title: Background-color not working CSS in Class
body: <p>I have the following CSS code. For some reason, the background-color is not working. can somebody pls help?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
  &lt;!--Inform the Browser that the document is HTML--&gt;
  &lt;html  lang="en-US"&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
  
  &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
  
  
  .leftpane{
  
  width: 20%;
  height: 80%;
  border-color: brown;
  border-width: .25em;
  border-style: double;
  float: left;
  margin-right: 1em
  background-color: orange;
  
  }
  
  
  
  &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Trying CSS &lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="leftpane"&gt;
  hi hi hi
  &lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>