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

Posted by stephanielong
stephanielong
112 Points

how to write the style tags

hello, i am just starting out. i can't figure out how to write the style tags correctly here...Thanks

index.html 
<style>
  h1{}

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

2 Answers

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

The style tag goes inside the body tag like so (note that both these tags need to be closed with their corresponding closing tags):

<body>
<style>
</style>
</body>

Your CSS should go inside your style tag

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

And your html should go outside the style tag, but still inside the body tag.

<body>
<style>
h1 {
color:blue;
}
</style>
<h1>This is part of the HTML inside the body, but not inside the style tag</h1>
</body>
Tyheem Registe
Tyheem Registe
6,810 Points
Tyheem Registe
Tyheem Registe
6,810 Points

You can add styles to your html in three ways in-line which is:

<p style="color: red">text</p>

Internal which is what your trying to do:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS Example</title>
<style>
   p { 
       color: red;
}
a {
     color: green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

and finally External:

p {
    color: red;
}

a {
    color: blue;
}

Hope this helps you! : )