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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Dale Ribeiro
Dale Ribeiro
4,820 Points
Posted by Dale Ribeiro
Dale Ribeiro
4,820 Points

background color is not changing

I put in all the code, correctly, I think, and the background color will not change from white to the green. Am I missing something?

a { color: #6ab47b; }

h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

nav { background: #599a68; }

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

1 Answer

Jeff Wolfram
Jeff Wolfram
10,490 Points
Jeff Wolfram
Jeff Wolfram
10,490 Points

should be nav { background-color: #599a68; }

frontend
frontend
15,619 Points

Are you trying to change the background color of the whole document? If so, you have to target the body. It looks like your nav should be fine as there really is no difference between background and background-color(at least not that I'm aware of, it's just shorthand), although I do see you've repeated yourself by typing 'nav a' twice.