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

Eric Crescioni
Eric Crescioni
1,315 Points
Posted by Eric Crescioni
Eric Crescioni
1,315 Points

What am I doing wrong? I need to set the paragraphs to black color. I've written: p { color: #000; } didn't work!

I've written: p { color: #000; } didn't work!

4 Answers

Greg Adams
Greg Adams
13,268 Points
Greg Adams
Greg Adams
13,268 Points

Hi Eric-

I ran #000 through this exercise and it worked- did you use O instead of zeros?

Spencer Ward
Spencer Ward
9,433 Points
Spencer Ward
Spencer Ward
9,433 Points

I would check the hierarchy of your code and also slowly go through each line and make sure you have all the opening and closing tags

Eric Crescioni
Eric Crescioni
1,315 Points
Eric Crescioni
Eric Crescioni
1,315 Points

I refreshed the page and it passed. Thanks for your help guys!

Tobias Mahnert
Tobias Mahnert
89,414 Points
Tobias Mahnert
Tobias Mahnert
89,414 Points

The Code Below passes the challenge, if you want to know why, please let me know. Also rate my answer as best answer if it helped you.

Cheers

h1, h2 {
color: #fff; 
}
p {
color: #000;
}

nav a {
color: #fff;
}
nav a:hover {

color: #32673f;

}