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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

Sadam Maruapey
Sadam Maruapey
4,221 Points
Posted by Sadam Maruapey
Sadam Maruapey
4,221 Points

you need to set the border color

i dont know what is wrong abput my challange i already finish my code, but keep mention that i you need to set border color for <p> which i did, please help

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

    <p class="main-pg">My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
p { border= 4px solid red ;
    text-align = centre;
}


.main-pg { border =  4px solid red 
  text-align = centre ;
}

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

CSS doesn't use an equals sign (=) to set properties, but rather a colon (:). For example, to set the height of all divs on a page, you'd do something like this:

div{
    height: 2em;
}

Also, CSS uses American spelling for everything, so it recognizes center, but not centre