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Oliver Sewell
16,108 PointsMy background color wont turn orange when i apply css rule
the max width and margin work but not the background color
#wrapper {
max-width: 940px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: orange;
}
i have also used background-color:orange; with no luck.
John Cope
13,924 PointsYou are on the right track it should be background-color:orange;
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Pointsthankyou for the reply , its still not working T__T im using chrome , maybe their is something wrong with my browser or html code? the background will not change from white
Agustin Grube
39,278 PointsDid you erase the previous work? it all has to be there to move forward.
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Pointsyes i removed previous and retyped it it just isnt changing even when i try a different color also
Agustin Grube
39,278 PointsNo. I mean did you delete the code from the previous stage of the challenge?
5 Answers
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Pointsyeah it still isnt working ive moved onto another task now and still having problems so ive emailed support . thanks for trying to help anyway dude
johnniehicks
8,779 PointsI'm having the same problem. My CSS just isn't being applied. I have everything exactly how Nick has it in the video. Using Chrome on Windows. Let me know if you get an answer!
Kristopher Van Sant
Courses Plus Student 18,830 PointsAre you trying to pass the challenge or are you following along with the video in workspaces? If you are in workspaces, this might sound silly, but are you saving your code in workspaces and refreshing the browser? Also have you changed any of the HTML?
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Pointsim following along with the video in workspaces , yeah i keep saving my work and havn't changed any of the html , iv emailed support to see if they can help , thankyou for replies and trying to help
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Pointsi still havnt figured out how to fix it either johnnie hicks , ive emailed the treehouse support and they said to post it on the forum but ive tried that and nothing is working , its really frustrating
johnniehicks
8,779 PointsI am frustrated as well, Oliver. It's good to know I'm not alone. I tried closing and re-opening my workspace, but that just lost all the work I have done today even though it appeared saved. So maybe copy all your code and save it offline just in case.
johnniehicks
8,779 PointsI managed to get mine working. After closing the workspace and opening it back up to find it hadn't saved anything from today, I rewrote everything and hit preview. Still wasn't working. Hit a hard refresh and it finally worked. So, some of the other solutions posted worked in the end, but there must be something wrong with leaving your workspace open overnight as I did.
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Pointsthats great news , goodluck hope it doesnt happen again im still trying to get mine to work
johnniehicks
8,779 PointsGood luck, friend. Hopefully we don't have to run into eachother in these forums too often
Agustin Grube
39,278 PointsAgustin Grube
39,278 Pointsbackground-color: orange;
is correct. The code challenges here are somewhat specific. Try adding the space between : and o