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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Test: Changing the Look of a Web Page

Posted by Pavneet Bolena
Pavneet Bolena
983 Points

I don't understand the question

It is telling me to change the color and i don't know how to do it?

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

    <h1><tag>Welcome to My Web Page!</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
{h1: color; purple}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

You have several syntax errors.

And apparently, the challenge did not detect the ones in task 1. Let's start with that — you have:

    <h1><tag>Welcome to My Web Page!</p>

First, "<tag>" is not a real tag and does not belong in there. Then, when you change a tag you need to modify both ends (open and close) so they match. You forgot to change the end tag (</p>) and the challenge didn't notice. So the line with correct syntax would be:

    <h1>Welcome to My Web Page!</h1>

Then, for task 2 you have this CSS:

{h1: color; purple}

All the parts are there, but the punctuation is scrambled. The tag name should come before the brace, the colon goes between the property name and value, and the semicolon should go after the value. Then it would look like this:

h1 { color: purple; }

And at that point, it should pass the challenge (legitimately!).