vmars316 1 Report post Posted Saturday at 11:49 PM (edited) Hello & Thanks , I am having trouble giving a <div> a background color : <div class="Cell" style="width: 25%; border-style: solid; border-color: #FF0000; background-color: D3DDEB; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; "> I am using this example: https://www.w3schools.com/htmL/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_migrate_7 I am using inline style= , when I get proper results , then I will transpose code into css styles . <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>HTML5</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <style> body { font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; } header, nav, section, article, footer, div.city { border: 1px solid grey; margin: 5px; padding: 8px; } nav ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; } nav ul li { display: inline; margin: 5px; } </style> </head> <body> <header> <h1>HTML5 Skeleton</h1> </header> <nav> <ul> <li>News</li> <li>Sports</li> <li>Weather</li> </ul> </nav> <article> <h2>Famous Cities</h2> <div class="London" style="background-color: #00FF00;"> <h2>London</h2> <p>London is the capital city of England. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom, with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants.</p> </div> <div class="Paris" style="background-color: #FF0000;"> <h2>Paris</h2> <p>Paris is the capital and most populous city of France.</p> </div> <div class="Tokyo" style="background-color: #0000FF;"> <h2>Tokyo</h2> <p>Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the most populous metropolitan area in the world.</p> </div> </article> <footer> <p>© 2014 W3Schools. All rights reserved.</p> </footer> </body> </html> And here is my example code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>DIVs Template WIP</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>DivsOnlyTemplate</title> <!-- file:///C:/vmars.us/DivsOnly-STARTover.html https://www.dummies.com/web-design-development/css3/using-the-div-tag-to-create-tables/ https://htmlformatter.com/ https://www.w3schools.com/htmL/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_migrate_7 --> <style type="text/css"> </style> </head> <body style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <br> <div class="Table" style="border-style: solid; text-align: center; border-color: #5A697D; border-width: 16px;"> <!-- ============NewRow============== --> <p></p> <div class="Row" style="border-style: solid solid solid solid; border-width: 4px; border-color: #000000;"> <div class="Cell" style="width: 25%; border-style: solid; border-color: #FF0000; background-color: D3DDEB; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; "> <p style="border-style: solid; border-color: #0000FF; background-color: D3DDEB"> Row 1 Column 1 <br><img src="Empty.png" alt="Empty.png"></p> </div> <!-- <div class="Cell" --> <div class="Cell" style="width:70%; border-style: solid; border-color: #00FF00; background-color: 000000; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; "> <p> Row 1 Column 2 <br><img src="Empty.png" alt="Empty.png"> </p> </div> <!-- <div class="Cell" --> </div> <!-- <div class="Row" --> </div> <!-- <div class="Table"> --> </body> </html> Please what am I doing wrong ? Thanks Edited Saturday at 11:53 PM by vmars316 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dsonesuk 807 Report post Posted Sunday at 12:14 AM What is missing from border colour used compared to the background colour used, non of the six alpha-numeric hex colour characters will not show any colour without it at the beginning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vmars316 1 Report post Posted Sunday at 12:56 AM Ugh ! Thanks dsonesuk , Sorry , I missed that . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
