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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Use ID Selectors

Posted by John Purcell
John Purcell
Courses Plus Student 416 Points

I cant get my back ground to change to orange and i don't know why?

https://w.trhou.se/teyyfd78h4

something funny is going on. My workspace has also been saved!

1 Answer

Christopher van Ruitenbeek
Christopher van Ruitenbeek
13,705 Points
Christopher van Ruitenbeek
Christopher van Ruitenbeek
13,705 Points

Edit

I found the problem..

The stylesheet you are linking to (on the index.html page) is in the main directory. But you are linking to a stylesheet in the css/ directory.

Move your stylesheet to the right folder and it works.

-- Your workspace always gets saved.

The code you put in looks right.

To change the body element color you use:

body {
  background: orange;

/* or */

background-color: orange;
}