# Style the HTML Body Element?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element/180162>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 17, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element/180162 "2018-03-17T06:53:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![fog3211](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@fog3211](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/fog3211)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element/180162/1 "2018-03-17T06:53:42Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**

where wrong?

**Your code so far**

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

```

**Your browser information:**

Your Browser User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36`.

**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:** ![lionel-rowe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/lionel-rowe/32/41877_2.png) [@lionel-rowe](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/lionel-rowe)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element/180162/2 "2018-03-17T07:13:39Z")

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Does the `style` element have an opening tag as well as a closing tag?

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**Author:** ![fog3211](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@fog3211](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/fog3211)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element/180162/3 "2018-03-17T08:45:03Z")

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thx,But not this problem,I know why I was wrong,  
I have customed web page background color

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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 17, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/style-the-html-body-element/180162/4 "2021-01-17T20:24:13Z")

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