Adding effects to layers

As you can clearly see by looking at the Layers panel--in this file here called…layers_2, I will just reveal the contents of these layers--…we can see that we actually have things that are inside of layers.…In other words, the same way that we think about groups being some kind of a…container inside of Illustrator and I have contents inside those containers,…obviously layers are kind of these uber-containers.…They contain groups and objects inside of them.…Now we've already seen that we can apply attributes to groups themselves, to containers.…We can add drop shadows.…

We can add strokes to groups themselves.…Can we also add those kinds of elements to layers?…The answer is, absolutely.…Now here is the thing about Illustrator.…We already learned this concept about Smart Targeting.…We know that when we click on something, Illustrator tries to figure out what it…is that we want to target and targets that for us.…So if I have a group selected, Illustrator automatically targets the group,…figuring that if I want to add a Live Effect I want that Live Effect to be…