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

Posted by GABRIEL Arreola
GABRIEL Arreola
Courses Plus Student 234 Points

what is curly braces

what is curley braces

index.html 
<h1>Gabriel Arreola</h1>
<style>
  <hi>style</h1>

2 Answers

Robin Orellana
Robin Orellana
11,626 Points
Robin Orellana
Robin Orellana
11,626 Points

curly braces are {} which are used to hold the declaration in the css rule

EX:

h1 {
  color: red;
}

but the challenge just says to add the style element above the h1 tag so it should look like this

<style></style>

<h1>Gabriel Arreola</h1>
Andrew Booth
Andrew Booth
1,578 Points
Andrew Booth
Andrew Booth
1,578 Points

Curly braces are used in CSS files. CSS stands for "Cascading Style Sheet". In CSS, we use the curly braces for certain functions.

In HTML, the example you are listing is using CSS commands inside the HTML directly with the style tags, though this method is generally frowned upon as it can get very clustered by mixing CSS declarations with an HTML document.