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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Posted by farah hussain
farah hussain
9,218 Points

text-color and background color

how to make the gallery li .differnt text colors and backgroung color

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

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

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

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: Changa One, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img{
 max-width:100%;
}
#gallery{
 margin:0px;
 padding: 0px;
 list-style:none;
}
#gallery li{
 margin: 2.5%;
 width: 45%; 
 float: left;
 padding: 0;
 list-style: none;
}

colors{
 text-color: #7D26CD;
background: #2E0854;
}
rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points
rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points

In #gallery li add color: red; (or whatever color you like), and in #gallery li add background-color: yellow; (or whatever color you like).

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

:point_right: Just like you added the margin to your existing "#gallery li" rule, you can added the color properties to that same rule also:

#gallery li{
 margin: 2.5%;
 width: 45%; 
 float: left;
 padding: 0;
 list-style: none;
 color: #7D26CD;             /* this is the property that sets the text color */
 background-color: #2E0854;  /* just "background" also works */
}

There is no CSS property named "text-color".