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Adam Stevens
Adam Stevens
237 Points
Posted by Adam Stevens
Adam Stevens
237 Points

Cannot change the footer Colour

Hi All, I've followed the advice in previous posts, but still cannot change the footer colour. I'm sure i'm missing something obvious, please can someone help. Thank you! Adam

3 Answers

James Kim
James Kim
8,475 Points
James Kim
James Kim
8,475 Points

if you can post the code that will be great, but to change the footer color is simply like this...

footer{
    background-color: "color"
}
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Your selectors change the text color of the paragraph element in the footer - that works fine. Your text is orange.

What issue are you seeing?

Steve.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Your code changes the color property twice. 

    <style>
      footer p {
        color: green;
      }
      footer p {
        color: orange;
      }
    </style>

First, you change the p element inside the footer to green, then to orange. This is the text colour that you're changing - and that works fine. It displays as orange as that is the last colour applied to it.

If you want the background to change, then proceed as James suggests and use the background-color selector. But you may want to omit the p element else you might not get exactly what you expect.

Steve.

Adam Stevens
Adam Stevens
237 Points
Adam Stevens
Adam Stevens
237 Points

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply Steve & James. All is fine now, I relaunched the workspace and the preview displays the footer colour.

Thanks again for your replies!

Adam

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

No problem! :-)