HTML and CSS is not working?

Question

I am really new when it comes to web programming, specially when it comes to HTML and CSS, I was reading the Head first book by O reily and there was this example that is no

Answer 1

instead of (shift+') to get "

do not press shift and then press '+' to get ''

Simple yet I had the exact same problem until Rob's post.

Answer 2

I pasted your code directly into jsfiddle and the CSS was not applied to the document. Try changing the curly quotes (style type=”text/css”) to regular quotes (style type="text/css") and try again.

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/dPdHu/