Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 18

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:

For unknown reasons, the background color displays red instead of brown, why does this happen?, My code is fine.

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 {
  text-align: center;
}
body {
  background-color: brown;
}
// For unknown reasons, this displays red instead

/* 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/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/122.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 18

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Hello @baquirjezriel_bsa !

Though I cannot be sure, I am thinking it is some setting on the computer.
For me, it displays brown as it is intended to do.

May your coding path be smooth.

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Just completed step 19 where they told me to change it to burlywood, and that works completely fine, wonder why this specifically doesn’t?

I will redo this step though VSCode, to see if that if its my computer or this site thats malfunctioning

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Wishing you more smooth coding on your coding journey! :slight_smile:

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If you convert the named brown color to another color model like the rgb model then you will see that is has a high concentration of red

rgb(165, 42, 42);

as to why that is the case, this reddit answer seemed to be most promising as to the historical reasons for this

https://www.reddit.com/r/css/comments/2vd0re/why_is_css_brown_actually_redbrown/

hope that helps

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Redid this in VSCode, this is definitely a CSS problem, wonder why it hasnt been fixed yet, according to the reddit post, this has been a thing for at least 9 years now

thank yall for the support

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The more I view it, even on my screen, the more it appears to be a shade of red.
Good point @baquirjezriel_bsa !

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