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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Write Hexadecimal Colors

Posted by marinmirosevic
marinmirosevic
3,279 Points

Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value

Hello, Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value Not sure what exactly paragraphs refer to....

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}
h1, h2 { color: #fff; }
nav { background: #0000; }

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hexadecimal Values work on a Base16 numbering system. So they go from 0 to 9 and then on to A to F.

h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

This is an example of a hexadecimal value here on your headings level 1 and 2. That makes the text colour white.

So to get a black colour you'd write

p { color: #000;}
marinmirosevic
marinmirosevic
3,279 Points

thanks