FAQ: CSS Color - Foreground vs Background

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Foreground vs Background” exercise from the lesson “CSS Color”.

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Hi! I realize my question is not directly related to the topic, but I think I’m missing a couple of important things here.
I noticed that the regions in index.html for this exercise has their contents (<h2>, <p> and <a>) enclosed in <li> tags. I assume that it might be that way for semantic purposes. If so, when should you do this as opposed to using combinations of other semantic tags?
For example like so:

<section>
  <article>
    <h2></h2>
    <p></p>
    <a></a>
  </article>
   .
   .
   .
  <article>
    <h2></h2>
    <p></p>
    <a></a>
  </article>
</section>
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Hi, just letting you know, the first instruction doesn’t get applied, I’ve tried everything I can think of, using HEX, RGB, I even click on the solution copy paste it and nothing, the color on the h1 heading doesn’t change, the background color does though.

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First, Codecademy’s HTML tends not to use the more semantic tags. My theory is that the courses were not updated with the release of the newer, more semantically accurate tags (like <section>, for instance).

Second, in this instance, using <li> can be considered correct as they are LISTING regions and describing them. This could also be applied to the roasting levels, IMO

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Hi, please can I get an explanation to why color: midnight-blue; override the existing color: #41292C; for h1

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Thank you very much codedcolt0961340047

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Just to show how its done.

9

Does foreground color affect anything other than the text color?
For example, color: red; changes the text to red.
Are there any examples where color: red; change the color of anything besides the text to red?

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This isn’t only happening for this lesson, but every time I enter CSS properties, when I press “run”, it tells me I didn’t enter what I was told to in the instructions. I view the solutions every time, and there is no difference between my code and the correct code.

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I was curious about the usage of li element here and thanks for the explanation!

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Why was I not able to change the foreground color in .header class while I was able to change it when I edited .h1 class?

In the HTML file
the header has a class header and has a h1 element in it.

I am confused.

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I would think that it might be because the header class is given to the <div> that is containing the <h1> and not the <h1> it self which has it’s own declaration.