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

Posted by Taylor Presley
Taylor Presley
238 Points

Give the paragraph a border that is 4px wide, solid and red

I've tried several variations that I've found on similar questions, however, I keep getting the error "You need to set the border color for <p> elements to red."

What am I doing wrong?

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

    <p class="main-pg">My amazing website</p>

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

2 Answers

Andreas Nyström
Andreas Nyström
8,887 Points
Andreas Nyström
Andreas Nyström
8,887 Points

Your html is right. However, you don't close your css and you have opening and closing brackets around your css class.

The only thing you need is just the css for that specific class, like this:

.main-pg {
  border: 4px solid red;
}
Taylor Presley
Taylor Presley
238 Points

That worked! Thank you so much!

Ben Basty
Ben Basty
23,772 Points
Ben Basty
Ben Basty
23,772 Points

you shouldn't have the opening and closing brackets around your css class.