Your form element should have the background-color of green.t

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<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
    ;
  }
  #cat-photo-element {
    background-color: green;
  }
</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" background-color="green" id="cat-photo-form" background-color="green">
    <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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) 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 things wrong:
1: your form has the wrong id
2 you’re trying to style the background out of the style tag

The form id needs to have the background color of green. However you need to figure out the right id for your form, and style that id in the style tag

Thank you still not working for me

Is your form Id cat-photo-form?
In your style tag your cat-photo-element should change to cat-photo-form. Are those correct?

Did you remove the background you tried to change in the form?

Thank you it worked i did not realize that was possible

Glad you got it figured out