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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

how do you change a color of a tag

how do you change a color?

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

2 Answers

Robert Boring
Robert Boring
3,923 Points

First you need to use an element selector in your css file. So to select the h1 tag you would select it as so:

h1 {

}

Selecting the h1 selector with the element selector then using the color property in css to change the elements color. So for example

h1 {
  color: purple;
}

Will change the color of the h1 text to purple, hope this helps.

Huzaifa Sajjad Malik
PLUS
Huzaifa Sajjad Malik
Courses Plus Student 10,823 Points

Well there are couple of ways to do so if you don't want to write code in your CSS file then you can use inline style as follow: <h1 style="color:red">Welcome to My Web Page!</h1> But that's not a good approach I would encourage you to use the CSS Selectors method to add style to your page.In order to add color to your heading just select your heading in the CSS file and give it a color by using color property as follows: /Code goes in CSS styleSheet/ h1 { color:purple; }