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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Test: Changing the Look of a Web Page

Ali Corlett
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Ali Corlett
Courses Plus Student 1,359 Points
Posted by Ali Corlett
Ali Corlett
Courses Plus Student 1,359 Points

<h1> css command reports error. Don't understand why.

<h1> I have added a class field so the html looks at the css page and I thought the .h1 in css was correct. I have put in a purple code and not sure why this is not resolving. please advise

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <h1 class="h1">Welcome to My Web Page!</h1>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.h1 { 
  font color: #80080;
}

5 Answers

Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,559 Points
Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,559 Points

I'm not sure if it was a copy/paste error or a typo, but you're hex color only has 5 digits. It needs 6 (or 3 if pairs are the same), in order to work properly. If that's not what your issue is, let me know :)

Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points
Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points

In your styles, for font color, it should look like this:

.h1 {
color: #800800;
}

You don't need to put font at all.

Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,559 Points

Bryce Santos - Guess I was more tired than I thought. I completely missed the "font" thing was there, too.

Ali Corlett
Ali Corlett
Courses Plus Student 1,359 Points
Ali Corlett
Ali Corlett
Courses Plus Student 1,359 Points

Hi Bryce, that has worked, as in the font colour has changed to purple but I get a bummer message saying that it needs to be changed without quotes... Any ideas what this needs?

Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points
Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points

Oh... it's because you need to change the color to purple. Not using hexadecimal.. but using 'purple' .

Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points
Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points

You also created a class. That wasn't needed either.

Ali Corlett
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Ali Corlett
Courses Plus Student 1,359 Points
Ali Corlett
Ali Corlett
Courses Plus Student 1,359 Points

Hi Bryce, ok I will remove the class from html and see what happens thanks so much,

Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points
Bryce Santos
Bryce Santos
11,157 Points

make sure you do this:

h1 {
color: purple;
}