# Use a CSS Class to Style an Element (problem)

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-problem/167208>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-problem/167208 "2018-01-06T22:16:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bluelion7](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/bluelion7/32/75070_2.png) [@bluelion7](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/bluelion7)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-problem/167208/1 "2018-01-06T22:16:25Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**  
Hi. I am having problems with this part of the challenges.  
Can anyone help?  
Thanks

**Your code so far**

```auto
<style>
 
 <h2.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 4.1.1; AT300SE Build/JRO03C) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.111 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:** ![petersim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/petersim/32/74464_2.png) [@petersim](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/petersim)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-problem/167208/2 "2018-01-06T22:26:06Z")

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> [@bluelion7](#):
>
> \<h2.red-text {  
> color:red;
> 
> }

Try removing the `<` from your style section.

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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, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/use-a-css-class-to-style-an-element-problem/167208/3 "2021-01-17T20:31:25Z")

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