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Footer color

I put the code for the CSS footer color and it just won't show. I picked pink but the footer color won't show pink, but black.

4 Answers

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <style> footer { color: pink; }

</style>

This is the piece I wrote...

try background-color

Thanks! A strip of pink is across the footer, but the text itself isn't pink.

try

footer p {
  color: pink;
}

Oh it's the text you want pink. In that case color: pink; should work but if it doesn't maybe try doing that on the the tag that contains the text