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

Posted by Susan White
Susan White
2,872 Points

I have set the border color to red like this border: solid 4px red; it keeps counting it wrong.

I don't understand why it will not count this as correct. I have set the border color to red like this border: solid 4px red; it keeps counting it wrong. I have tried putting it in a different order and still wrong. I can separate out and try that instead of condensed version?

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 4px red;
  }

3 Answers

Josh Nichols
Josh Nichols
11,382 Points
Josh Nichols
Josh Nichols
11,382 Points

Order of the values doesn't really matter. Looks like you have an extra open curly bracket on line 1 of the styles.css code snippet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border

Jake Salo
Jake Salo
13,175 Points
Jake Salo
Jake Salo
13,175 Points

You have mixed up the order of your values:

try:

.main-pg {
  border: 4px solid red;
}

This should work :) I also noticed you had an extra bracket '{' before your css - try deleting that if it is still there

Susan White
Susan White
2,872 Points

I figured out it didn't need my opening curly brace. I guess it already has that inherit to the styles doc

Susan White
Susan White
2,872 Points
Susan White
Susan White
2,872 Points

It still give me an error :( the order should not matter according to the video she did it like this: solid red 4px; { .main-pg { border: 4px solid red; }