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

Posted by bill ware
bill ware
152 Points

how do I set the hi element to green?

css question

index.html 
<body>

<style>
  { <h1>

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

</body>

2 Answers

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points
Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hey bill ware,

You are very close with your code there! But, a key thing to remember when writing CSS Is that you don't include the < or > for your selectors. And be sure to set your { after the h1 and the ending } after you've declared everything you want to declare.

So, what you should end up is something like this:

h1 {
  color: green;
}

Happy coding, Bill! :)

jeremie singler
jeremie singler
4,569 Points
jeremie singler
jeremie singler
4,569 Points

Of you want To do it inline , just set 

<h1 style="color:green;"> this title will  BE Green </h1>

hope this Will help

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hey Jeremie,

I edited your code so it would render on the forums here. The best way to post code is to do as the Markdown Cheatsheet says, by wrapping it with 3 backticks. You can see how that's done in the image below.

Also, this is for a challenge that wants a specific answer, and an inline style here won't work unfortunately.

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