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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Posted by Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

I am trying to apply a different color to the nav element in the header, but it won't change color.

I typed the same code which was given, only slightly changing the actual color.

Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

nav a, nav a:visited {color: #fff0ff;}

6 Answers

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points
Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points

The portion of the CSS you posted looks correct to me. It's possible there could be an error somewhere else in the code. I will often forget a semicolon or bracket somewhere that can mess up the rest of the code. I've also forgotten to save the file before...haha.

Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

Well, I did realize that I had placed the class="selected" in the wrong part of the html, but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

Wait.....

Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points
Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

I noticed a single missing bracket that wasn't allowing any code after it to apply. Thanks for the help!

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points
Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points

Would you mind posting the code so we could take a look and see what happened?

Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points
Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

The same thing just happened with another bit of code, and I noticed that the text is blue instead of black.

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points
Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points

Looks like you may have a typo in your pseudo class tag. You have "nag" instead of "nav". Try fixing that and see if it works.

Thomas Offutt
Thomas Offutt
343 Points

Woops, that was just autocorrect in the comment. I have "nav a" in the actual code.

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points
Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points

Anytime! Debugging is just part of the process and can definitely be frustrating, especially at the beginning! We all make those mistakes and you'll quickly learn the common ones.