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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add Iconography

Julia Assad
Julia Assad
9,014 Points
Posted by Julia Assad
Julia Assad
9,014 Points

This is not a question about the video. It's just that at this point in the project, I wanted to add a background color

so in main.css I tried body{ font-family: 'Astloch', cursive; background-color: "#E6E6FA"; }

and I even tried in the index.html file with the following: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Julia Assad | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Astloch" rel="stylesheet"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#E6E6FA">

Neither are working. Can someone tell me how come? Thank you!

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Try getting rid of the double quotes ("") around your color value of #E6E6FA (in your CSS). Color values (in this case hexidecimal color values) aren't supposed to be wrapped in double quotes :)

~Alex