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CSS Build a Simple Website Styling Content Finishing the CSS

Whats wrong with this?

Line 21:

copyright { border-top: 8px 0 0 0 0 solid #2A0400 }

doesnt work...? Wheres the mistake?

5 Answers

Patrick Gerrits
Patrick Gerrits
14,614 Points

Lets get you on the way.

Is copyright a valid html tag? Or is it a class or id?

Then when you look at the border-top. What are the 0's for?

Jaka Dirnbek
Jaka Dirnbek
7,046 Points

What do the zeroes stand for?

copyright { border-top: 8px solid #2A0400 } should work.

Thanks (both); indeed, die 0 0 0 s got in the way. The error message was misleading me...

Thanks (both); indeed, die 0 0 0 s got in the way. The error message was misleading me...

Jason Broderick
Jason Broderick
7,361 Points

"copyright" is not a valid html tag

It should read ".copyright" if its a class tag or "#copyright" if its an id tag. This is the equivolent to the tag you specified in your html markup for example;

<div id="copyright"> content </div> is a # (id) attribute

<div class="copyright"> content </div> is a . (class) attribute

also "0000" means nothing, it doesnt apply to anything.

correct code (if it is to apply to an id tag for example) should read;

copyright { border-top: 8px solid #2A0400 }