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

Posted by aquiyama clausell
aquiyama clausell
172 Points

how do you write the css that will select the h1

I don't know it

index.html 
<body>
    <h1>element and a </h1>
</body> elemnt. add a <style> element just above the <h1>
Gregory Buhler
Gregory Buhler
2,277 Points

Hey Aquiyama,

Your coding up in the box was a little confusing but I figured out what you were trying to say in it.

To specify css, it needs to be within the head portion of your text so it would look like so:

<head>
    <style>
        /* style selectors here */
        h1 { color: blue; }
    </style>
</head>

Then your main body would look like so

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

So altogether it would look like 

<head>
    <style>
        h1 { color: blue; }
    </style>
</head>

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

1 Answer

Jeremy Woodbridge
Jeremy Woodbridge
25,278 Points
Jeremy Woodbridge
Jeremy Woodbridge
25,278 Points

To write css for this you want to write the selector which in this case you want to select the 'h1' element. So what we do is we write h1 { property: value }. Here is an Example h1 { color: white; }