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TRACY ZIWEWE
1,820 PointsStyles and Themes in Android
Now add an item element to the styles that sets the text color of the Button to blue. Hint:Use android :text Color as the attribute name and #0000ff as the hex code for blue
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name ="TweetButton">
<item name="android:textColor"#0000ff>
</resources>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/sendButton"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/send_button_label" />
</RelativeLayout>
1 Answer
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsHi there,
The item element is a child of the style element in XML, so what you need to do is pass the blue value in directly as a value, but not as its own attribute. Like this.
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name ="TweetButton">
<item name = "android:textColor">#0000ff</item>
</style>
</resources>
Item has a closing tag and isn't self closing. That's how the style knows how to recognise styles and settings :)