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CSS CSS Foundations Text, Fonts, and Lists Font Properties

Posted by Matt Lehn
Matt Lehn
3,672 Points

Why isn't Challenge tsk 1, Stge 5 of CSS Foundations accepting my code? Question (& my response) are exact from video

Question asks to create new paragraph rule using font stack of Baskerville, Times New Roman, Times and serif. My css code response:

p {
   font-family: baskerville, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; 
}

Seems right to me but I get the "Bummer! check the font-family" response. :-/

3 Answers

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Matt,

Try an uppercase B on baskerville.

Matt Lehn
Matt Lehn
3,672 Points
Matt Lehn
Matt Lehn
3,672 Points

Thanks, Jason- that did the job! Thought I'd tried that before bringing this to the forum. Have to remember case-sensitivity is an issue sometimes (yet Guil's video example was lower-cased. Weird.) :-)

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

It may be case insensitive in the browser. The css3 fonts module says that it is supposed to be that way.

I think to be safe I would always match the case.

The code challenge might be checking for exact string matches and that could be why lowercase doesn't work.

Byron Twogood
Byron Twogood
14,631 Points
Byron Twogood
Byron Twogood
14,631 Points

I had that problem too. I believe the instructor tells you that the name of the font has to EXACTLY match the name in whatever database or source you're using. That includes case sensitivity, underscores, etc...