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CSS

Posted by Walter Creamer
Walter Creamer
Courses Plus Student 2,485 Points

Body Selector CSS

I don't know what I'm doing incorrect. Please help.

Select the body of the page. Set its background color to lightblue.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSS Selectors</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="cc1-main-styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
<body>
  <div class="container">
        <h1><em>Hello</em> World!</h1>
            <p>
                <em>Lorem ipsum dolor</em> sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc pulvinar consequat tortor, nec venenatis erat elementum scelerisque. Curabitur sit amet risus nisi. Aenean aliquet euismod augue at viverra. Ut varius arcu in lorem iaculis ullamcorper. Integer eu rutrum quam.
            </p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

style.css

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.container {
  background:lightblue;
}

7 Answers

Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ihyqw :)

Steve Leichman
Steve Leichman
7,008 Points
Steve Leichman
Steve Leichman
7,008 Points

First, if the Code Challenge has one, make sure you're in the style.css page.

Second, you should be able to select the whole body and change its color with:

body { background: lightblue; }

In this case, selecting the .container class happens to also select everything in the body, but if you added divs above or below, then only the .container div would be affected. They want the whole body regardless of divs. (These early lessons were really frustrating with not telling you what you were doing wrong. I feel your pain.)

Hopefully this helps!

Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points
Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points

Try this!

body {background-color:lightblue;}
Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points
Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points

It wants you to use body instead of .container. :) Both work, but I think it pays more attention to syntax than results! Hope that helps!

Walter Creamer
Walter Creamer
Courses Plus Student 2,485 Points

Can you edit my codepen link and repost the link? That way I can see exactly what you mean. Thank you. :)

Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points
Geneva Nemzek
Geneva Nemzek
1,957 Points

Oh gosh, anytime! We've all been there. :)

Walter Creamer
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Walter Creamer
Courses Plus Student 2,485 Points
Walter Creamer
Walter Creamer
Courses Plus Student 2,485 Points

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/DljIK

This is what I've been doing and the background has changed successfully each time but it's incorrect according to the lesson. Sorry the original post didn't come out correct.

Walter Creamer
PLUS
Walter Creamer
Courses Plus Student 2,485 Points
Walter Creamer
Walter Creamer
Courses Plus Student 2,485 Points

Oh snap. So obvious it hurts.

NOT .body {} body{}

Thank you both! Thanks for being so very patient with me Geneva.