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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Ralph Gilliam
Ralph Gilliam
461 Points

CSS not allowing editing?

this challenge task requires that i make the border color red. I did so, and i cannot see an error in my code, however the task is refusing to be completed.

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <p class="main-pg">My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.main-pg {

}

.p {
  border: solid 4px red;
}

1 Answer

Ivan Bagaric
PLUS
Ivan Bagaric
Courses Plus Student 12,356 Points
Ivan Bagaric
Ivan Bagaric
Courses Plus Student 12,356 Points

do it like this:

.main-pg {
  border: 4px solid red;
}

you don't have to do for every paragraph, it will add border just on paragraph with this class