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

JONATHAN PACHA
JONATHAN PACHA
12,039 Points
Posted by JONATHAN PACHA
JONATHAN PACHA
12,039 Points

the question is asking me to set the paragraphs to black. I am not quite sure what i am doing wrong

i tried body, #p, (p) and i cant get it to go through

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

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

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

h1, h2{
 color: #fff; 
}

#p {
  color: #111;
}

2 Answers

Garrett Levine
Garrett Levine
20,305 Points
Garrett Levine
Garrett Levine
20,305 Points

While #111 may be considered a shade of black, I imagine that answer they are looking for is along the lines of;

p { color: #000; }

or

p { color: black; }

mikes02
PLUS
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points
mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Nicolas is providing the right answer but to elaborate on that answer the reason it is not working for you is because you are selecting #p, which means you are looking for an element that has an ID of p. In order for your code to work you would need to use:

<p id="p">This is my paragraph text.</p>

However, the challenge is asking you to style the paragraph, so you are not looking for a unique ID, instead you are looking for the paragraph element, so you want to use the element selector, which is simply

p {
color: #000;
}

or

p {
color: black;
}