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

Posted by Adam Read
Adam Read
Courses Plus Student 317 Points

When trying to make the headline element green it says this is wrong h1 {color: green;} any reason why this could be?

<style>

h1 { color: green; }

</style> <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>

index.html 
<body>

  <Style>

   CSS 

  h1{

    color: green;

    }

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

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Adam,

You're pretty much there with that. You don't need to have the CSS name declared; the code should look like:

<body>
  <style>
    h1 { color: green; }
  </style>
    <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
</body>

I hope that helps.

Steve.