Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 18

HTML-CSS
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So I had some trouble figuring this step out and searched forums for help. Someone posted the answer (another post advised them not to do so in the future). But even though I understand the answer now, my input is still incorrect. I’ve included the body element next to the h1, h2, and p elements, and I entered background-color: brown on a new line. There is a closing bracket. The code works. However I’m still told I have to use a body selector. (I also tried restarting the problem and the webpage).

h1, h2, p, body {
text-align: center;
background-color: brown;
}

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Cafe Menu</title>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <main>
      <h1>CAMPER CAFE</h1>
      <p>Est. 2020</p>
      <section>
        <h2>Coffee</h2>
      </section>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */

/* User Editable Region */

h1, h2, p, body {
  text-align: center;
  background-color: brown;
}

/* User Editable Region */

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 18

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So I figured it out. The program wants a NEW style:

{}

on a new line. I’m not supposed to lump these the styles together. So that’s that.

3

Do you understand why?

The selector you have will set the background color on all the elements. Which you wouldn’t want just because you wanted a background color on the body. So you have to create a new selector just for that element, in this case, the body.

The selector you added would be like painting the entire house red because you want a red door, instead of just painting the door red.

4

Ok, thanks! I think I get it now.

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