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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Josh Ross
Josh Ross
7,151 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 3 Add a class called "main-pg" to the paragraph element. Not sure how to complete this task

Please provide some instruction on getting past this task

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

    <p> </a>"My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css

4 Answers

hossein forouzanfar
hossein forouzanfar
10,400 Points
hossein forouzanfar
hossein forouzanfar
10,400 Points

Hi, you can add classes to an element by typing class="" , with the name of the class inside quotation marks. for this example it could be like this: <p class="main-pg">My amazing website</p>

Charles Crowder
Charles Crowder
748 Points
Charles Crowder
Charles Crowder
748 Points

This is the answer that I got also. However Task 2 has me stuck. From the video it says. Create a css rule for .main-pg inside of class. Help.

hossein forouzanfar
hossein forouzanfar
10,400 Points
hossein forouzanfar
hossein forouzanfar
10,400 Points

you need to write: .main-pg {

} inside of style.css file to make rules for main-pg class.

kevin rivera
kevin rivera
236 Points
kevin rivera
kevin rivera
236 Points

i am stuck on the same thing and doesnt make no sense... i have tried the above... can someone jump in and help me out