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

Posted by ruben santos
ruben santos
1,193 Points

can somebody tell me what "You need to set the border color for <p> elements to red." what does that mean?

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p class="main-pg"</p>
    <p>My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
 }
.main-pg {
border: 4px solid red;

}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

It looks like you had the right idea about the border, but you have some syntax and other issues:

  • the instructions ask you to add the class to the existing paragraph, not create a new paragraph
  • the opening P tag with the class isn't complete, it's missing the ">" symbol
  • the CSS file has a stray "}" symbol before the selector
  • the border rule should target all <p> elements, not just the one with the class