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

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101 Points

What am I missing

"<stlye> body { color: blue; } h1 { color: blue; } </stlye> <body> <h1>Scott Ohman</h1>

<p>I can't figure out why my text is not turning blue</p> </body>"

4 Answers

David Tonge
PLUS
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

The code looks correct, could you post some more code so we could get a sense of the overall context? I'm assuming you're asking this question for personal reasons because the challenge asks you to turn your text to green.

101 Points
101 Points

Thank you for replying. I enter the style code exactly as shown in the class for coloring the <h1>name</h1> and it did not change color. The next exercise was to add <body></body> and add a style code to color it. The program will not check this of fas complete. It gives me the message"bummer your forgot the style code. I can try just continuing on to the next class?

Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points
Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points

make sure that you put your style tag nested inside the body.<>

David Tonge
PLUS
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

I checked the code challenge and it asks you to set the h1 to green.

Above the h1 your code should look like:

<style>
h1{
color: green;
}
</style>
Brian Goldstein
Brian Goldstein
19,419 Points
Brian Goldstein
Brian Goldstein
19,419 Points

best practice is to put the style declarations in their own stylesheet, but for this exercise, David is right - you need to declare at the top of the document the style tag, put your rules inside of it, and close it (typically this goes inside the head tag). 

<!DOCTYPE html !>
<html>
<head>
<title>Brian G</title>
<style>
h1 { color: green;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Brian G</h1>
<p>Come on in!</p>
</body>
</html>