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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points
Posted by Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points

My navigation headings aren't white. Please help!

I've read the other questions, saved & refreshed & cleared the cache. Thank you for any help.

Here's my code

a { 
  text-decoration: none;
}
#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}
#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0:
}

a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}

header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}
h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav {
  background: #599a68
}

nav a, nav a: visited {
  color: #fff;
} 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title> Miaow Mail </title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
    <style>
  footer a {
        color: pink;
      }
      </a>
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Miaow Mail</h1>
        <h2>A comprehensive email service for cats</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
        <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Experimentation with color and texture</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Playing with blending modes in photoshop</p>
            </a>
            </li>
           <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Trying to create an 80s style of glows</p>
            </a>
            </li>
            <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Drips created using photoshop brushes</p>
            </a>
            </li>
             <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Creating shapes using repetition</p>
            </a>
            </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
          <a href="https://twitter.com/mariposa4444"><img src="img/twitter.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/monifa.alfayed"><img src="img/facebook.png" alt="Facebook Logo"</a>  
          </footer>
       <a><p>&copy; 2015 MiaowMail, a student of Nick Pettit.</p></a>
      </div>
  </body>
</html>  ```
Nick Calabro
Nick Calabro
16,335 Points
Nick Calabro
Nick Calabro
16,335 Points

Try background-color instead of background.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

The actual cause of the problem is that you have a space between the colon (:) and the word visited in your CSS selector. Instead of:

nav a, nav a: visited { color: #fff; }

you want:

nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; }

I notice you also have a stray </a> inside your <style> element in the HTML, but it's not causing a problem. Same with the missing closing > of the facebook <img> element. And why use <style> in the HTML at all if you have a CSS file?

Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points
Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points

Thank you! It worked! I am just trying to follow Nick's videos as best as I can and hopefully reproduce the same code.

Max Kutner
Max Kutner
7,595 Points
Max Kutner
Max Kutner
7,595 Points

Not that this addresses the color issue but you're missing a closing > for your Facebook social-icon.

Should look like this:

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/monifa.alfayed"><img src="img/facebook.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>

Hope it helps! Max

Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points
Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points

I did that because the copyright bit kept linking to my facebook profile which annoyed me! I played around with it to get that to stop. I can't actually see the code you posted!