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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Test: Changing the Look of a Web Page

Posted by yuval saar
yuval saar
45 Points

can't change the color

can't change the color

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <h1>Welcome to Yuval's home Page!</h1>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
color: purple

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Yuval,

I see you've got the correct property and value to change the colour. But CSS also needs to know which element in your HTML document to make the change to. It does this by using what's called a selector.

A CSS style typically looks like this.

selector {
  property: value;
}

A selector, or group of selectors to which a style and value is applied and different styles are separated with a semi colon.

As you can see there's a Heading level 2 element in your document. That;s the element you ewant to change.

Use an element selector to change the colour of the text.

h2 {
  color: purple;
}