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

Posted by Jungyeon Ji
Jungyeon Ji
1,762 Points

style ( footer color changing) and the linking stylesheet doesn't work on myworkspace

footer color didn't change at all and normalize.css didn't make any changes either(bullet points are not gone).

and i dont know how to attach the screen capture of my codes here ugh............

Jungyeon Ji
Jungyeon Ji
1,762 Points

its my head part 

    ```<head>
    ```  <meta charset="utf-8">
  ```    <title>Jungyeon Ji| Artist</title>
   ```   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
   ```   <style>
      footer { 
        color: green;
      }
  ```    </style>
   ``` </head>

and the footer code..

    ```  <footer>
    ```    <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"> <img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="twitter logo"></a>
    ```      <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jungyeon.ji.16"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png"    ```alt="facebook logo"></a>
   ```      <p>&copy; 2014 Jungyeon Ji.</p>
   ```    </footer>
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Jungyeon,

normalize won't remove the bullets on the gallery items but it should remove the bullets in the navigation. Do you still have bullets in your navigation?

Have you double checked that you have your normalize file in the "css" sub-folder?

The css that you have should change the font color. Your copyright notice should be green. Are you seeing that?

If you were trying to change the background color then use background-color as Jeremy has mentioned.

Jungyeon Ji
Jungyeon Ji
1,762 Points

Hi Jason,

normalize won't remove the bullets on the gallery items but it should remove the bullets in the navigation. Do you still have bullets in your navigation?

  • there are bullets in the navigation still.

Have you double checked that you have your normalize file in the "css" sub-folder?

  • yes I put the normalize file in the css sub folder.

The css that you have should change the font color. Your copyright notice should be green. Are you seeing that?

  • no. the font colour wasn't changed.

If you were trying to change the background color then use background-color as Jeremy has mentioned.

*was not trying to change the background colour.

Thanks for the response Jason! but would it be possible to suggest more thing I can try to fix the problems?

JJ

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Are you using the normalize.css that came with the project? You can check the version number by opening the normalize.css file in workspaces and there will be a comment at the top indicating the version number. Verify that it's v1.

As of right now, I'm not seeing anything wrong with your code. This could potentially be a workspaces problem.

I don't use workspaces myself but I'll try to give you a few suggestions to narrow down the problem.

One thing you could try if your workspace is saved is to log into treehouse on another browser and open the workspace there and see if you have the same results.

I think you also have the option of downloading your workspace to your computer maybe as a zip file.

File -> Download Workspace

Then you can unzip that and try viewing your html file locally in your browser. If you see the expected changes at that point then at least you'll know it's a workspace problem and nothing wrong with your code.

Jungyeon Ji
Jungyeon Ji
1,762 Points

Hi Jason, Thanks for all your time and effort! I went through your suggestions and checking lists, and I couldn't find any problem with my code, so I tried using Dreamweaver instead of workspaces. And it worked ! So I guess workspace doesn't really work with my mac somehow?

I'm gonna erase all and restart the codes on workspace for the last time and if it's still not working, I'm just gonna use dreamweaver or some other program.

Thanks again !

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

You're welcome.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. At least you know now it wasn't your code. You could continue developing locally or try to figure out what the workspace problem is.

Clearing browser cache has helped some people for other workspace related problems.

2 Answers

Jeremy Hayden
Jeremy Hayden
1,740 Points
Jeremy Hayden
Jeremy Hayden
1,740 Points

Are you trying to change the background color of the footer? If so try this instead.

background-color: green;

As for normalize.css, It doesnt by default get rid of bullets. You have to add a seperate style for those as well.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Jeremy,

The older 1.x version of normalize.css that is used in this project does get rid of list bullets within the nav element.

John Marshall
John Marshall
3,475 Points
John Marshall
John Marshall
3,475 Points

I am getting the same problem... It works outside of workspaces.. When i save the file and open it up, but not in workspaces

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi John,

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what else to suggest beyond what I've already mentioned here.

You could try clearing your browser cache in case workspaces is using a cached older version of your file.

Or you could temporarily switch to another browser and open your workspace there to see if the problem goes away.