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I had no problem going through the html tutorials. I already knew html and CSS before coming here and have built websites with it. However on both CSS tutorials in the first exercises I enter the code that it is asking for but it continues to tell me it's incorrect. I copy and pasted the code from the exercises and it didn't work. I also hand typed everything multiple times I still could not get it to work. I am in windows 7 64 bit, I tried both in IE7 and FF 9.0.1. I ended up using rgb for setting the color value and it worked however both hex and the color name didn't work as was suggested in the tutorial.

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color:green;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

This will not validate but it should.
However this will

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color:rgb(255,255,255);}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

I haven't messed with the second tutorial enough to get it working yet but I was having the same issue with not being able to get the correct code to work. After further investigation is seems this is a underlying issue with some or all of the tutorials that require colors. Both background-color and color command. However it seems even the first exercise on tutorial 2 will not continue with accurate code, including the code that is copy and pasted from the exercise description.

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I've tried to replicate the issue using the html code above but did not see the issue.
I tested on FF9, IE7, IE9, Chrome and Safari but they all displayed the green background color when I used "body {background-color:green;}"

answered 12 years ago by codeadmin (113,880 points)

Strange, I attempted to do the same code today and it works now. This was an issue I was having with multiple tutorials and multiple exercises within the tutorials. I had cleared my history and everything multiple times and tried different browsers with no success. After reading your answer I copy and pasted the same code and it worked. I dunno whatever it was seems to be resolved for now. Thanks for the fast reply and whatever magic you did.

commented 12 years ago by friskyding0 (1,940 points)

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