# Trying to change color to red

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803 "2017-10-18T15:54:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Cooldavid02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cooldavid02](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Cooldavid02)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803/1 "2017-10-18T15:54:36Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**

**Your code so far**

```auto
<h2 style="color: blue">CatPhotoApp</h2>

<p>Kitty ipsum dolor sit amet, shed everywhere shed everywhere stretching attack your ankles chase the red dot, hairball run catnip eat the grass sniff.</p>

```

**Your browser information:**

Your Browser User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36`.

**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/change-the-color-of-text](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/change-the-color-of-text)

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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:** [October 18, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803/2 "2017-10-18T15:57:08Z")

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`blue` is not `red`.

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**Author:** ![Cooldavid02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cooldavid02](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Cooldavid02)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803/4 "2017-10-18T16:04:20Z")

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what can I do? cant past this stage-am new to this, thanks

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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:** [October 18, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803/5 "2017-10-18T17:26:13Z")

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You are setting the color to blue. Change the code you added to use red instead of blue.

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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/trying-to-change-color-to-red/153803/6 "2021-01-16T18:45:20Z")

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Closed on January 16, 2021, 6:45pm UTC