Use an id Attribute to Style an Element2

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening: how do i do this “Your form element should have the background-color of green” without adding a style or class to the form

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;
  }

  .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 style="background-color" 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) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-css/use-an-id-attribute-to-style-an-element/

2

Use this id inside the form element to give a green color background

3

How do i do that, I have tried doing it

4

Like you did for classes where you had "." before the classname, here you need to call the id using # symbol before the id name

5

Use this code inside your style tag. It targets the id and styles it.
Solution below:

#cat-photo-form{
background-color: green;
}

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6

I have used it, but how do i add it to the Id attributes?

7

You have already added the id attribute, all you need is to call using the # in your style

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8

Please how do i do that?

9

You have id=“cat-photo-form” in your form tag,
id’s are called using # and classes are called using dot

#cat-photo-form { 
add the style here; 
}

You can refer this to see how to use classes and id’s
@IAmRC1 gave you this direct solution

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_syntax.asp

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10

Mr. Sujith, I know how to call class and id, i have already added it to the style attributes, but i don’t know how to make the form background to turn green, i have tried all i could. tried adding id="cat-photo-element’’ in my form but it didnt work. what am i doing wrong?

11

Can you provide the code you tried.?

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12

}
#cat-photo-element{
background-color:green;
}

Indoor Outdoor
Loving Lazy Energetic
Submit
13

It should be #cat-photo-form but you have #cat-photo-element

14

Thank you! it worked now, sorry for the stress.