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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Posted by Emily Strobl
Emily Strobl
5,429 Points

need help

i keep getting an error message no matter what i do to my code

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

    <p>My amazing website</p>
    <p class="class-name"></p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css

1 Answer

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

The instructions for task one say "Add a class called "main-pg" to the paragraph element."

So the important things to notice are:

  • the class should be added to the paragraph that is already there, you don't need to make a new one
  • the name of the class won't be "class-name", it will be "main-pg".

Try again with those things in mind and I'll bet you get it.