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

Josh Stone
Josh Stone
2,096 Points
Posted by Josh Stone
Josh Stone
2,096 Points

How do i set the element of h1 to green

<h1><style><h1> { h1 }

2 Answers

Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Hey Josh,

You have to make sure your stylesheet is properly linked, a way I test this is by writing an inline style block to test. To set your h1 globally to green you need to type this in your stylesheet, either inline or external:

Of course you can use hexadecimal values if you wish, a list of them can be found here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/color_value.

Also remember that to go out of your current directory the file is in you do ../ or /.

If this does not work, please post your code and I will do my best to help you.

h1 {
 color: green;
}

<html>
<head>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="pathtostylesheetfile">
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
</body>
</html>

Regards,

Richard.

Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Hey Josh,

also inline stylesheets, that is internal ones in a document either html or php are:

<html>
<head>
  <style>
   h1 {
       color: green;
  }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
</body>
</html>

Regards,

Richard.