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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

susie oldaker
susie oldaker
802 Points

how to make a website, challenge question. wants me to change text and background colors to something other than defaul

chanllege question in how to make a website with css. It want's me to change the text and background colors to something other than default colors.

css/main.css
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: Changa One, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}
img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background:-color: #FFFF00;
  color: #FF0000;
}

1 Answer

Raúl Barrera C.
Raúl Barrera C.
18,943 Points

Hi, it's simple, just change some values on background-color and color properties. You can use values as "white", "red", "black". For example

#gallery li {
  background-color: black;
  color: white;
}