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

Posted by Ginger Fisher
Ginger Fisher
415 Points

Coloring h1

On how to make a website I'm getting an error that says, "Bummer! Make sure you're coloring the h1 tag green." Not sure why, can you help?

index.html 
<body>
   <style>
     {h1
     color; green:/}

  </style> 
  <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
</body>

1 Answer

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

The styling you added is off in a few places. Let's try to clean it up:

<style>
     {h1
     color; green:/}

  </style>

So, whenever you write css, you start with a selector. In this case, h1. After selecting the element you want to add styling to, you add styles within curly braces {}.

<style>
    h1 {

    }
</style>

Then, you add properties inside the curly braces to declare the individual styling to add: "color" for font color, "background-color" for background color, "text-align", "padding", "font-weight", etc..

For each property, you start with the property's name (in this case "color"), then a colon, then your value for the property (in this case "green"), then you close the property with a semi-colon.

<style>
    h1 {
        color: green;
    }
</style>

And that's how basic css styling works!

Ginger Fisher
Ginger Fisher
415 Points

I figured it out thanks for the help.