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

Posted by Micheal Jones
Micheal Jones
3,972 Points

how do set the boarder color for the <p> element?

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:solid 4x red;
}

2 Answers

Micheal Jones
Micheal Jones
3,972 Points

Thats what the problem was.... thank you!

Piotr Manczak
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Piotr Manczak
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,363 Points
Piotr Manczak
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Piotr Manczak
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,363 Points

By the way you did another mistake in HTML. You did not closed the p tag, it is: <p instead of <p>. Check it out down below:

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

All those details matter. Computers are merciless.

Micheal Jones
Micheal Jones
3,972 Points

Thank you I really appreciate it.