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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;}
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

This is the third duplicate of the same question.

2 Answers

Jon Myzzle
Jon Myzzle
6,279 Points
Jon Myzzle
Jon Myzzle
6,279 Points

Hey there Tevin!

So, everything looks good in your code except for a few things! See below for the solution and an explanation!

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

So a few issues with the code snippet you posted. Inside your .css document you have <body> listed. This is an HTML tag and does not need to be added into the .css document. When you use the ".main-pg" selector, you are saying, "Hey CSS, i want you to style this class with the following properties and values!"

The second problem, is inside of your declarations, you have it written as:

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

There should be a space between the property and the value. Whenever you style CSS, use the following format (spaces should be included):

selector {
  property: value;
}

I hope this helps, if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask!!

Cheers, and Happy Coding! :beers:

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

This is the third duplicate of this other question and this one.

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 "}").