# Style the HTML Body Element help

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element-help/149331>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 22, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element-help/149331 "2017-09-22T11:29:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kanu1234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kanu1234](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/kanu1234)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element-help/149331/1 "2017-09-22T11:29:30Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**  
can you tell me what’s wrong with this code for changing body background? unable to proceed further.

**Your code so far**

```auto
<style>
  body {
  background-color: black;
}
</style>

```

**Your browser information:**

Your Browser User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36 Edge/15.15063`.

**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/style-the-html-body-element](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/style-the-html-body-element)

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**Author:** ![ArielLeslie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/arielleslie/32/264841_2.png) [@ArielLeslie](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ArielLeslie)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element-help/149331/2 "2017-09-22T14:30:26Z")

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That should be fine. Try resetting the challenge and putting your solution in again. Don’t forget to click “run tests”.

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element-help/149331/3 "2021-01-16T18:45:20Z")

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