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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Portfolio

Josh Trill
Josh Trill
4,867 Points
Posted by Josh Trill
Josh Trill
4,867 Points

I am not sure why the paragraphs in my list are showing gray...

This is my mark-up. I feel really silly, and maybe it is too late to be studying, but I have no idea why my text is showing up gray rather than green in my listed paragraphs... I thought that (#gallery li: #color: #bdc3c7;) would change it to green... ? what am I missing here?

/***************************************
                GENERAL
****************************************/

  body {
    font-family: 'Open-Sans', sans-serif;
  }

  #wrapper {
    margin: 0 auto;
    max-width: 940px;
    padding: 0 5%;
  }

  a {
    text-decoration: none;
  }


  img {
    max-width: 100%;
  }

/*removing bullets ********************/
  ul {
   list-style-type: none; 
  }




/***************************************
              HEADING
****************************************/


  #logo {
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0;
  }

  h1 {
 font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
  }

h2 {
  font-size: .75em;
  margin: -5 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
  }



/***************************************
              NAVIGATION
****************************************/

  nav {
    text-align: center;
    padding: 10px 0;
    margin: 20px 0 0;
  }



/***************************************
              FOOTER
****************************************/

footer {
    font-size: 0.75em;
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 50px;
    color: #ccc;
  }

/***************************************
              PAGE:PORTFOLIO
****************************************/
 #gallery {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
}

 #gallery li {
    float: left;
    width: 45%;
    margin: 2.5%;
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
    color: #bdc3c7;

}



/***************************************
              COLORS
****************************************/

/*site body ***************************/
  body {
    color: #fff; 
  }

/*green header ************************/
  header {
   background: #6ab47b;
   border-color: #599a68;
  }

/*nav background on mobile devices ***/
  nav {
   background: #599a68;
   font-weight: bold;
  }

/*logo text **************************/
  h1, h2 {
   color: #fff; 
  }

/*links *****************************/
  a {
   color: #6ab47b;
  }

/*nav link *************************/
  nav a, nav a:visited {
   color: #fff;
  }

/*selected nav link *****************/
  nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
    color: #32673f;
  }
Josh Trill
Josh Trill
4,867 Points
Josh Trill
Josh Trill
4,867 Points

I just realized that there are snapshots... here it is, rather than digging through my soup of css https://w.trhou.se/4g8qkt3jtc

1 Answer

Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

To target the text I think you need this code

gallery li a p {

margin: 0; padding: 5%; font-size: .75em; color: #bdc3c7;