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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

can't change the colour of of the <h1> TAG on html

hi

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

    <p>Welcome to My Web Page!</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css

Mohamad Fadhli Ismail
Mohamad Fadhli Ismail
11,935 Points

You haven't put any h1 tags in there

HTML

<body>
<h1>Your heading</h1>
</body>

CSS

h1 {
color: red;
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

It doesn't look like you've written any code yet.

At least give it a "good-faith" attempt.

If you're totally stuck, the "HTML paragraph tag" is the thing that looks like this :point_right: <p>

Also remember when you change a tag, you should also change the corresponding ending tag.

Alexander Alegre
Alexander Alegre
14,340 Points

It does not seem that you have written any CSS or have any H1 tags. just add H1 tags on the html document and on your styles.css add h1 {color: red;} and switch red to whatever color you'd like. You can also use hex, rgb or rgba to get a more exact color. That will style all of the H1 tags on the document, if you only want to style a specific one give it an id or a class and on the CSS switch h1 with #id or .class

Hope this helped.