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

Posted by Roselyn Richards
Roselyn Richards
436 Points

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

I'm stuck on question 2 of the CSS color portion of the class. Someone please help!!!!! I'm dying here

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

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

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

3 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Roselyn,

You got the first Task Correct :thumbsup:

The second task is the same thing. First, remember, while CSS and HTML work very closely together, the CSS file doesn't understand HTML tags, as you have place for the paragraph.

So, with that in mind, and looking back at Task one, Task two wants you to select the paragraph tags (same way as the h1, h2, etc.) and change to black. So, you don't need the body selector, you want the p.

p {
  color: #000;
}

Keep Coding! :dizzy:

Roselyn Richards
Roselyn Richards
436 Points

Thanks for breaking it down. I think I was on auto pilot during this section. Your answer was helpful

Jennifer Nordell
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STAFF
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! It seems you've gotten CSS and HTML a little confused here. In your CSS you've written this: 

body {
  <p>color: #000;<p/>
}

What you should try writing is this: 

p {
   color: #000;
}

The CSS I gave selects the the paragraph element and adds the hexadecimal color of black. You should probably reset the body to whatever it was originally. Angle brackets aren't used in CSS ... only HTML. Happy coding!

Roselyn Richards
Roselyn Richards
436 Points

Thank you!!

David Thomas
PLUS
David Thomas
Courses Plus Student 21,263 Points
David Thomas
David Thomas
Courses Plus Student 21,263 Points

not quite right. thats HTML markup in CSS. you beed to change body to the p selector

```h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

p { color: #000; }```

Roselyn Richards
Roselyn Richards
436 Points

Thanks