[BUG] CSS lesson: Border, question 2 - Fill in the blanks to set the border style:

Question

This question is very misleading, or ambiguous in my opinion.

The question reads: Fill in the blanks to set the border style:
In my opinion there's a lack of information.

What style is expected?
Solid, Double, Dotted?...
Apparently they expect solid.

The next thing is; How should the answer be formatted?

border-style:solid; is not the right answer.
border-style: solid; is also not the right answer.

After I tried:
- border-style:solid;
- border-style: solid;
- solid;
- :solid;
- : solid;
- border-style: dashed;
...etc.

I asked for the answer and wouldn't you know it... The answer was "border-style: solid";
A solution I had provided 2 times already.

That was the most frustrating lesson I've had on Sololearn, espeacially because the subject is so simple, yet the question tried it's hardest to confuse instead of teach.

I can't be the only one that felt that this question, on purpose, wanted to throw us off to an extend that made them leave out information to make the question harder to answer.

Answer 1

You should submit bug reports via email to [e-mail]

I tried to find the exact question you were having trouble with but was unable to. Be sure to note the course, lesson, and question containing the 🪲 in the email.

Answer 2

I'm confused LOL 😂. I used border -bottom, tried it both, with and without spaces preceding 'solid' in the border-styles exercise.

Maybe I have the wrong exercise 😕

Answer 3

Go to the CSS course and find the lesson "Borders" click "Continue" 3 times. That's the question 👍

Answer 4

I just tried it with no errors.

As Mihaly Nyilas mentioned, the exercise asks for a specific border. Hint: border-style is not the correct answer 😉

Answer 5

I just tried again and if I could post screenshots I would.
"border-style:solid;" does not work.
"border-style: solid;" does not work.

If I ask for the answer I get "border-style: solid;" as the correct answer.
Altough I just found out that if I go back and answer the question again right after getting the answer it works.

I have the screenshots to back it up.
It's that simple.

Answer 6

send the screenshots with the exact lessons "path" to:
[e-mail]
what did you try, etc.
the development team will look after to fix any bugs as soon as possible...
sorry for the inconvenience. maybe I didn't correctly understand which lesson you think about

Answer 7

Introduction to CSS -> Styling Elements -> Lesson: Borders
task/practice: Border Styles
read very carefully the task. it's clearly written, which border is in the question.
I hope this helps a lot :-)

Answer 8

I understand that you're trying to say that the information isn't lacking, Mihaly Nyilas, however, the problem is not the lesson. I believe that yhe question itself doesn't provide the necessary information to answer it correctly.

"Fill in the blanks to set the border style:"

The question doesn't state which style.
The border style supports various formats, like dashed, double, solid etc.

The problem with free-text solution is that a single space can cause the answer to be invalid.

Border-style:solid; is exactly the same as border-style: solid;, however, according to the question, it's not.

Answer 9

Border-style: solid; is the correct answer, though, Keith 🤷‍♂️

So no, the question doesn't specify what is meant. It simply asks an ambiguous question. There's no way around it.

Answer 10

go one step behind to see some examples. that surely have to help you

Answer 11

Hi

Answer 12

I feel like you think that it's because I do not understand the question and that I'm looking for the answer or looking for an explanation as to why the answer is the answer.
This is not the case. As I stated in my original post, I already know the answer. However, I think the question is misleading.
This has nothing to do with what information can be found in any of the lessons of the CSS course. The lessons are not relevant to the problem I have with the question.

I can go back one step and read the entire lesson with the up most care. However, this would still not make the question in the quiz less misleading.

So as I wrote in my previous reply to you, Mihaly Nyilas, the question simply asks me to fill out the blanks to set the border style. I tried all the above (in my OP), however, not one of them worked.
I then clicked to get the answer, and it gave me the answer I had already typed in.

Someone in the comments also stated that they tried it and it didn't work.
But the answer is "border-style: solid;"

Answer 13

Keith, I don't know. I spent 30 or so cubes to retry that question, so it's not like I didn't try any solutions. I even went back and copied the "solution" from the lesson before the question, and I still got it wrong.

I understand that this might be confusing, as it was for me as well. However, telling me that I just have to read the lesson is negating the actual problem I have with the question.

I actually found another question in the course, where the question asks specifically for the "value" of a given property. However, the solution to that question is the entire property declaration.

My issue isn't with how the lessons are structured but the question itself.
I don't know why it works for you. I tried every single solution described in my OP and more. It. Didn't. Work.
I've reported it. I was using the web-client at the time, which might do something different I don't know, however, I can't tell you why it works for you but not for me. If I knew I wouldn't have posted this 🤷‍♂️