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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Test: Changing the Look of a Web Page

Mark Acquaye
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Mark Acquaye
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Mark Acquaye
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 57 Points

How would do you change the colour of h1 tags

I am trying to change the colour of the h1 text in the Introduction to html task but i am having some difficulty with this.

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

    <h1>Welcome to My Web Page!</h1> Purple

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
<h1>{
  color: Purple;

2 Answers

Tej Kahlon
Tej Kahlon
8,573 Points
Tej Kahlon
Tej Kahlon
8,573 Points

Please use this format in CSS:

h1 { color: purple; }

Jack Spangenberg
Jack Spangenberg
643 Points
Jack Spangenberg
Jack Spangenberg
643 Points

To add on to Tej's answer, there are two ways to do this.

1 (CSS):

h1 {
    color: purple;
}

2 (HTML):

<h1 style="color: purple;">TEXT HERE</h1>