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

Bishwash Shrestha
Bishwash Shrestha
132 Points
Posted by Bishwash Shrestha
Bishwash Shrestha
132 Points

how to add border to the p element with external css

how to add class attribute through external css

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 
<style>
p.main-pg {border: 4px solid red
}

</style>

1 Answer

Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points
Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points

Your selector needs to be formatted correctly. So if you want to target all p elements which have the class = "main-pg", you can do something like :

.main-pg p {
color: red;
}

If you want to target all p elements in the body then just use :

p {
color: red;
}

Or all elements with the class = "main-pg":

.main-pg{
color: red;
}