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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Parwiz Rahimi
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Parwiz Rahimi
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Posted by Parwiz Rahimi
Parwiz Rahimi
Courses Plus Student 118 Points

write CSS that select h1

hi every one, i just started my first class to day, i am stuck in this question, write CSS select h1?

index.html 
<style>
  color: red;
  </style>
<h1>Parwiz</h1>
<h1> select</h1>

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You set up your style tag properly and even wrote your rule correctly, so that's. a pretty good job for day #1 in my humble opinion. However, it seems you're stuck on how to select an element to apply that rule to. So let's see if I can give you an example using a paragraph <p> instead of a headline <h1> and see if you can get it. I'm betting you can!

<style>
p {
  color: blue;
}
</style>

When we select an element we simply write the name of the tag such as p, h2, div... etc. Then we put our rules pertaining to that tag inside a set of open and closed curly braces. Each rule should end in a semicolon, which you also did correctly! :thumbsup:

The above code will select the paragraph element(s) and then make the font color blue. I hope this helps, but let me know if you're still stuck! :sparkles:

millogt
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millogt
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Make sure to read the question properly so u understand it and know what to do. When u start out with HTML and CSS (like me) things can sound a bit confusing at first. U have to write CSS that selects h1 and dont forget the curly braces/brackets. U dont have to use the word 'select' as u did in your code. Just have a look at how Jennifer explained it and at her example. Dont make things too complicated :)