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

coloring the h1 tag green.

<body> <style> .h1 { color:green;
} </style> <h1>Nick Pettit</h1> </body>

My above code says its wrong. But why.

2 Answers

David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points

if you are selecting an h1 header tag, you do not put the period in front of it. that is used when selecting classes. so you should have h1 { color:green }

Got it. Thanks David Curtis.