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CSS CSS Basics Basic Selectors ID and Class Selectors

Posted by Ida Gashi
Ida Gashi
828 Points

how schould i do this plz target experience with an ID selector. Add a background-color property and set the value to li

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Developer Diane: Resume</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main>
    <header class="main-header"></header>
      <div>
        <h1 class="main-heading">Developer Diane: Resume</h1>
        <address>
          <p>website: developerdiane.com</p>
          <p>email: diane@developerdiane.com</p>
        </address>
        <img src="developer-diane.jpg" alt="Developer Diane coding on her laptop.">
      </div>
    </header>          
   <section id= #"experience" background-color: lightsteelblue; >  
  <h2>experience</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <h3>Super Web Design Shop</h3>
          <p>Junior Developer</p>
          <p class="date special">February 2020-present</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <h3>Pretty Good Websites, Inc.</h3>
          <p>Web Development Intern</p>
          <p>July 2019-January 2020</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>Ā©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
  </main>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-header {
 background-color: orange;
}
.main-heading {
  font-size: 72px;
}
#main-content {
   background-color: lightsteelblue;
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

You already have an ID selector in your CSS, but it's for "main-content" instead of "experience". Just change the name to fulfill the instructions.

But you also have 3 errors (on 2 lines) in the HTML:

    <header class="main-header"></header>
<!--                            ^^^^^^^^^                                          -->
<!--                            this ending tag wasn't part of the instructions    -->

<!--           these 2 characters aren't part of the syntax                        -->
<!--           vv                                                                  -->
   <section id= #"experience" background-color: lightsteelblue; >  
<!--                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                   -->
<!--                          this is CSS code and should not also be here         -->
Ida Gashi
Ida Gashi
828 Points

Thank you Steven Parker