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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Halie Montgomery
Halie Montgomery
422 Points

how to.. (css)

pretty simple question. I know there must be a simple, easy explanation. How do I create a rule for .main-pg class in a css file?

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <p class="main-pg">My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
p {
  color:blue

1 Answer

pcachia
pcachia
14,454 Points

Hi Halie,

First, Make sure to close your curly braces and end each property with a semi-colon ;

Your answer would target all <p> tags in your HTML file. 

p {
  color:blue;
}

To target a class you start with a dot . So if you would want to target the class main-pg:

<p class="main-pg">My text goes here.</p>
<p class="main-pg">My other text goes here.</p>
<p class="main-pg">And another text goes here.</p>

This example targets all <p> tags because they all have the same class.

.main-pg {
  color:blue;
}

Also sometimes you would need to target a tag with an id (let's name it myId as an example). To target an ID tag you would use #

<p id="myId">My text goes here.</p>
<p id="otherId">My other text goes here.</p>
<p id="anotherId">And another text goes here.</p>

This example targets only the first <p> tag.

#myId {
  color:blue;
}

I hope this helps.

There are many more ways to target your HTML content.