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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Classes in CSS

Posted by michela parrillo
michela parrillo
416 Points

I cannot change the color of the header

I tab this but they remain green, when I tab nav a, nothing happen a{ color:#6ab46b; }

header{ background:#6ab46b; border-color:#599a68; }

h1,h2{ color:#fff; }

nav{ background: #599a68; }

nav a, nav a: visited; { color:#fff; }

Michael Hicks
Michael Hicks
23,977 Points

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2 Answers

Sergi Beltran
Sergi Beltran
18,493 Points
Sergi Beltran
Sergi Beltran
18,493 Points

Can you paste your HTML?

James Home
James Home
12,011 Points
James Home
James Home
12,011 Points 
nav a, nav a: visited; { color:#fff; }

Looks like you've made a typo adding a ";" after the visited and before the {, which could possibly prevent the browser from understanding the CSS.

Also try removing the space between a: and visited.