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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story The Body

Posted by Kim Connolly
Kim Connolly
2,475 Points

HTML background color error with code

I was playing around with the background color of the page and inserted this code here:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

  <title>First Run</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">

 <style>
    h1 {text-align: center; color: blue; font-family:sans-serif}
    h2 {text-align: center; color: magenta; font-family:sans-serif}
    p  {color:maroon; font-family:sans-serif}
  </style>

</head>

<body>
  <h1>A Mid-day Lunch</h1>
    <h2>By Kim C</h2>
  <body style="background-color:powderblue;">

<p>Begin story</p>

Fast forward to the bottom of the code, the very last line </html> instantly highlighted in red after I inserted this background color code in this spot. Does this mean I put it in the wrong spot or did not close the brackets correctly?

Kim Connolly
Kim Connolly
2,475 Points

Update: Tried that >pluboj but it didn't change. I moved the background color code up in between the style brackets, the red highlight on </html> is now gone. Thank you!

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>

<title>First Run</title> <meta charset="utf-8">

<style> h1 {text-align: center; color: blue; font-family:sans-serif;} h3 {text-align: center; color: magenta; font-family:sans-serif;} p {color:maroon; font-family:sans-serif;} body {background-color:powderblue;} </style>

</head>

<body> <h1>A Mid-day Lunch</h1> <h3>By Kim Connolly</h3>

<p> Begin Story </p>

</body> </html>

2 Answers

pluboj
pluboj
5,954 Points
pluboj
pluboj
5,954 Points

You are missing semicolon after sans-serif

shubham kandharkar
shubham kandharkar
2,354 Points
shubham kandharkar
shubham kandharkar
2,354 Points

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>

<title>First Run</title> <meta charset="utf-8">

<style> h1 {text-align: center; color: blue; font-family:sans-serif} h2 {text-align: center; color: magenta; font-family:sans-serif} p {color:maroon; font-family:sans-serif} </style>

</head>

<body> <h1>A Mid-day Lunch</h1> <h2>By Kim C</h2> <body style=background-color:powderblue>

<p>Begin story</p>

Try this code this will work