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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Type Selectors

Fedor Andreev
Fedor Andreev
6,438 Points

Confused? What is the difference between these two?

<style type="text/css"> h1 { color: white; background-color:#E14607 } </style> </head>

<body style="background-color: #ff0000;">

The style background and the body style background?

1 Answer

Daniel Schmid
Daniel Schmid
15,466 Points

color: means the font color or the color of the text and the background color is the color behind the text.