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Testing for conditions with not

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Testing for conditions with not

- [Instructor] Not is useful for testing when a condition is not met. It applies to the portion of the media query it immediately proceeds. It does not apply to all of the tests in a complex media query. Interestingly, not must also be used with a media type like all, screen, print, or speech as part of its test. So, here's the same example we've been using all through this course, let's write a really quick media query using not that's really easy to understand. So if I said at media not print. All right, so if it's not print, do the stuff. And I'm just going to copy in these last four styles that I've already written here. They control the colors of those icons there on that page. And I'm going to drop them here inside of the media query. So basically I'm saying, if I'm not printing, show this color. Pretty straightforward. If I go ahead and save that, and then take a look at this in full page view, and then click…

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