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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Test: Changing the Look of a Web Page

Nagendra Prasad
Nagendra Prasad
183 Points
Posted by Nagendra Prasad
Nagendra Prasad
183 Points

Change the color of the h1 tag to purple.

Change the color of the h1 tag to purple.

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

    <h1 class="h1clolor">Welcome to My Web Page!</h1>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.h1color
{
  background-color:purple;  
}

2 Answers

Alejandro Byrne
Alejandro Byrne
2,562 Points
Alejandro Byrne
Alejandro Byrne
2,562 Points

Hey! Your code seems to be right... try to add a space between the : and purple. And make it look like this: .h1color { background-color: purple; } If that doesn't work, replace purple with #800080. Hope that helps!

Alejandro Byrne
Alejandro Byrne
2,562 Points
Alejandro Byrne
Alejandro Byrne
2,562 Points

And by the way, you don't need to make the h1 a class. Just take away the class and replace the css style with h1.

Don Macarthur
Don Macarthur
28,430 Points
Don Macarthur
Don Macarthur
28,430 Points

Looks like a typo to me.

In your h1 element, where you declare the class, you have it named as "h1clolor", but your css is targeting "h1color".