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CSS CSS Layout CSS Media Queries Media Queries

Posted by Joshua Hart
Joshua Hart
7,734 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 2: Media Query Keeps saying background color is incorrect.

I keep playing with this but clearly im missing something. It keeps saying my background color is wrong. Help please?

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

@media  (min-width: 421px) {
  header {
            background-color: #294969;
            text-color: ghostwhite;}
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Developer Diane's blog</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <header>
    <div id="logo">Developer Diane’s Blog</div>
  </header>
  <article>
    <section class="intro">
      <h1>The verdict is in. CSS Layout is great!</h1>
      <p>I’ve been working with CSS for a while now, and I have to say, it’s pretty awesome. I love being able to separate content from presentation, and to keep all my styles in an external stylesheet.</p>
      <p>I’ve had a pretty good grasp on the basics for a while now, but I needed to learn more about how to control layout with my CSS. Understanding CSS layout meant first exploring the parts of the CSS box model.</p>
    </section>
    <section class="featured">
      <h2>The CSS Box Model</h2>
      <p>There are lots of great resources online to help you learn the CSS Box Model. I like the CSS Tricks article <a href="https://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/" target="_blank">The CSS Box Model</a> by Chris Coyier. To quote the author:</p>
      <blockquote>At the risk of over-repeating myself: <strong>every element in web design is a rectangular box.</strong></blockquote>
      <p>That’s right! Every HTML element is considered by the browser to be a rectangular box.</p>
      <p>The CSS Box Model consists of four properties: content, padding, border, and margin. I've included a graphic from Coyier’s article to illustrate this principle.</p>
      <p class="clear">It’s pretty easy to understand the Content portion of the box model. The content is whatever your HTML consists of. It could be a paragraph full of text, or a bulleted list, or an image.</p>
      <p>Beginning developers may have some trouble keeping the other parts of the box model straight, so let’s examine them one by one.</p>
    </section>
    <footer>©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Brandon White
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Brandon White
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Brandon White
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Brandon White
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 34,662 Points

Hi Joshua,

By placing the . before header you're attempting to target an element with the class of header as opposed to the header element.

Target the header element like this header {...}. Make that change and you'll be good to go.

Joshua Hart
Joshua Hart
7,734 Points

Just changed that. Still saying "Bummer: Did you specify the correct text color?"

Brandon White
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Brandon White
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 34,662 Points

text-color is not a CSS property. The property you're looking for is color.

My apologies, Joshua. I overlooked that the first go-round.

Joshua Hart
Joshua Hart
7,734 Points

That got it. Thanks alot. must have went through it 20 times.

Zedrick Palmer
Zedrick Palmer
3,383 Points

Hey thanks from me too man:) I had the same issue with the text color.