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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

Thomas Caniff
PLUS
Thomas Caniff
Courses Plus Student 1,258 Points
Posted by Thomas Caniff
Thomas Caniff
Courses Plus Student 1,258 Points

telling me too set the h1 color to purple wich is what ive done in the css link and without quotes which ive done so im

at a loss help please

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<h1>
  <head>

    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <p>Welcome to My Web Page!</p>

  </body>
</h1>
styles.css 
/***********************************************
Headline styling 
***********************************************/

  color: #800080;

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
seal-mask
STAFF
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

The problem with your code is that you simply didn't tell it WHAT is supposed to be purple. Also, it wants you to change the paragraph tags to h1 tags. So try these out:

 <h1>Welcome to My Web Page!</h1>

and

h1 {
   color: purple;
}
Gianmarco Mazzoran
Gianmarco Mazzoran
22,076 Points
Gianmarco Mazzoran
Gianmarco Mazzoran
22,076 Points

And the h1 tag must be inside the body tag!

like this:

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

    <h1>Welcome to My Web Page!</h1>

  </body>
</h1>