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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets What is CSS?

David Miller
David Miller
3,526 Points
Posted by David Miller
David Miller
3,526 Points

The background of my font in "nav a" has turned orange just like in the video; however, the text has remained blue. ??

code is identical to instructors

4 Answers

Ben Ragsdale
Ben Ragsdale
14,187 Points

Hi David,

That's right, CSS doesn't use that form of commenting.

CSS uses the following format for comments: /* put comment here */

Trent Hayes
Trent Hayes
9,899 Points
Trent Hayes
Trent Hayes
9,899 Points

Comments in CSS begin with /* and end with */

for instance,

/* This line is commented out. */

David Miller
David Miller
3,526 Points
David Miller
David Miller
3,526 Points

I just rewrote it and figured out the problem was a comment I made. Care to clarify why?

Here is the code that works:

<style>
      nav a {
        color: white;
        background-color: orange;
      }
</style>

Here is the code that will only change the background-color:

<style>
      nav a { <!-- style -->
        color: white;
        background-color: orange;
      }
</style>

**I assume the problem is that CSS doesn't use the same commenting technique as HTML and is commenting out the first property...

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

It won't be. Post your code up here.