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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by Ashi A
Ashi A
2,531 Points

Why does this throw an error: select background and set color to green?

Heres what I did but the editor keeps throwing an error in the challange task Error reads: "Bummer make sure you are setting the h1 tag's color to green" Please help.

''' <style> h1: {color: green;} </style>

<h1>Nick Petit </h1>

'''

index.html 
<style>
  h1: {
  color: #008000;
  }
</style>

<h1>Rishi</h1>

2 Answers

Muhamed Asil
Muhamed Asil
7,453 Points
Muhamed Asil
Muhamed Asil
7,453 Points

select h1 tag without typing colon(:) to be

h1 { color: green; }

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

You have some stray punctuation.

There should not be a colon between your tag name and the open brace of your CSS rule.

Also, the challenges can be very picky. So while your numeric code works this time, in general if the instructions ask for a color by name it might be good to use the actual name.