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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Use ID Selectors

Posted by heatherglasier
heatherglasier
2,011 Points

Why can't I change the background-color to orange?

Here is a snapshot of my work by the way. https://w.trhou.se/cqbtjzfxk2

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You have a mistake in the two links tags you have added:

<link rel="stylesheet" href "css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href "css/main.css">

There needs to be an equal sign (not a space) between the href attribute and its value, just like there is with the ref attribute and its value. Like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

Because of this issue your CSS files were not linked with the HTML file, so even though the CSS code itself is fine it doesn't affect your page.

Ross Woodruff
Ross Woodruff
4,388 Points
Ross Woodruff
Ross Woodruff
4,388 Points

In your index.html page your href links to your css files are missing the = symbol.