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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Understanding Values and Units Color Values

Immanuel Jaeggi
Immanuel Jaeggi
5,164 Points
Posted by Immanuel Jaeggi
Immanuel Jaeggi
5,164 Points

Problem with hex values

When I added the #ffa949 value to the 3 declaration blocks, they didn`t turn up orange. Any ideas?

Here is the code:

.main-header { background-color: #ffa949; }

main-footer {

padding-top: 60px;
padding-bottom: 60px;
border-bottom: solid 10px #ffa949;

a:link { color: #ffa949;

1 Answer

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points
Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points

It looks like you might be missing the closing curly brace. Every opening { needs a closing }, so for example, you would need:

#main-footer {
    padding-top: 60px;
    padding-bottom: 60px;
    border-bottom: solid 10px #ffa949;
}

Edit to add, looks like you also missed the # before main-footer, you need this because it is an id.