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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Take a Mobile-First Approach

Nikhil Khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal
9,371 Points
Posted by Nikhil Khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal
9,371 Points

Heading is not centered in CSS and code for body background color not working

I have made the div tag and heading anchor "logo", but when I write h1 {... text align center} it works, but not with

logo. Why

  1. I want to change the back ground color, padding , margins, but none of them are working?

Please help

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Nikhil Khandelwal |Designer </title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

</head>
<body>
    <header>
        <a href="index.html" id:"logo">
          <h1>Nikhil</h1>
          <h2>Designer</h2>
        </a> 
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about us.html">About Us</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
  <div id:"wrapper">
    <section>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"><img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""></a></li>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"><img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""></a></li>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"><img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""></a></li>
      </ul>
      <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <a href="http://facebook.com"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png"></a>
      <a href="http://twitter.com"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png"></a>
      <p>&copy; 2015 All Rights Reserved</p>
    </footer>
  </div>
</body>

</html>

2 Answers

Pete Cass
Pete Cass
16,656 Points
Pete Cass
Pete Cass
16,656 Points

Hey you're writing 

id:"logo"

you should be using an equals sign instead of a colon. like this. 

id = "logo"

Also when selecting an id in your css make sure you're using this syntax

#logo {
  your styling goes here;
}
Nikhil Khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal
9,371 Points
Nikhil Khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal
9,371 Points

Yup.. it worked now..:)

Thank you

jamesscott
jamesscott
4,432 Points
jamesscott
jamesscott
4,432 Points

It's the subtle stuff that always gets me!

= vs. :

Thanks for the help, Pete!!!

-jS