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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Basic Selectors Intro to Selectors

Philip Kroupoderov
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Philip Kroupoderov
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Philip Kroupoderov
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Why is the bg white??

Guil said that * will select all elements in the html file. He set the color to red. But why is the background still white??? It's defined by the <body> tags. Does the * selector also modify the <body> tag?? From what I can see it does not, and Guil did not mention that.

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Wade Williams
Wade Williams
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Wade Williams
Wade Williams
24,476 Points

The "color" property changes the color of the text, not the background color. So you'll notice that all text on the page is red. To do the background you would do:

* {
    background-color: red;
}