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CSS CSS Foundations Backgrounds and Borders Background Properties

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Posted by Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

No background colours

Hi.

Can anyone tell me please why I can't get my background colour?

HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Background Properties</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page-styles.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/css_foundations_style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="box"></div>
</body>
</html>

CSS:

.box {
    background-color: blue;
}

Thanks.

7 Answers

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
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Hi Sean

Type some text within the div you will see the background.```html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Background Properties</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/css_foundations_style.css"> </head> <body> <div class="box"> This is a test </div> </body> </html>

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
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what is the name of your style sheet the first link or the second one?? if its the first one your link should be

html <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/page-styles.css">

your CSS looks fine hence it can only be the link to your style sheet.

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Hi Andreas. I use the css_foundations sheet. I've deleted the page-styles sheet, but I still get only a white screen.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Background Properties</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/css_foundations_style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="box"></div>
</body>
</html>
Christoph Wischow
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Christoph Wischow
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Christoph Wischow
Christoph Wischow
Courses Plus Student 305 Points

Try:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/css_foundations_style.css">

maybe the " type="text/css" " is missing

partha chakraborty
partha chakraborty
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partha chakraborty
partha chakraborty
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Because there is no content inside the div.

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Hi Christoph. I added 'type="text/css" but nothing changed.

Hi Partha. I typed in the div line exactly as Guil instructed. It worked for Guil but not for me. So I'm still confused. When Guil refreshed his browser, the big frame appeared in the middle of the screen, but when I refreshed mine, nothing happened.

I don't know what to do.

Cheers

Sean

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Hi Andreas.

I've typed text within the div, as per your suggestion and it's worked. Thank you.

Sean