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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by mairs
mairs
1,481 Points

why is my colour not changing to blue?

It looks like I followed the instructions on CSS but can't figure out where i have gone wrong?

index.html 
<style>

  <h1> {
  color: blue:
  }
</style>
<h1>Mary Chati</h1>
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.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 33,900 Points

Put a semicolon after

color: blue;

You put a ":" which probably is the mistake.

mairs
mairs
1,481 Points

hi Thanks. I figured out that I put <> on h1. Its worked now.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Contratulations on resolving your issue! :+1:

As you discovered, CSS selectors use only the tag name and not the angle brackets that would surround the tag in the HTML.