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

Posted by MUZ140981 Elvis Remwa
MUZ140981 Elvis Remwa
9,829 Points

HOW DO I Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value.

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

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

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}
h1, h2 {
    color: #fff;
}
h1, h2 {
    color: #000;
}
h1 { 
  color: #fff; 
} 
p h2 { 
  color: #000; 
}

3 Answers

Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points

to change the color of a text you use color: and to use hexadecimal values you start with a '#' followed by the value, this is usually a 6 digit number (hence hex) but with values like white and black you can use 3 (black is #000000), like so:

p { 
color: #000;
}

if it is the background you want to change use 'background-color', like so:

p { 
background-color: #000;
}

hope this helps!!

MUZ140933 Faith Shangwa
MUZ140933 Faith Shangwa
7,945 Points
MUZ140933 Faith Shangwa
MUZ140933 Faith Shangwa
7,945 Points

p { background-color: #000; }

MUZ140981 Elvis Remwa
MUZ140981 Elvis Remwa
9,829 Points
MUZ140981 Elvis Remwa
MUZ140981 Elvis Remwa
9,829 Points

thanks loads