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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by Tony O'Neal
Tony O'Neal
Courses Plus Student 129 Points

what am I doing wrong

can you check my work

index.html 
<html>
<head>  
<style>
  h1{ 
 background-color;green;
  font-size;25px;
} </style> 
<h1> Nick Pettit </h1>

2 Answers

Nick Yoho
Nick Yoho
6,957 Points
Nick Yoho
Nick Yoho
6,957 Points

When defining the background-color and font-size you accidentally used a semicolon(;) instead of a colon(:)

<html>
   <head>  
     <style>
        h1{ 
          background-color: green;
          font-size: 25px;
       }
     </style>
sankaranarayanan N
sankaranarayanan N
8,435 Points
sankaranarayanan N
sankaranarayanan N
8,435 Points

Update like this.. <html> <head>
<style> h1 { background-color: green; font-size:25px; } </style> </head> <h1> Nick Pettit </h1>