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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Add Fonts

Posted by Arun Baskaran
Arun Baskaran
Courses Plus Student 863 Points

unable to set font family

<style> h1 { font-family: Sans-serif; }

I used the above css to set style for header h1 but i'm getting following error

"It doesn't look like you have applied style to h1"

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <style>
    h1 {                                                                                                                                                                                                      
      font-family: Sans-Serif; 
    }
  </style>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis|Pacifico|Dancing+Script|Yellowtail' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <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>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
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;
}

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! There's a couple of things going on here. First, your h1 style is not supposed to be in your html file. It's supposed to be in main.css. Secondly, it asks you to apply the style that you previously linked from Google with a sans-serif fallback. What this means is that if the user (for whatever reason) is unable to get that font from Google right then, your font will be a generic sans serif. Third, the sans-serif value should not contain any capitalized letters. Fourth, your style block (even if it were required for this challenge) is improperly placed. It should reside inside the <head> tag. For the purposes of this challenge it should be removed completely from the html file.

So this is what you need to have in your main.css.

h1 {
  font-family: Dosis, sans-serif;
}

Happy coding! :sparkles: