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JavaScript Treehouse Club: JavaScript Car Sounds Background Color, Margin, and Padding

Posted by Ramzy El Husseiny
Ramzy El Husseiny
Courses Plus Student 1,079 Points

I can't get my style.css changes applied!

  • Background Color */ html { background:#7CFC00 }

This doesn't change anything to Lawn Green as I think it should

Andrew Berry
Andrew Berry
Courses Plus Student 1,448 Points
Andrew Berry
Andrew Berry
Courses Plus Student 1,448 Points

I still have the same problem. Could be an error of the treehouse workspaces

2 Answers

Petar Zelenovic
Petar Zelenovic
11,356 Points
Petar Zelenovic
Petar Zelenovic
11,356 Points

You are using "background" instead of "background-color" as the key.

Try this:

/* Background Color */ 
html { 
  background-color:#7CFC00 
}
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 Points

Hey,

background is absolutely okay as it's a shorthand property to define the background, even if you just define the background-color with it. Also it's used in the video, so I don't think that's the problem. Could you please post your whole code?

Also don't forget to end every declaration with a semicolon. So if your code looks like this:

html { 
  background: #7CFC00; 
}

it should actually work. If not please post your whole code as the problem may exists because of something different.

mark norabuena
mark norabuena
1,050 Points

How do you guys add pictures to these comments? I wanted to showcase my Car Sounds html file with the different colour of grass green.