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

4 Answers

If you mean you want all paragraphs to have the color red then like this:

p {
  color: red;
}

You should probably watch the videos on this again because you will need it later on.

Christopher Holmes
Christopher Holmes
429 Points

thanks. i was being smart and using #111. duh.

Nick Nish
Nick Nish
7,304 Points

Hey Chris! You're free to use named colors, but most of them are pretty bad looking. The same way you'd use their names, add in HEX colors using the (#).

p {  color: #222; }
Christopher Holmes
Christopher Holmes
429 Points

thanks. i was being smart and using #111. duh.

Yeah for black you'll need #000 and white #fff