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

Posted by April Ehrlich
April Ehrlich
4,164 Points

Not accepting my code

This challenge is asking me to style paragraph elements to be black with a hexidecimal value. The CSS code I am using is:

body {
   color: #000;
}

It doesn't seem to be accepting that answer. I have also tried

body {
   background-color: #fff;
   color: #000;
}

and 

body {
   background-color: #fff;
   color: #000000;
}

Edit: Here is the overall code from the challenge

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

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

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

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

body {
  color: #000;
}

4 Answers

Ian Keith
Ian Keith
15,720 Points

You need to be more specific. Since the challenge wants you to style just the paragraph elements, you need to select them.

p {
  color: #000;
}
Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points
Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points

Which elements is it asking you to style? ;) (i.e. not body)

James Gill
PLUS
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points
James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

Paragraph elements (<p>) are not body elements (<body>). Try switching that.

April Ehrlich
April Ehrlich
4,164 Points
April Ehrlich
April Ehrlich
4,164 Points

Oh! That's so odd because they didn't tell me how to style paragraph elements in the previous tutorial video. Just body text. I guess they DO provide the little (p) as an indicator. Well, thanks!