Hi all! I’m brand new to coding, looking for a career change into data analytics and trying to get a headstart on the course I’m starting next year. I just had trouble passing the first CSS test as I used the Australian spelling of ‘colour’ for the style and couldn’t get it to work. I was wonderin…

there is only one accepted way to write a css property or the name of an html element, it is usually the american spelling, yes.

Okay, cool. Thanks so much for letting me know.

Hi @Karoline Welcome to FCC. One trick that has helped me so far is to always think of CSS, HTML and JS as computer languages independent of natural languages like English, French, Spanish e.t.c. They have their own rules about grammar and spelling.

Thanks for the welcome, @nibble ! And this great tip. I remember how beneficial it was to drop the constant comparisons to English when I was learning Portuguese, so this makes total sense. Can I bother you with another beginner question since we’re here? Do I need to pay attention to the indentin…

The standard formatting would be h2 { color: blue; } So that’s what the autocomplete would give you with the braces But in a project in your own IDE you would have an extension that deal with keeping the formatting consistent, so it’s not that important in most cases, as long as it is readable …

If I were you, I wouldn’t worry about indentation. As long as the code is correct, you can format it by pressing the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + I . I am using Ubuntu. I am not certain but it could be different for your OS. Like @ILM mentioned, we format CSS code to make it more readabl…

Awesome. Thanks again, and to you @ILM . I’ll let it be ugly first and aim for pretty later.

Just as a very minor aside, if you ever use any of the named HTML “gray” colours in your CSS, as in .some-element { color: gray; }, you can spell them with an e, as in “grey”. Afaics that’s the only concession to non-US spelling. Why it’s allowed I don’t know, the ability to do that seems to have be…

Interesting! Every concession is a relief, so I’ll take it. I wonder if it’s the impossibility of remembering which spelling of grey is correct. Maybe it’s not just me after all.

Haha, I’ve been working as a dev for quite a few years now and I still regularly mess up on spelling – UK based, so at work we tend to automatically name things (functions, classes, variables, object properties, etc) using UK spelling. And then when writing the code I’ll mix up spelling of stuff we…

English (US) spelling needed for coding?

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One, easy way to prevent this from happening, is to set clear, company-wide code standards. It helps a lot. Especially in the long run.

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