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CSS

Posted by lorieslaughenhaupt
lorieslaughenhaupt
645 Points

Why isn't the html style element having an effect?

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Lorie Slaughenhaupt | Event Coordinator</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <style>
      footer {
        color: green;
      }
    </style>
  </head>```

1 Answer

Paul Nicolson
Paul Nicolson
4,799 Points
Paul Nicolson
Paul Nicolson
4,799 Points

Hi there Lorie,

The problem lies in that there is no footer element on in the document to be styled.

Here is an example of how the page should look in order for your styles to take effect:

<!doctype html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Lorie Slaughenhaupt | Event Coordinator</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <style>
      footer {
        color: green;
      }
    </style>
</head>

<body>




  <footer>
       <p>This text will be affected by your styles</p>
  </footer>
</body>
</html>```

I hope this helps :)
lorieslaughenhaupt
lorieslaughenhaupt
645 Points

Sorry, very new to this I should have realized I needed to post the whole project. It's my understanding Markdown is for small amounts of code I better go back to how to post and learn another tool for posting code in questions. Thank you.

Paul Nicolson
Paul Nicolson
4,799 Points

No worries, happy to help!