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

Posted by Nhai Duong
Nhai Duong
3,711 Points

How can I set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value?

I code like this:

a{ color:#000; }

to change the color of paragraph to black but it can't work, so Can you tell me how I can fix it?

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

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

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

a{
  color:#000000;
}

header{
  background:#6ab47b;
  border-color:#599a68;
}

h1,h2{
  color:#fff;
}

nav{
  background:#000000;
}

nav a{
  color:#000000;
}
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points 
p{ color:#000; }

paragraph is p

please refer to documention on paragraph css.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_text-indent

Nhai Duong
Nhai Duong
3,711 Points

Oh thanks very much :)

2 Answers

efewafewa
efewafewa
21,825 Points
efewafewa
efewafewa
21,825 Points

You want

p { color: black }

a stands for anchor (links)

Warren Leyes
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Warren Leyes
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 31,808 Points
Warren Leyes
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Warren Leyes
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 31,808 Points

the question would be what are you trying to do? since I see you have multiple anchor declarations including text decoration, makes me wonder if you are actually trying to override the link colors? if so then you need to target using :link, :hover :visited and :active pseudo classes.