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Cynthia Eng-Dinsel
2,160 PointsChanging background and text color for nav
I tried to follow the video and change the links in the nav to orange and white, but it ignored the background color.
nav a { color: white; background-color: orange; }
Not sure what is going on. If I remove the a, it looks fine. Thanks.
3 Answers
Itsa Snake
3,852 PointsMaybe it wants you to use the shorthand for background as below. Can you paste the full question?
nav a { color: white; background: orange; }
Jeff Busch
19,287 PointsHi Cynthia,
I believe the video is using an internal style sheet so you will need to use style tags.
Jeff
<style>
nav a {
color: white;
background-color: orange;
}
</style>
Cynthia Eng-Dinsel
2,160 PointsThanks for responding. What might have happened, is that I had an <li></li> in the wrong area. I couldn't get the background to go green in the next video, so I downloaded the project and opened it up in sublime text. My main.css file was fine. My index.html was borked, and I would never have known, because it was behaving fine up until that point.
Sheesh. :/ Learning the hard way.