Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers - Step 11

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<!-- 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>Colored Markers</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>CSS Color Markers</h1>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="marker">
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
h1 {
  text-align: center;
}


/* User Editable Region */

freecodecamp{marker:background-color red;}

/* User Editable Region */


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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/118.0.2088.76

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Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers - Step 11

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The text from the example isn’t needed in the code.

The class selector should begin with a dot followed by the class name.

Also, the style property needs a colon at the end of the name.

Happy coding