Challenge Hints: Background Color

A list of hints for the challenges in the Background Color lesson.

Last updated - July 23, 2024

Checkpoint Try putting background-color inside style="" on three tags
American Flag

Try putting background-color inside style="" on the body tag

style="background-color:   "

Thai Flag

Does your body tag have turquoise styling? style="background-color:   "

Don't forget that red is on the edges.

Greek Flag

Did you put a background color on the body tag? style="background-color:   "

Did you alternate heading tags between blue and white?  Don't forget to start with blue at the top.

The Background Blend

Did you give your body tag a background color?

Did you begin with a heading tag with a background color of white at the top, and include light grey, dark grey, and black? Spell grey with an "e" not an "a"

Calendar Background Colors

Did you give a background-color to 12 heading tags? style="background-color:   "

Are your months in order?  Are they shortened (Feb) instead of February?

Sunset on the Beach

Did you style each <h1> tag with a "background-color" in the style attribute?

Did you include all the correct structure tags?  Is DOCTYPE capitalized?  

Rainbow Hobbies

style = "background-color:    ; color:    "

Did you include all the correct structure tags?

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