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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Take a Mobile-First Approach

Posted by Brandt Wilson
Brandt Wilson
1,108 Points

background color for some reason my preview does not show the orange background that is applied in the "div wrapper"

I think i applied the <div> operation exactly as you did. However, the modification is not appearing on my preview(even after refresh). i created the wrapper in the same way. Not sure what im doing wrong here...

is there something in the other css file that needs to be overridden in order to apply the background color?

2 Answers

Steven Horowitz
Steven Horowitz
6,966 Points
Steven Horowitz
Steven Horowitz
6,966 Points

Your wrapper div needs to have dimensions (ex. width) defined in your main.css file in order to display the background color that you've already declared. Do you have any dimension declarations for your wrapper?

Brandt Wilson
Brandt Wilson
1,108 Points
Brandt Wilson
Brandt Wilson
1,108 Points

Thank you for your reply. Actually i realized i hadnt yet created the link in the head.