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CSS

Miriam Allman
PLUS
Miriam Allman
Courses Plus Student 1,761 Points

May Lake Tahoe is grey - it should be white- what am I doing wrong

/* Web Fonts -------------------- */

@font-face { font-family: 'Abolition Regular'; src: url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.eot'); src: url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'); }

/* Base Styles -------------------- */

  • { box-sizing: border-box; }

body { color: #878787; margin: 0; font: 1em/1.5 "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; }

hi, h2 { font-family: 'Abolition Regular', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; }

} h1 {
font-size: 5.625rem; /* 90px/16px */ color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0, .8); }

h2 { font-size: 3.3125em; /* 53px/16px / font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0 0 .5em; / 0 0 26px */ }

h3 { font-size: 1.25em; /* 20px/16px / color: #48525c; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.7em; / 34px */ }

img { max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 10px; }

ul, ol { margin: 30px 0; }

li { margin-bottom: 10px; }

/* Pseudo-classes ------------------ */

a:link { color: rgb(255, 169, 73); text-decoration: none; }

a:visited { color: lightblue; }

a:hover { color: rgba(255, 169, 73, .4); }

a:active { color: lightcoral; }

/* Main Styles --------------------- */ .main-header { padding-top: 170px; height: 850px;

background: linear-gradient(#ffa949, transparent 90%), linear-gradient(0deg, #fff, transparent), #ffa949 url('../img/mountains.jpg') no-repeat center; background-size: cover; }

.title { color: white; font-size: 1.625rem; /* 26px/16px */ }

.intro { font-size: 1.25em; /* 20px/16px */ line-height: 1.6;
}

.primary-content, .main-header, .main-footer { text-align: center; }

.primary-content { padding-top: 25px; padding-bottom: 95px; }

.secondary-content { padding-top: 80px; padding-bottom: 70px; border-bottom: 2px solid #dfe2e6; }

.callout { font-size: 1.25em; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 0 9px 3px; margin-top: 20px; display: inline-block; }

.main-footer { padding-top: 60px; padding-bottom: 60px; border-bottom: 10px solid #ffa949; }

.t-border { border-top: 2px solid #dfe2e6; }

/* Layout Styles ------------------ */

.primary-content, .secondary-content { width: 75%; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; margin: auto; max-width: 960px; }

.wildlife { color: white; text-align: left; padding: 18% 24%; border-top: 10px solid #ffa949; margin: 105px 0 60px; background: #434a52 url('../img/bear.jpg') no-repeat center; background-size: cover; box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 10px rgba(0,0,0, .8ß);

border-radius: 10px;

}

.arrow { width: 50px; }

/* Floated Columns ------------------ */

.resorts, .tips { width: 46.5%; }

.tips { float: left; }

.resorts { float: right; }

/* Float Clearfix ------------------ */

.group:after { content: ""; display: table; clear: both; }

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

It would help to see the rest of the code, and be able to see it operating. You can make a snapshot of your workspace and post the link to it here.

1 Answer

Clare A
Clare A
23,994 Points

Are you talking about the background being grey? Haven't seen your code in action but it could be because the body styles are set to grey - see color: #878787.