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CSS Treehouse Club: CSS My First Web Page Changing Your CSS

Posted by Sarabeth Ferrell
Sarabeth Ferrell
1,702 Points

Edit the body style so that it has a color of #066 and a font-size of .75em. challenge task 2 of 2.

how do i do this?

style.css 
/***********************************************
Top bar color 
***********************************************/
html { border-top: 65px solid #4D7094; }
  border-top: 20px solid #4D7094;
}

/***********************************************
Body styling 
***********************************************/
body {
  max-width: 600px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 20px 20px;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  line-height: 0.75em;
  font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, serif;
  color: #066;
  font-weight: 300;
}

.centered {
  text-align: right;
}

/***********************************************
Image styling 
***********************************************/
img {
  border-radius: 100%;
  max-width: 340px;
}

/***********************************************
Headline styling 
***********************************************/
h1 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  line-height: 0.75em;
  color: #066;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  line-height: 1em;
  font-style: oblique;
  color: #066;
}

h3 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  line-height: 1em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

h4 {
  margin-top: 60px;
  font-weight: 500;
  color: #066;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>All About Joy's Page</title>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>   
  <body> 
    <img src="sam.jpg" alt="Sam">

    <h1>My Name</h1>

    <h2>My Profession</h2>

    <h3>Where I Live</h3>

    <h4>What I do:</h4>
       <p>I'm a teacher at Treehouse, but you should write in what you do here!</p>

    <h4>What I enjoy doing:</h4>  
      <p>When I'm not writing code, I like to surf and play music. Your turn, write in something that makes you happy, or things you like to do in your free time.</p>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

You did what the instructions said correclty, but on lines 5 and 6, there is a stray extra property setting (for "border-top") and an extra closing brace. This syntax error prevents the "body" rule that follows from being used.

Sarabeth Ferrell
Sarabeth Ferrell
1,702 Points

Thank You So Much!!