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

Posted by M J Bowley
M J Bowley
980 Points

How do I give a paragraph a border that is 4px, solid and red? Than you.

Everything I am doing seems to be wrong

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <P class=main-pg /P>
      <P My amazing website/p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.main-pg {
  <p border:width 4px;
  :solid;
: red ; /p>
}

2 Answers

martinjones1
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree seal-36
martinjones1
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 44,819 Points

you would first need to update the HTML to that below, note the P tag usage and the quote marks around the class

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p class="main-pg">My amazing website</p>
  </body>
</html>

The for the CSS, you only need to target the class name, since this is already attached to the Paragraph element. The CSS shorthand is:

.main-pg {
 border: 4px solid red;
}
M J Bowley
M J Bowley
980 Points
M J Bowley
M J Bowley
980 Points

Hi. Thank you very much for your help