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

Posted by Cayla Mello
Cayla Mello
1,845 Points

Please help me with this code challenge

Challenge task 2 of 4: Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value. I put p{ color: #111; }

Can someone tell me where I went wrong?

3 Answers

Blake Hutchinson
Blake Hutchinson
21,695 Points

Cayla, if you're setting the paragraph color to black using hexadecimal values (in an HTML or CSS document), then what they're looking for specifically is something like

p { color: #000; }

or

p { color: #000000; }
Adam Evans
Adam Evans
6,975 Points
Adam Evans
Adam Evans
6,975 Points

I am not entirely sure, but they are probably looking for #000.

Cayla Mello
Cayla Mello
1,845 Points
Cayla Mello
Cayla Mello
1,845 Points

Thank you! For some reason I had it in my mind that 1's were the lowest. How silly!

Blake Hutchinson
Blake Hutchinson
21,695 Points

You're welcome, Cayla. If you decide to study JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, or something else, then you'll find out most programming languages are 0-based, especially with arrays where the first item is "0". If you're running Chrome, Firefox, or Opera, you'll have a Console where you can try out different JavaScript commands.

array = ["milk","honey","bread"];
array[0];