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

Posted by Tevin Mugo
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Tevin Mugo
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,649 Points

Give the paragraph a border that is 4px wide, solid and red.?

Give the paragraph a border that is 4px wide, solid and red.?

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 
<body>
.main-pg{
  text-align:center;
    border:solid 4px red;

2 Answers

glasscheck
glasscheck
7,302 Points
glasscheck
glasscheck
7,302 Points

the styles.css file, remove body tag and add a curly brace to the end

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

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

This is a duplicate of this other question that I already answered.

But the issue is that you somehow got a stray HTML tag ("<body>") in your CSS file. Remove that and you should pass the challenge.

And you should always close rule blocks (with an end brace "}").