Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 22

HTML-CSS
1

Tell us what’s happening:

I’m working on a FreeCodeCamp exercise where I need to return the background color of the <body> to white by using only a comment.

I wrote the following code:

body {
  /* background-color: burlywood; */
}

The instructions state that I cannot explicitly set the background color to white and should only use a comment to disable burlywood.

However, when I run the code, I get the following error message:
:x: “The background color of the body must be white.”

If I then add background-color: white;, I get a different error:
:x: “You cannot change the comment to another color.”

I have checked if there is another background-color setting elsewhere in the code, but I can’t find anything.

How can I correctly solve this without explicitly setting white in the CSS and without modifying the comment?

Thanks in advance!

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>
    <div id="menu">
      <main>
        <h1>CAMPER CAFE</h1>
        <p>Est. 2020</p>
        <section>
          <h2>Coffee</h2>
        </section>
      </main>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
body {

/* User Editable Region */

  background-color: burlywood;}

/* User Editable Region */



h1, h2, p {
  text-align: center;
}

body { 
   /* background-color: burlywood; */ 
} 
     #menu { 
       width: 300px;
}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 22

2

Your solution (commenting out the background-color property) works from my end.

Please try one of the following steps to move forward.

Click on the “Restart Step” button and force a refresh of your page with CTRL + F5 then try to paste the code in again.

or - Try the step in incognito or private mode.

or - Disable any/all extensions that interface with the freeCodeCamp website (such as Dark Mode, Ad Blockers, or Spellcheckers), and set your browser zoom level to 100%. Both of these factors can cause tests to fail erroneously.

or - Ensure your browser is up-to-date or try a different browser.

I hope one of these will work for you.

3

Hi,
you already have a body selector at the top of your css, so no need to add another selector.
Try commenting out the style there.
Good luck!

1 Like
4

Thanks for your help! I added the code in the first body and it works perfectly now. Really appreciated!

1 Like