# Give a Background Color to a Div Element - Help Plz

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element-help-plz/161822>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 2, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element-help-plz/161822 "2017-12-02T02:37:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![anon46395391](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@anon46395391](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/anon46395391)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element-help-plz/161822/1 "2017-12-02T02:37:20Z")

</div>

**Tell us what’s happening:**  
Hey guys,  
I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my code. The solutions suggested in another (now locked) thread are not working. Much appreciate any help.

**Your code so far**

```auto
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: Lobster, Monospace;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: Monospace;
  }

  .thick-green-border {
    border-color: green;
    border-width: 10px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-radius: 50%;
  }

  .smaller-image {
    width: 100px;
  }
  
  .silver-background {
    background-color: silver;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>

<p>Click here for <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

<a href="#"><img class="smaller-image thick-green-border" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back. " src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat"></a>

<div class=".silver-background">
  <p>Things cats love:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>cat nip</li>
    <li>laser pointers</li>
    <li>lasagna</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
  <ol>
    <li>flea treatment</li>
    <li>thunder</li>
    <li>other cats</li>
  </ol>
</div>

<form action="/submit-cat-photo">
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label>
  <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

```

**Your browser information:**

Your Browser User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14393`.

**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kevcomedia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/kevcomedia/32/125737_2.png) [@kevcomedia](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/kevcomedia)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element-help-plz/161822/2 "2017-12-02T02:41:23Z")

</div>

The class name in the HTML shouldn’t have a `.` in it. It’s just `class="silver-background"`

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![anon46395391](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@anon46395391](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/anon46395391)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element-help-plz/161822/3 "2017-12-02T02:59:25Z")

</div>

Thanks mate,  
It worked! Well, I will never forget this.  
Cheers!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/give-a-background-color-to-a-div-element-help-plz/161822/4 "2021-01-17T20:33:11Z")

</div>