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CSS

Posted by Y B
Y B
14,136 Points

Media query syntax

I'm stuck in the ow to build a website challenge on responsive design. It asks: "Create a breakpoint for devices 480 pixels wide or larger. Inside the breakpoint, set the body background to the color navy."

@media (min-width: 480px) {
  background-color: navy;
}

However the above isn't recognized for some reason. The syntax highlighting isn't working for background-color which makes me think I have the media query syntax wrong somehow?

1 Answer

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Your media query looks correct but you haven't set the background color to any element. You need to add a selector for the body tag before you set the background-color property.

@media (min-width: 480px) {
   body {
       background-color: navy;
   }
}
Y B
Y B
14,136 Points

Thanks that fixed- just not used to using @media that I forgot about the selector.

Thanks.