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

Markus Lienhard
Markus Lienhard
835 Points
Posted by Markus Lienhard
Markus Lienhard
835 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 4 Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value. What did I do wrong?

p { color: #999; }

what do I do wrong?

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

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

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

p {
  color: #999;
}
tomvanbortel
tomvanbortel
2,020 Points

Mayby that (#999) isn't the color black.

4 Answers

Zoltán Holik
Zoltán Holik
3,401 Points
Zoltán Holik
Zoltán Holik
3,401 Points

Black not gray. :)

 p{
    color:#000;
}
George Deselop
George Deselop
799 Points
George Deselop
George Deselop
799 Points

The color black is HEX #000 or rgb( 0, 0, 0 ). Any case, just zero. :)

Jason Carr
Jason Carr
5,495 Points
Jason Carr
Jason Carr
5,495 Points

Try #000000 I mean six of them i was having the same problem but now it is solved