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CSS CSS Layout CSS Media Queries Media Queries

Posted by Marquis Briggs
Marquis Briggs
8,967 Points

Create a media query that targets all devices when the viewport width is 421px or wider. Inside the media query, select

background color is supposed to be #294969 Why is it not being accepted as the answer?

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
@media (min-width: 421px;)
.main-header {
  background-color: #294969;
   font-color: ghostwhite; 
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Developer Diane's blog</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <header>
    <div id="logo">Developer Diane’s Blog</div>
  </header>
  <article>
    <section class="intro">
      <h1>The verdict is in. CSS Layout is great!</h1>
      <p>I’ve been working with CSS for a while now, and I have to say, it’s pretty awesome. I love being able to separate content from presentation, and to keep all my styles in an external stylesheet.</p>
      <p>I’ve had a pretty good grasp on the basics for a while now, but I needed to learn more about how to control layout with my CSS. Understanding CSS layout meant first exploring the parts of the CSS box model.</p>
    </section>
    <section class="featured">
      <h2>The CSS Box Model</h2>
      <p>There are lots of great resources online to help you learn the CSS Box Model. I like the CSS Tricks article <a href="https://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/" target="_blank">The CSS Box Model</a> by Chris Coyier. To quote the author:</p>
      <blockquote>At the risk of over-repeating myself: <strong>every element in web design is a rectangular box.</strong></blockquote>
      <p>That’s right! Every HTML element is considered by the browser to be a rectangular box.</p>
      <p>The CSS Box Model consists of four properties: content, padding, border, and margin. I've included a graphic from Coyier’s article to illustrate this principle.</p>
      <p class="clear">It’s pretty easy to understand the Content portion of the box model. The content is whatever your HTML consists of. It could be a paragraph full of text, or a bulleted list, or an image.</p>
      <p>Beginning developers may have some trouble keeping the other parts of the box model straight, so let’s examine them one by one.</p>
    </section>
    <footer>©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
</body>
</html>

4 Answers

Cat R
Cat R
10,868 Points
Cat R
Cat R
10,868 Points

@media screen and (min-width:421px) {
header{ background-color:#294969; color:ghostwhite; } }

Cody Hansen
Cody Hansen
5,517 Points
Cody Hansen
Cody Hansen
5,517 Points

First thing is something that is easy to miss! The way to change the colour of the text is by changing the "color" property.

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
@media (min-width: 421px;)
.main-header {
  background-color: #294969;
  /* font-color: ghostwhite; */
  color: ghostwhite;
}

The question is also asking you to target the header tag. .main-header is a class selector, but unfortunately the header tag does not have a class to select! Instead, just grab the header tag itself.

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
@media (min-width: 421px;)
/* .main-header { */
header {
  background-color: #294969;
  /* font-color: ghostwhite; */
  color: ghostwhite;
}

@media is also best thought of as a new css page and not treated like a selector! @media takes a whole new set of rules that it will use should the parameters be true (in this example, greater than 421px). We have to wrap all these new rules in curly braces.

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
@media (min-width: 421px;) {
  /* .main-header { */
  header {
    background-color: #294969;
    /* font-color: ghostwhite; */
    color: ghostwhite;
  }
}

I hope this helps! Good luck with everything!

Jmaisin Williams
Jmaisin Williams
8,263 Points

it didnt

drew hershey
drew hershey
2,759 Points

The semicolon should be removed from "421px;". Then the code should work.

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points
Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

Looks like they want you to target the header element. You have .main-header class selected.

Garrett Lindsay
Garrett Lindsay
1,265 Points
Garrett Lindsay
Garrett Lindsay
1,265 Points

@media (min-width: 421px) { ... } header { background-color: #294969; color: ghostwhite; }