The color of checkboxes is not changing?

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:

The color of checkboxes is not changing why?

Your code so far


<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
 .red-text {
   color: red;
 }

 h2 {
   font-family: Lobster, monospace;
 }

 p {
   font-size: 16px;
   font-family: monospace;
 }

[type='checkbox'] {
      margin : 10px 0px 15px;
      color : green;
   }
 .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">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 class="silver-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">
   <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>

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use Attribute Selectors to Style Elements

Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design/basic-css/use-attribute-selectors-to-style-elements

2

Changing the color of checkboxes is more complicated than changing the color of text elements.

3

you cannot directly style checkboxes with css
this link will help you figure out how to style checkboxes with css
how to style checkboxes