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Michael Birnkrant
Courses Plus Student 269 PointsSet element color
Having trouble setting element of h1 in the coding challenge to the color green... any tips?
5 Answers
Ira Santiago
18,625 PointsRemember in order to change the style for the h1 element and see that change, it has to exist in your HTML. You have to wrap your name in the h1 element first or you won't see anything happen.
<h1>This is a level 1 heading!</h1>
Once you do that, you can refer to it in your CSS to change the color, like this:
h1 { color: red; }
Hope that helps!
Ira Santiago
18,625 PointsHey Michael, what do you have so far?
Michael Birnkrant
Courses Plus Student 269 Points<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<style>
<h1> Michael </h1>
</html>
... that seems to run but can't figure out where to insert or impose "color:green" and make the code run... thx
Michael Birnkrant
Courses Plus Student 269 PointsCame out wrong there...so far:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html>
<style> <h1> Michael</h1>
</html>
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe forum uses markdown to correctly format code, check out this thread on how to type code in the forum for some examples.
Michael Birnkrant
Courses Plus Student 269 PointsThanks~!