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

Posted by april
april
690 Points

Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value. Is this question referring to text color or background

I am stuck - do not know the answer.

Also not clear if they want the text black or the background black.

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

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

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

 h1, h2 {
    color: #fff;
  }

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

2 Answers

Maximillian Fox
PLUS
Maximillian Fox
Courses Plus Student 9,236 Points
Maximillian Fox
Maximillian Fox
Courses Plus Student 9,236 Points

I believe they mean the text within the paragraphs. The CSS has the color property for setting the colour of your text within an element.

So you will need to create a CSS selector for the paragraph or <p> tag like this:

p {

}

Now for this p selector, apply the color property

p {
  color: #000;
}

I can see you've got it under the body selector, so just create the p tag as above and move that from the body to the p selector. Also, don't forget that semicolon! :)

Morgan Hayes
Morgan Hayes
677 Points
Morgan Hayes
Morgan Hayes
677 Points

still doesnt work! That's why I'm here. I put

p { color: #000; }

to begin with. Still nothing.