On using ID attributes to style an element

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:

What am I doing wrong? Followed what the video said

Your code so far


<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
#cat-photo-form {
  background-color: green
}

.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" id="heading">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
<p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

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



<div id="green-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" id#cat-photo-form

{
background-color: green;
}  
<label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
  <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><br>
  <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</main>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/80.0.3987.95 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1.

Challenge: Use an id Attribute to Style an Element

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Hi,

You are using this :

id#cat-photo-form

{
background-color: green;
}

inside form tag remove it .and keep the id like that’s

id=“cat-photo-form”

So, you can reuse it on you’re style tag .

3

I think your are confusing the use of inline styles with having styles in a style block.

Inline style, the style is on the HTML element:

<h1 style="color: blue">Heading text</h1>

Style block, the style is given to the HTML element using a CSS selector:

<style>
  h1 {
  color: blue;
  }
</style>

<h1>Heading text</h1>

Edit: also the video does not show the code you have, so it is definitely not the same.

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