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CSS

Posted by hugh lancaster
hugh lancaster
3,078 Points

Use ID selectors - workspaces

Hi, Cannot get background-color to display orange when I preview. Thanks

code for index.html

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Hugh Lancaster | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head>

here is main.css code: body { background-color:orange;

} All folders are uploaded in workspaces.

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Hugh I don't think you formatted your code right.

4 Answers

federicococheofiletti
federicococheofiletti
5,289 Points

Your're selecting the body tag correctly with css but I don't see any body in your html. Hugh... Neither I see a <link> tag or a <head>. Try writing this: html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>My Page</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <h1>Hugh Lancaster | Designer</h1> </body> </html> If your css file is named "style.css" and it's placed in the same folder.. this should work just fine!

federicococheofiletti
federicococheofiletti
5,289 Points

sorry for the formatting, I haven't understand how Markdown comment works yet.

federicococheofiletti
federicococheofiletti
5,289 Points

sorry for the formatting, I haven't understand how Markdown comment works yet.

hugh lancaster
hugh lancaster
3,078 Points
hugh lancaster
hugh lancaster
3,078 Points

Thanks for the replies. Sorry, I did not paste all the code nor did I give enough information. I can take the same code, index.html, css folder and save to a folder on the desktop. Open index.html from the desktop and it works as stated by instructor but I could not get it to work within workspaces.

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

hugh and Frederico

How to display code at Treehouse

federicococheofiletti
federicococheofiletti
5,289 Points
federicococheofiletti
federicococheofiletti
5,289 Points

Thanks forma the link Jeff.

Hugh probably you need to double check the href attribute in The link tag. Can't think of any other issue than this.