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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Posted by Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Border colours

Hi guys and girls. How are we today?

I've typed in my own border colour, but when I save my work and refresh my web page, although the text and background colours are clearly visible, I see no border colour. What should I do please?

Thanks.

Sean

Dino Paškvan
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points

Could you paste your CSS here so we can check it out?

2 Answers

Dino Paškvan
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points

Well, you have changed the border color, it's just that your border is currently 0 pixels wide.

Replace border-color: teal; with a rule that will set width, style and color of the border in a single declaration:

border: 3px solid teal;
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Dino, you're a star! I've followed your directions, refreshed the browser and the border is visible. You've just earnt the Best Answer! Thank you very much indeed! :-D

Sean

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Hi Dino. Thanks for your response.

Here's the code, as requested:

header { background: blue; border-color: teal; }

I genuinely appreciate this.

Sean

PS I've just noticed that about 5 minutes into the video, Nick Pettit says that there's no border colour right now, but he'd come to that later.