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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Portfolio

Posted by Mary Sutherland
Mary Sutherland
688 Points

Why is my css selector highlighted red?

Why are the css selectors in my workspace are highlighted red?

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

can you post your code

5 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you have an opening brace instead of a closing one after the img selector:

img {
  max-width: 100%
    { /*this needs to be a closing brace */

fix that

img {
  max-width: 100%
    }
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

It might be a syntax error. For example, if you're missing a curly brace at the end of declaration block, the selectors after that missing brace would be highlighted red.

Mary Sutherland
Mary Sutherland
688 Points

The #logo, h1, and h2, are highlighted red. Since this appeared my styling has disappeared when I preview through workspace. 

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

h1 {
  font-family: 'Vollkorn', serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: -5px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

Do you have other rules in your css? If so, could you post all css?

Mary Sutherland
Mary Sutherland
688 Points

This is everything.

/**************
GENERAL
**************/

body {
font-family: 'Cuprum': sans-serif;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%
    {

/**************
HEADING
**************/

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

h1 {
  font-family: 'Vollkorn', serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: -5px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}

/**************
NAVIGATION
**************/

nav {
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}



/**************
FOOTER
**************/

footer {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align: center;
  padding-top; 50px;
  color: #ccc;
}



/**************
Page: Portfolio
**************/

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

#gallery li {
        float: left;
        width: 45%;
        background-color: #f5f5f5;
        color: #bdc3c7;
      }

/**************
Colors
**************/


/* site body */
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color:#999;
}

/* green header */
header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}

/* nav background on mobile */
nav {
 background-color:#599a68;
}

/* LOGO TEXT */
h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

/* link */
a{
 color: #6ab47b;
}

nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

/* selected nav link */
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}
Mary Sutherland
Mary Sutherland
688 Points
Mary Sutherland
Mary Sutherland
688 Points

Thank you! That definitely fixed it.

Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

At the end of img {max-width: 100%, and right before the comment line for HEADING you mistyped an opening curly brace instead of a closing curly brace.

Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

Sorry, didn't see that Stone already answered.