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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Posted by Peter Kincaid
Peter Kincaid
1,528 Points

None of my css will implement into my index.html. What am I missing? It has to be small.

This is my HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Nick Pettit</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html"> <h1>Nick Pettit</h1> <h2>Designer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav> </header> <section> <ul> <li> <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> </li> <li> <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> </li> <li> <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> </li> </ul> </section> <footer> <a href="http://www.facebook.com"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/nutsacc"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"> </a> <p>Ā© 2013 Nick Pettit.</p> </footer> </body> </html>

This is my CSS:

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

logo {

text-align: center; margin: 0; }

header { color: #6ab47b; border-color: FBE1FB; }

h1,h2 { color: #fff; }

nav a, nav visited { color:fff; }

I'm going to go nuts!

2 Answers

Elliott Mangham
Elliott Mangham
13,086 Points
Elliott Mangham
Elliott Mangham
13,086 Points

Peter Kincaid, the first four lines need to be within head tags.

Replace the first four lines with the following:

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Nick Pettit</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
</head>

Hope this helps!

Peter Kincaid
Peter Kincaid
1,528 Points

This did not fix it. :(

Elliott Mangham
Elliott Mangham
13,086 Points

Please show us your updated code :-)

Carlton Francis
PLUS
Carlton Francis
Courses Plus Student 3,327 Points
Carlton Francis
Carlton Francis
Courses Plus Student 3,327 Points

Your 'meta', 'title', and 'link' tags all belong inside of a 'head' tag; wrap them all with one <head></head> and see if that fixes it.