# Use a CSS Class to Style an Element Code

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-code/150214>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 27, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-code/150214 "2017-09-27T19:39:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Clarrencemureithi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Clarrencemureithi](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Clarrencemureithi)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-code/150214/1 "2017-09-27T19:39:08Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**

**Your code so far**

```auto
<style>
  .red-text{
    color:red;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text ">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 (Linux; Android 7.0; TECNO Camon CX Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.116 Mobile Safari/537.36`.

**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-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 27, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-code/150214/2 "2017-09-27T19:47:38Z")

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You didn’t fill out the “Tell us what’s happening” section. Please describe your problem and what you’ve already tried.

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**Author:** ![Clarrencemureithi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Clarrencemureithi](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Clarrencemureithi)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-code/150214/3 "2017-09-27T19:51:22Z")

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The h2 is not changing colour

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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, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-code/150214/5 "2021-01-16T18:05:36Z")

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