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

Posted by Nagi Dia
Nagi Dia
604 Points

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

Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: #000000;
}

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

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}
h1,h2{ color: #fff;
}
a{ color: #fff;}
header{ background: green;
  border-color: orange;}

nav { background:#000000;}
nav a, nav a{ color:#000000;}
nav a, nav a:visited{color:#000000;}
nav a.selected,nav a:hover{color:#000000;}
body{ color:#000000;
background-color: #fff;}
Angela Bortone
Angela Bortone
7,405 Points
Angela Bortone
Angela Bortone
7,405 Points

Select the paragraph with the p selector. Use the color property with the value #000 to alter the text color.

2 Answers

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Nagi,

The paragraph tag is p and the colour black in hexadecimal is #00000. Now you just need to set the background-color

Nagi Dia
Nagi Dia
604 Points
Nagi Dia
Nagi Dia
604 Points

Thank you so much :)