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

Posted by TIEN PHAM
TIEN PHAM
429 Points

how do I set the color of the h1 element to green

i did exactly as the video but the result is wrong

index.html 
<h1>

  <style> 
     h1 {}
    color: blue; 
  Nick Pettit</h1>
    h1 {
priyanka dash
priyanka dash
5,340 Points
priyanka dash
priyanka dash
5,340 Points

The way you have written is not correct.you must seprate the style from tag.You can put style with tag like inline style that is
<h1 style="color:blue;">Nick Pettit </h1> or Inside <head> <style> h1 { color:blue; } </style> </head> OR you can write a separate css file and link it inside head tag. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Unfortunately it's not quite right.

Inside the style element you need to write a CSS style rule to select the h1 element and change its colour.

The basic structure of a CSS style rule is as follows

selector {
   property: value
}

So there are 3 main parts. The element you want to target (the selector), the property and its value.

So to change the colour of the h1 element you'd do.

h1 {
   color: green;
}

Good luck.

Peaches Stubbs
Peaches Stubbs
21,320 Points
Peaches Stubbs
Peaches Stubbs
21,320 Points

What Jonathan said is correct. The only thing that I would add is if you do it that way all h1 elements on the page will be green. What I usually do is create a class, then attach that class to the elements that I want to have those particular features.