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CSS CSS Layout CSS Media Queries Media Queries

Phoebe Tyson
Phoebe Tyson
7,504 Points
Posted by Phoebe Tyson
Phoebe Tyson
7,504 Points

Media Queries challenge - are you sure you've specified the correct color? Yes.

I'm not sure why I'm getting this error message as I'm pretty sure I have the correct colour set.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
@media screen and (min-width: 421px) {
  header {
    background-color= #294969;
    color= ghostwhite;
  }
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Developer Diane's blog</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <header>
    <div id="logo">Developer Diane’s Blog</div>
  </header>
  <article>
    <section class="intro">
      <h1>The verdict is in. CSS Layout is great!</h1>
      <p>I’ve been working with CSS for a while now, and I have to say, it’s pretty awesome. I love being able to separate content from presentation, and to keep all my styles in an external stylesheet.</p>
      <p>I’ve had a pretty good grasp on the basics for a while now, but I needed to learn more about how to control layout with my CSS. Understanding CSS layout meant first exploring the parts of the CSS box model.</p>
    </section>
    <section class="featured">
      <h2>The CSS Box Model</h2>
      <p>There are lots of great resources online to help you learn the CSS Box Model. I like the CSS Tricks article <a href="https://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/" target="_blank">The CSS Box Model</a> by Chris Coyier. To quote the author:</p>
      <blockquote>At the risk of over-repeating myself: <strong>every element in web design is a rectangular box.</strong></blockquote>
      <p>That’s right! Every HTML element is considered by the browser to be a rectangular box.</p>
      <p>The CSS Box Model consists of four properties: content, padding, border, and margin. I've included a graphic from Coyier’s article to illustrate this principle.</p>
      <p class="clear">It’s pretty easy to understand the Content portion of the box model. The content is whatever your HTML consists of. It could be a paragraph full of text, or a bulleted list, or an image.</p>
      <p>Beginning developers may have some trouble keeping the other parts of the box model straight, so let’s examine them one by one.</p>
    </section>
    <footer>©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Phoebe Tyson

You're on the right track, with one error. CSS property names and the corresponding values are separated by colons not equal signs.

If you have a look closely at the CSS in the challenge's text editor, you'll notice that the values for both properties have a red line under them and are not the proper color. This denotes an error somewhere prior to the red line.
Once you correct the equal sign to be a colon, the color after changes and the red line goes away.

Nice work. :) :dizzy:

Phoebe Tyson
Phoebe Tyson
7,504 Points
Phoebe Tyson
Phoebe Tyson
7,504 Points

Of course, thanks so much!

Dan Odell
Dan Odell
1,562 Points
Dan Odell
Dan Odell
1,562 Points

I'm getting that i have not selected the correct background color as well, this does not seems to make sense to me as to why its not correct?

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */ @media screen and (min-width: 421px){ .header { background-color: #294969; color: ghostwhite; } }

Brandon Loschiavo
Brandon Loschiavo
1,986 Points

Change the name of the header!

instead of:

.header {}

put:

header {}