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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Welcome to HTML and CSS

Posted by Nicole Hudson
Nicole Hudson
552 Points

My workspace will not change the tag background color.

This piece of code will not change the designated color when edited.

.tag {
  background-color: blue;
  color: black;
  padding: 10px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  display: table;
  margin: 10px auto;

2 Answers

Chris Adams
Chris Adams
553 Points

Hi Nicole Hudson! Were you able to get your changes to show up in the browser? One important thing to keep in mind when following along in workspaces is that you'll need to make sure that you save your work - and refresh the preview in the browser - before changes will appear! This is the same as what you'll be required to do when coding on your own device.

If you're following along with Treasure's instruction in the video, you'll likely have only changed the background-color property in your styles.css file. Take a look and see if there is a little orange dot next to the styles.css file name - if so, this means that the file hasn't been saved yet!

Nicole Hudson
Nicole Hudson
552 Points

Yes, I was able to get it to work. Thank you so much

antoniosmith2
antoniosmith2
31 Points

Thank you for clarity on this step, I was having the same problem!

Kirk Wimer
PLUS
Kirk Wimer
Courses Plus Student 4,137 Points
Kirk Wimer
Kirk Wimer
Courses Plus Student 4,137 Points

If you can paste the rest of the code around that it will help so we can see context. However, just to cover the basics: did you close the curly brace after that line of code? I see you have the opening one near the .tag, but I don't know if the closing "}" was just on a separate line so it didn't get copied, or it isn't there.

Also, you added the 'class="tag"' to your div or whatever HTML element you are using that tag class to style, yes?