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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Add Fonts

cordarro gordon
cordarro gordon
621 Points
Posted by cordarro gordon
cordarro gordon
621 Points

Apply font family to a h1 element

/* In your CSS, apply your font to the first level headline using font-family. Include a sans-serif fallback.*/

/Ok this my Css code. Im sure this is rigth8/

h1 h2 h3 h4 h5{ font:"Roboto" sans-serif; }

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}
/* In your CSS, apply your font to the first level headline using font-family. Include a sans-serif fallback.*/

/*Ok this my Css code. Im sure this is rigth8*/

h1 h2 h3 h4 h5{
  font:"Roboto" sans-serif;
}

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Cordarro, Welcome to Treehouse.

You have included the file link correctly in the HTML. However, there are a could things wrong with your CSS declaration.

First, the Challenge want you to target only the top level headline, which is the <h1> (not all the way down to 6)

Second, unless the name of the font includes spaces in the official name, you cannot use quotation marks around the name.

The corrected code will look like this:

h1 {
  font: Roboto, sans-serif;
}

Hope this help to make sense. Keep Coding! :)

Jeff Chabot
Jeff Chabot
5,727 Points
Jeff Chabot
Jeff Chabot
5,727 Points

this is what I've tried, none seem to pass:

h1 { font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; }

h1 { font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; }

h1 { font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; }

can anyone help so I can move on?

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Jeff,

In the CSS you can only use font as the rule (see my example above).

Second, did you add the link in the HTML file for the google font you want to use?

If you look at the above HTML, you will see the line

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

So add that line of HTML and my line of CSS and it will pass.

:dizzy: