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

Hover preview does not work in my Workspace...

From the get go, whichever course video it was that told about the ability in Workspace to preview a color when you hover the mouse selector over that particular code, I have not been able to get the preview box to pop up.

I thought this would be a neat little addition, and helpful, but it has just not worked in Workspace anytime for me, and I have tried different things to see if I can remedy it. I have gone through View and made sure that "Quick View on Hover" is selected. I have even "unselected" it, tried it, then selected it back and tried it, but kept getting the same result. Every time that it has failed to come up, I verified my code was typed correctly (I'll post my code snippet from main.css below just in case anyone might see I am missing something.

So, I am curious if anyone else has this issue at all, and if maybe this feature has been removed in some sort of update to the Workspace. Not having this feature working properly so far has not impacted anything or prevented me from doing anything in the course. I just like to have things working properly and I think that this is a very useful feature.

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}

Another two things I wanted to add... First, I also have closed and re-opened Workspace several times to see if it just needed to be restarted. No change at all. Second, I know the code above is correct as I have verified it several times and also previewed the page, and the anchors are representing the correct color.

Like I said, this is basically a non-issue and prevent me from getting the work done. I just think it is pretty darn useful and would like to have use of it later on in the course.

2 Answers

Hi Michael. So I have only one question. Which web browser are you using? I use google Chrome browser and the color preview appears just fine but from my understanding folk who use Firefox will not be able to preview last i checked.

Hey, Quentin. I am using Internet Explorer. I did not think about the issue being with the browser. Have you heard anything from the IE crowd having issues?

I just switched over to Chrome, and it does work there. I'll just continue using Chrome from now on. Thanks.

Jay Padzensky
Jay Padzensky
4,731 Points

Hey Michael!

Sorry for any troubles. We do tend to recommend using Treehouse through Chrome (or Firefox), as they both tend to offer the smoothest student experience. IE/Edge can be a bit... wonky at times, as you experienced. I'm glad you found a quick and simple solution. Please feel free to let Support know of any other issues you may have. Happy coding! help@teamtreehouse.com

Awesome =)))