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

Posted by p siddhu
p siddhu
268 Points

how to change

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

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

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

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}
a {
        color: #6ab47b;
    }

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

    }
    h1, h2 {
        color: #fff;
    }

    h1 {
        color: #ffffff;
    }
    h2 {
        color: #ffffff;
    }

    nav {
        background: #599a68;
    }


    nav a, nav a:Visited {
        color: #fff;
    }

    nav a.selected {
    color:  #32673f; 
 } 

    body {
        background-color:   #fff;
        color:  #999;
    }

1 Answer

Daniel Gauthier
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 Points
Daniel Gauthier
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 Points

Hey P,

The code below passes, and it's a lot like what they ask you to do in the first part of the code challenge:

p {
 color: #000; 
}

You can also use #000000 as the value since #000 is shorthand for #000000.

Good luck!