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CSS CSS Basics Basic Selectors ID and Class Selectors

Posted by Rene Armenta
Rene Armenta
1,469 Points

what I may be doing wrong?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Developer Diane: Resume</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main>
    <header class="main-header">
      <div>
        <h1 class="main-heading" >Developer Diane: Resume</h1>
        <address>
          <p>website: developerdiane.com</p>
          <p>email: diane@developerdiane.com</p>
        </address>
        <img src="developer-diane.jpg" alt="Developer Diane coding on her laptop.">
      </div>
    </header >          
    <section id="Experience">
      <h2> Experience</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <h3>Super Web Design Shop</h3>
          <p>Junior Developer</p>
          <p class="date special">February 2020-present</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <h3>Pretty Good Websites, Inc.</h3>
          <p>Web Development Intern</p>
          <p>July 2019-January 2020</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>Ā©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
  </main>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
 .main-header {
   background-color: orange;
 }
 .main-heading {
   font-size: 72px;
 }

.Experience {
  font-size: 72px; 
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,272 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,272 Points

The issue is that ID names are case sensitive; and the instructions say to "give the section element an ID name of experience" (lower case "e"), but this code assigns an ID of "Experience" (capital "E").

Also, you shouldn't have assigned any CSS to this yet, the instructions for that will come in task 6. When you get there, remember that the indicator for an ID is the "#" symbol (a "." is for a class).

Jordan Jenks
Jordan Jenks
9,351 Points
Jordan Jenks
Jordan Jenks
9,351 Points

how