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CSS

Posted by yishan bai
yishan bai
4,116 Points

can't change background color despite adding declaration into #logo

hi, i have added 

#logo{
    text-align:center;
    margin:0;
    background-color:orange;
}

please note the 3rd declaration, but the background color doesn't change at all, while the other two declaration(text-align, margin) work fine, can anyone help plz??can't figure out the reason. Thx a lot!!!

  <a href="index.html" id="logo">
       <h1>Sarah  B</h1>
       <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
yishan bai
yishan bai
4,116 Points

@Marcin Lisewski

Thanks for your help, but it still doesn't work...

1 Answer

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

Hi Yishan, your #logo element a is an inline element by default. If you had other inline content inside it then a background color would show for that content. However as both nested elements (H1 and H2) are block level elements the background is not showing up.

You can solve this by making the a element a block (or inline-block) as well, as in this codepen example. You may want to set a width depending on the design you are going for.

yishan bai
yishan bai
4,116 Points

Thank you so much Tom!!i hope when the course progresses,it will touch on these topics, just couldn't figure out the reason.this matter has bothered me for a few hours...such a relief, now i can move on...thanks again