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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

Posted by Abdullahi Abdinasir Ali
Abdullahi Abdinasir Ali
9,520 Points

How do I change h1 tag to purple

Where am get wrong

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

    <h1>Welcome to My Web Page!</h1>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
Body{

 background-color:purple;
}

2 Answers

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

Hello! The issue seems to be the element the color is being applied to. It looks like you're trying to apply the purple color to the <body> tag. While that would technically work, and would change the heading's color to purple, it would also affect all other elements on the page inside the body.

The challenge is asking you to make just the h1 tag purple. That means you need to target just the h1, like this:

h1 {
   color: purple;
}

Good luck!

Tim Strand
Tim Strand
22,458 Points
Tim Strand
Tim Strand
22,458 Points

Select based on the h1 tagname not the body tagname