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

Brandon Ficklin
Brandon Ficklin
545 Points
Posted by Brandon Ficklin
Brandon Ficklin
545 Points

How I set the border color?

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

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

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

2 Answers

Nicole Antonino
Nicole Antonino
12,834 Points
Nicole Antonino
Nicole Antonino
12,834 Points

You are mistyping your selector in your CSS. Assuming you want to style the paragraph element, then just target it's class of "main-pg." So take away the ".my-"

Should look like this:

.main-pg {
border: 4px solid red;
}
Fran ADP
Fran ADP
6,304 Points
Fran ADP
Fran ADP
6,304 Points

put main.pg not .my.-main.jpg