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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Thomas Cohrs
Thomas Cohrs
Courses Plus Student 358 Points

What am I doing wrong? Trying to add a class to the paragraph tag: <p class="main-pg"> My amazing website</p>

What am I doing wrong? Trying to add a class to the paragraph tag: <p class="main-pg"> My amazing website</p>

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

    <p> class="main-pg"> My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css

3 Answers

Raffael Dettling
Raffael Dettling
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Raffael Dettling
Raffael Dettling
32,999 Points

You got a > to much the class isn´t inside the p tag^^

<p class="main-pg"> My amazing website</p>
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Oddly enough, the code in your question is correct, but it doesn't match what's in the challenge. Take a closer look at the code posted in the black box in your question. There you have:

<p> class="main-pg"> My amazing website</p>

And your the code in your question is:

<p class="main-pg"> My amazing website</p>

Note the extra > immediately after the <p in the first version. This is causing the error. It's immediately closing the paragraph without assigning a class.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Thomas Cohrs
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Thomas Cohrs
Courses Plus Student 358 Points
Thomas Cohrs
Thomas Cohrs
Courses Plus Student 358 Points

I got it! Jeepers! Talk about just a little bit of variation can make a host of difference! Thank you all!