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

Posted by paulhoo
paulhoo
221 Points

"Make sure you are coloring the h1 green"

"<body>

<style>

{
h1 color: green;
}

</style>

<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>

</body>"

I dont understand what is Wrong here.

index.html 
<body>

  <style>

    {
    h1 color: green;
    }

  </style>

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

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Paul.

Unfortunately you haven't got your syntax for your CSS quite right.

What you want is to have your CSS selector first before you open the curly braces.

h1 { 
 color: green;
}

It goes, selector { property : value }

Good luck :-)

paulhoo
paulhoo
221 Points
paulhoo
paulhoo
221 Points

Thank you so much :-)

Have a good day !