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CSS

Posted by christiaan white
christiaan white
733 Points

Why is my css code being highlighted with red in workspaces and failing to change my test web page?

/********************* FOOTER **********************/

footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; padding-top: 50px; color: #ccc; }

/********************* PAGE: PORTFOLIO **********************/

gallery {

margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;

}

gallery li {

float: left;
width: 45%;
margin: 2.5%;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
color: #bdc3c7

}

/********************* COLORS **********************/

/* sitebody */ body { background-color:#fff; color: #999; }

/* green header */ header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }

/* nav background on mobile */ nav { background: #599a68; }

/* logo text */ h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

/* links */ a { color: #6ab47b; }

/* nav link */ nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; }

/* selected nav link*/ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }

Raymond Wach
Raymond Wach
7,961 Points

Hi christiaan white, just to note, when you paste code in the forum, you can get syntax highlighting and code styling by wrapping the code in triple backticks and including the language the code is written it.

```CSS

  • {
    background-color: #f90;
    }
    ```

becomes

* {
  background-color: #f90;
}

3 Answers

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points

gallery li color is missing a semi-colon at the end

christiaan white
christiaan white
733 Points
christiaan white
christiaan white
733 Points

thank you, I'll keep looking through it for mistakes like that

christiaan white
christiaan white
733 Points
christiaan white
christiaan white
733 Points

after combing over it, I realized that I was missing a bracket.