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CSS

Posted by anisah ahmed
anisah ahmed
1,307 Points

Select the body of the page. Set its background color to lightblue.

The code i had put was {.body .style Background-color= lightblue;} i dont know why its not working can someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????

3 Answers

dman10345
dman10345
7,109 Points
dman10345
dman10345
7,109 Points

Have you linked your CSS file to your index.html or other file? If so have you done so correctly?

Make sure you do this, most commonly done so in the header of your page.

<html>
    <body>
        <header>
            <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
        </header>
    </body>
</html>

Notice the <link> tag is self closing and requires no closing tag :) Next your CSS looks correct but I will format to ensure I am reading it correctly and that you are doing it correctly.

body {
    background-color: lightblue;
}

This is quite simple but feel free to ask if you don't understand something or need more help.

Happy coding!

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

You have a few different issues here:

  • "body" is an element tag, so is used as-is in the selector (selectors starting with a period refer to a class)
  • the selector must come before the open brace
  • there should not be a reference to a style class
  • the property name is separated from the value with a colon (:) (not a =)