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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Taylor Gentle
Taylor Gentle
501 Points
Posted by Taylor Gentle
Taylor Gentle
501 Points

Color shorthand?

I'm still not really grasping how the Hexadecimal shorthand can be used...is it only in cases where the color you're using is a single digit? (i.e. #fff or #888)

1 Answer

Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

You can use shorthand when the digits are repeated:

334455 = #345

123456 = cannot be made shorthand.

Taylor Gentle
Taylor Gentle
501 Points
Taylor Gentle
Taylor Gentle
501 Points

Ohh okay! That makes sense. Thank you!