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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Organize CSS with Comments

Posted by Ali Eljayar
Ali Eljayar
1,135 Points

the nav color did not change to white?

i feel that i have some thing wrong with html <nev> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nev>

because the dots before the Portfolio, about, and contact did not disappear and when i apply the code to change the color to white did not work...

header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }

h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

nav { background: #599a68; } nav a, nav a: visited { color: #fff; }

need help

Jeremy Woodbridge
Jeremy Woodbridge
25,278 Points

This is because you don't have the unordered list wrapped in a nav element yet. If you take a look back at your code a </nev> which I assume is supposed to be a </nav>. Fix the nav element and see if it works.

Ali Eljayar
Ali Eljayar
1,135 Points

it's works now. thank you

2 Answers

Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

It looks like you mistyped nav in the html. Should be nav instead of nev.

Ali Eljayar
Ali Eljayar
1,135 Points

it's works now. thank you

David Roberts
David Roberts
6,191 Points
David Roberts
David Roberts
6,191 Points

I am going to assume that you have an opening <nav> tag that you just didn't put here. You also spelled the closing </nav> tag wrong.

It should work if you wrap the <ul> in the <nav> tags. 

<nav>
     <ul>
         <li></li>
         <li></li>
         <li></li>
     </ul>
</nav>

It is really easy to miss a closing tag, misspell something, forget a colon, etc... Be sure to go back through and double and triple check the obvious things. I have stared at code for quite sometime and not seen the simplest things that were causing the error