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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets What is CSS?

Posted by joe thompson
joe thompson
846 Points

I have coded CSS to change the color of my copyright sign/name and it wont work and it also comes up as a hyperlink

This is my code, as you can see the first few lines after <style> is my CSS code that should make <footer> (copyright tag and name at the bottom of the body) the color green then over written to color orange but neither seem to work and now my copyright name seems to be a hyperlink to my facebook.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Joe T | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <style>
    footer {
        color: green;
      }
      footer {
        color: orange;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
       <a href="index.html">
      <h1>Joe Thompson</h1>
      <h2>Designer</h2>
         </a>
      <nav>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li> 
        <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> 
        <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section>
      <ul>
   <li>
     <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
        <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
       <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
      </a>
      </li>
        <li>
     <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
        <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
       <p>Trying to create an 80s style picture.</p>
      </a>
      </li>
         <li>
     <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
        <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
       <p>Photoshop testing for 80s</p>
      </a>
      </li>
         <li>
     <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
        <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
       <p>texture and color.</p>
      </a>
      </li>
         <li>
     <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
        <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
       <p>Experimentation website images.</p>
      </a>
      </li>

  </ul>
      </section>

    <footer>
      <a href="http://twitter.com/fvckjdsds"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt"twitter logo"</a>

<a href="http://facebook.com/joemufc"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt"facebook logo"</a>


     <p>&copy;2014 Joe T</p>
     </footer>
  </body>
</html>

EDIT by Saskia Lund : I fixed your code insertion :)

joe thompson
joe thompson
846 Points

</body> </html>

(wouldnt let me fit the last two lines in the post)

EDIT: Fixed it Saskia Lund

1 Answer

Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points
Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

You have a problem in the footer because you forgot to close your img tag and because of that it think it's all a hyperlink and you are missing a = in the alt attr too.

 <a href="http://twitter.com/fvckjdsds"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt"twitter logo"</a>

Try this instead and I'm 99.99% sure it will do the trick ;-)

 <a href="http://twitter.com/fvckjdsds"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="twitter logo"></a> // missing > and a =
Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points

This correct. :)