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CSS

Posted by Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points

Is there a way to color the background panel of the select element that uses the option tag with it ?

I want to colour the background panel when i click on the the select button in my mark up.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,958 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,958 Points

Is this part of a workspace? If so, you can make a snapshot of your workspace and post the link to it here.

6 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,958 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,958 Points

Without seeing your code I can only be generic, but you can probably just add a background-color property to your select element. For example:

select { background-color: yellow; }

Please post or share a link to your code if you need more specific assistance.

Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points
Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points

no I am in the FEWD program to get a certification .. this is just one of the projects I am working on and I want to try to add that to my project , but I don't know how. I will post the css. and html

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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points

``css

select[name^="stat"] { -webkit-appearance: none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(114, 155, 130); border: none; border: 1px solid rgb(114, 155, 130); padding: 2px 15px; color: #fff; letter-spacing: .01em; font-size: 0.875rem; }

    select[name^="stat"]:hover {
        background-color: rgb(87,142, 140);
    }

   For the select button in my mark up.
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 select[name^="stat"] {
           -webkit-appearance: none;
           margin-top: 20px;
           margin-bottom: 10px;
           background-color: rgb(114, 155, 130);
           border: none;
           border: 1px solid rgb(114, 155, 130);
           padding: 2px 15px;
           color: #fff;
           letter-spacing: .01em;
           font-size: 0.875rem;
         }

        select[name^="stat"]:hover {
            background-color: rgb(87,142, 140);
        }

    ```css
Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points
Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
<title>THE CODE REVIEW</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/grey_Poupon.css"/>

</head>

<body> 

<div id="wrap">

<header class="main-header">
<h1 class="title">The Code Review</h1>

 <div class="main-head-info, clearfix" >
 <h3 class="sub-title">Signup for our newsletter</h3>

 <p>Get the latest news on how your code is doing in your inbox</p>

 </div>
 </header>

 <div class="contains-1">

    <h3 class="sub-title" id="con-info">Contact Information</h3>
  <label for="fullname" class="lab">Full Name</label>
 <input type="text" id="fullname" name="fullname" placeholder="absolutely" required="required"/>

    <label for="email"  class="lab" >Email Address</label>
 <input type="text" id="email" name="email" placeholder="absolutely" required="required"/>

   <label for="phone" class="lab">Phone</label>
   <input type="text" id="phone" name="phone" placeholder="absolutely" required="required"/>

    <fieldset id="mailfield">
   <legend>Mailing Info</legend>
   <label for="address" class="lab">Street Address</label>
   <input type="text" id="address" name="address" placeholder="optional" required="required" class="data"/>

   <label for="city" class="lab">City</label>
   <input type="text" id="city" name="City" placeholder="optional" required="required" class="data"/>


   <select name="states">
   <option value="choose state">Choose State</option>
   <option value="new york">New York</option>
   <option value="new jersey">New Jersey</option>
   </select>  


    <label for="zip" class="zip">Zip Code</label>
    <input type="text" id="zip" name="zip" placeholder="optional" required="required"/> 
     </fieldset>


    </div>

     <div class="contains-2, clearfix">


   <h3 class="sub-title" id="sub-2">Newsletter</h3>

   <fieldset id="field-2">
         <legend>Select the newsletters you would like to recieve</legend>
   <label for="html" id="star" class="ch">HTML News</label>
   <input type="checkbox" id="html" name="html"/>


     <label for="css" class="ch">CSS News</label>
  <input type="checkbox" id="css" name="css"/>

   <label for="js" class="ch">Javascript News</label>
  <input type="checkbox" id="js" name="js"/>

  </fieldset>

  <h5 class="check-ops">Newsletter format</h5>

            <div id="buttons">
            <label for="htmlrad">HTML</label>
           <input type="radio" id="htmlrad" name="radio"/>
            <label for="plainrad">Plain Text</label>
         <input type="radio" id="plainrad" name="radio"/>

             </div>

             <div id="codeSnip">

             <label for="code">Code Snippet</label>
             <p id="codep">Enter a code snippet if you wish for it to be evaluated</p>
             <textarea name="snippet" id="code"  cols="45"  rows="8"></textarea>
             <input type="button" id="cancel" name="cancel" value="Cancel"/>
               <input type="button" id="enter" name="enter" value="Enter"/>

             </div>
 </div>

   <footer class="main-footer">

   <p>Other topics you'd like to hear about</p>


    <textarea name="user-con" id="user-con" cols="45" rows="8"></textarea>

  <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Sign Up"/>

        <h5 class="copyright">&copy; The Code Review</h5>

    </footer>


</div>
</body>
</html>

        ```html
Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points
Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points

here is a link to my gitHub instead ..... https://github.com/varlerang/online_Reg_4orm.git