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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Matilda Bros
Matilda Bros
Courses Plus Student 529 Points

It keeps saying I'm not setting the border color to red but I'm putting ".class-.main-pg { border: 4px solid red; }

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Its asking to give the paragraph a border that is 4px wide, solid and red. I put ".class-.main-pg { border: 4px solid red; } "Bummer: You need to set the border color for <p> elements to red" Thats what I did?!

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

    <p class=main-pg>My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.class=.main-pg {
border: red solid 4px;
}

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,664 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,664 Points

Remove .class= from your CSS. The period before .main-pg designates a class

.class=.main-pg

should be

.main-pg