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

Posted by Amy Hood
Amy Hood
551 Points

can't figure out what I'm doing wrong to style the paragraph color

It wants me to color the paragraph black, and I typed in what I thought was right, but it doesn't seem to be working. I probably did it wrong, but not sure how to look up how to do it right.

3 Answers

Thomas K
Thomas K
11,565 Points

EDIT: Fixed the semicolon 

p{color:#000;}
Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points
Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points

Actually...

p {
     color:#000;
}

Coding on one line can be dangerous. I believe that the code you provided would work, but only for one line. :)

Patrick Koch
Patrick Koch
40,498 Points
Patrick Koch
Patrick Koch
40,498 Points

Does it tells you if the background(background-color) or the text(color:) needs to be black? the values you enter can be #000000(the same as #000) or rgb(0,0,0).

Amy Hood
Amy Hood
551 Points
Amy Hood
Amy Hood
551 Points

I'm such a dummy! I just had to write a simple "p" and then the curly brackets. Thanks guys!