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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Posted by ronald brown
ronald brown
2,867 Points

trying to change the caption text color in css to a non default color and it is not working. could it be my background

trying to change the caption text color in css to a non default color and it is not working. could it be my background. Can anybody help me?

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

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

img {
  max-width:100%;
}

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

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: Change One, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

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

8gallery li a p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

1 Answer

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

You don't need that final css declaration, add your text color change to #gallery li just under your background color.