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

How do I add a class called "main-pg" to a paragraph element?

I reactivated my account and I am a bit rusty.

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

    <p>My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css

3 Answers

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points

I suggest rewatching the lessons. They'll most certainly go over this.

What have you tried so far?

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

Okay I see, <p class="main-pg">. Thanks for the help.

Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points

Any time! Check out the Markdown Cheatsheet so you can format you code all cool and stuff! ??

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points

So close! Because class is an HTML element attribute, it must (sorta) scoped to it. That means it must be fully enclosed within that element. Just plop that class part within the <p> tag and you're good to go! Here's an example:

<element class="example">Content goes here ...<element>

Hope this helps! Keep at it!