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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by paul kavuma
paul kavuma
3,610 Points

how do i change the color of the h1 element to green?

not sure if am just failing to understand what h1 element is but am trying to change the color the way have done the firsts ones and its not working.

index.html 
<h1>style</h1>
<style>

  h1 {
    color: blue: 
  }

  <style>

  h1 {
    color: blue: 
  }

</style>
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>

1 Answer

Michael Lauridsen
Michael Lauridsen
10,321 Points
Michael Lauridsen
Michael Lauridsen
10,321 Points

Hi Paul,

The problem seems that you opened the <style> tag twice, but only closed it once. Also, when you end a CSS selector, you should use a semicolon instead. I can also see that you targeted the h1 twice, luckily with CSS this does not matter, since it's cascading, the last selector will overwrite the first one.

As a side note, generally you want to put your style tags or stylesheets in top of the document. This is to prevent the html content from loading before it is styled. The reason is that the user would see a short glimpse of the unstyled html in some cases.

If you want to turn the h1 element green as in the challenge, this should do it:

<style>
  h1 {
    color: green;
  }
</style>
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>