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Why did colour: red do nothing?
Short answer. CSS only knows color.
What fills behind the text?
background-color.
Remember
| Write color, not colour |
| font-size: 18px, no space |
| background-color fills behind |
You wrote colour: red, and nothing changed. Why? CSS only knows color, spelt without u. Font-size sets size. Background-color fills behind. Three rules. Spell color without u. No space in 18px. Fill with background.
This clip is from the full lesson: Formatting text, colour, background and layout with CSS — 6 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: GSEB Std 12 Computer Studies
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