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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by DAVID CASPER
DAVID CASPER
213 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 3 write a css selector can you help set color to green example, please?

i got... index.html

  1. <style><style/> 2.<h1>Dave Casper<h1/>

..... how do i set text color to green?

DAVID CASPER
DAVID CASPER
213 Points

A button to re-watch video would be great here.

2 Answers

Carsten Dollerup
Carsten Dollerup
9,278 Points
Carsten Dollerup
Carsten Dollerup
9,278 Points

Not sure what your question is, but I'll try: The style tags are opened and closed before the html tags, as the browser needs to know how to style the h1-element before actually reading it. So the code would look like this (in line 1):

<style> h1 { color:green ;} </style>
Angela Visnesky
Angela Visnesky
20,927 Points
Angela Visnesky
Angela Visnesky
20,927 Points 
<style>
  h1 {
    color: green;
  }
</style>
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>