1h54.8l-44.3 32.2 16.9 52.1-44.3-32.2-44.3 32.2 16.9-52.1-44.3-32.2h54.8z"/>
    </g>  
  </svg>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.star-bg {
  transition: fill 1s;
}
.star-bg hover {
  fill: steelblue;
}

2 Answers

Ryan Dower
Ryan Dower
2,454 Points
Ryan Dower
Ryan Dower
2,454 Points

Hi - apologies, this may not help in the slightest as I'm a rookie and this is pretty advanced for me, but I did happen to learn about descendant selectors and pseudo classes here: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-basics-5/descendant-selectors

I noticed you are using a descendent selector in your css. I see in the HTML the class for .star-bg but I don't see any class, type or id selectors etc for "hover". so maybe your trying to use a pseudo class. In which case try .star-bg:hover {

I hope that helps. 😊

Marie Jeffries
Marie Jeffries
2,972 Points
Marie Jeffries
Marie Jeffries
2,972 Points

You were absolutely right. I completely forgot the colon. Thank you so much!!