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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Hunter Cobble
Hunter Cobble
6,631 Points

Very confused as to what i am doing wrong on changing this background color to red. .main-pg { border red solid; }

I've tried several different orders including:

{border: solid 4px #ff0000}

Any advice is welcome :)

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <p class="main-pg">>My amazing website</p>


  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
{
  .main-pg{
    border: 4px solid red;
}

2 Answers

mryoung
mryoung
4,156 Points
mryoung
mryoung
4,156 Points

It looks like your

.main-pg class selector has an opening curly bracket that’s orange, does that mean it’s counted as part of the name? Try changing that. See if it helps.

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Hunter,

You have an opening brace before your CSS rule? Just delete that and the rest is good.

.main-pg {
  border: 4px solid red;
}

Nice work! :) :dizzy: