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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Use ID Selectors

Lauren Stephenson
Lauren Stephenson
2,747 Points
Posted by Lauren Stephenson
Lauren Stephenson
2,747 Points

When changing the background color and previewing it is not working... I can not find my mistake! help

after adding main.css file and then changing background color to orange to test for if the file is listed right in the index.html document... i have it exactly as the video shows.... suggestions?

5 Answers

Lauren Stephenson
Lauren Stephenson
2,747 Points
Lauren Stephenson
Lauren Stephenson
2,747 Points

I think it was because I used uppercase letters for my CSS folder, so it was not directing the .css files I was adding... Does that sound correct?

Kristen Law
Kristen Law
16,244 Points

Yeah that sounds right, good catch! Glad you got it figured out

Kristen Law
Kristen Law
16,244 Points
Kristen Law
Kristen Law
16,244 Points

Can you post your code from your main.css file? Did you refresh the page after previewing it?

Make sure it is linked correctly within the <head> tags in your index.html file:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

And also make sure that the main.css file is under the css folder. Hope that helps!

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

Hey,

Would you mine posting the code that you used here? I'm interested in seeing the head area and probably you could explain your file structure.

<head></head>
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

Edit : I was writing this from my iPad around the same time Kristen Law posted her question. We're both interested in seeing the same thing to help you with your problem.