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

Posted by Chase Donohue
Chase Donohue
2,520 Points

I am having trouble Setting the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value. What should this look like?

I currently have it set to p {color: 111111;} I received the following error. Double check that you've styled paragraph (p) elements to be black with a hexidecimal value. What is incorrect?

3 Answers

Jason Jones
Jason Jones
18,663 Points

You have two issues:

  1. The correct hex value for is #000000.
  2. You forget the '#'

This website is a good reference for hex values.

John Leskas
John Leskas
24,093 Points
John Leskas
John Leskas
24,093 Points

Also if you have color values like #33333 , #000000, #cccccc , you can also use them with the shorthand #333, #000 and #ccc for example. In a big css file with many values, you save some space in the final file.

Chase Donohue
Chase Donohue
2,520 Points
Chase Donohue
Chase Donohue
2,520 Points

got it thank you very much!