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2,531 PointsWhy does this throw an error: select background and set color to green?
Heres what I did but the editor keeps throwing an error in the challange task Error reads: "Bummer make sure you are setting the h1 tag's color to green" Please help.
''' <style> h1: {color: green;} </style>
<h1>Nick Petit </h1>
'''
<style>
h1: {
color: #008000;
}
</style>
<h1>Rishi</h1>
2 Answers
Muhamed Asil
7,453 Pointsselect h1 tag without typing colon(:) to be
h1 {
color: green;
}
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsYou have some stray punctuation.
There should not be a colon between your tag name and the open brace of your CSS rule.
Also, the challenges can be very picky. So while your numeric code works this time, in general if the instructions ask for a color by name it might be good to use the actual name.