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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by Manuel Cervantes
Manuel Cervantes
183 Points

need help adding style element

it says don't forget your style tag need help... need like an example

2 Answers

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

It's asking you to write CSS in your HTML document (as opposed to writing your CSS in a separate file), and this is done with the <style></style> tag. This code passes the entire challenge:

<body>
    <style>
      h1{
        color: green;
      }
    </style>
    <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
</body>

As you can see, it's just like writing normal CSS, but you just write it in between a <style></style> tag directly in your HTML

Scott Crawford
Scott Crawford
37,861 Points
Scott Crawford
Scott Crawford
37,861 Points

Not sure exactly who/what "it" is but a style tag is used to add style elements within your html code. You can also do this using a CSS stylesheet instead which makes it look a lot cleaner. Anyway, here's an example from w3schools.com with some additions. It shows a style tag used to change the body color to yellow and paragraph text to blue.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html>

<head> <style> body {background-color:yellow;} p {color:blue;} </style> </head> <body> <p>This text will be blue</p> </body>

</html>