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Posted by Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright
2,965 Points

HTML Basic Course - CSS Styling Problem

I have completed the Basic HTML/CSS pieces and am on the final challenge for the "Bakin" website.

It tells me to ID Copyright and add the border.

I do this as:

#copyright {
    border-top: 8px, solid, #2A0400
}

Then it tells me that I am wrong and to ID the class tag with a #.

? Did I not clearly ID the class id with the #copyright?

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

With what you posted there isn't a #, but that might be a forum formatting issue. Make sure you are using the # on the copyright selector.

Also, you forgot your semi colon.

Keith Doyle
Keith Doyle
25,973 Points
Keith Doyle
Keith Doyle
25,973 Points

There also shouldn't be commas separating the border attributes.

border-top: 8px solid #2A0400;
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Good catch

rilwan shinaba
rilwan shinaba
Courses Plus Student 3,909 Points

hmmm

Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright
2,965 Points
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright
2,965 Points

Clearly I did not write this properly. The point wasn't what was inside of the brackets, the point was I have identified the copyright class ID with a hashtag in my answer, and it is telling me that I haven't.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

If you didn't enter the the syntax correctly, it's going to throw an error. The error messages are not exact. If you put the comma's in there, or forgot the semicolon, it likely told you the copyright id was not set. It has to be perfect or it'll throw an error.

I just went back and did the code challenge and passed on this code.

#copyright {
     border-top: 8px solid #2a0400;
  }
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright
2,965 Points
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright
2,965 Points

I logged out, logged back in and copy and pasted what I had earlier placed. It worked. :-)