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

cdatubo
cdatubo
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Posted by cdatubo
cdatubo
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CSS Challenge task 2

When I asked to set the paragraph color to black, my instinct was to use this code: p {color: #111}

What's incorrect about this? From what I've seen online, that's correct. Kind of confused...

Thanks for the help!

3 Answers

Logan R
Logan R
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Logan R
Logan R
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Try using color: #000 as 000 is black and 111 is slightly black. #111 has 11 red, 11 blue and 11 green.

Jacob Miranda
Jacob Miranda
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Jacob Miranda
Jacob Miranda
19,392 Points

You can use keywords for colors, so for code challenges you could just use the keyword "black" to get that color instead of using a hexadecimal value

**I just saw the tag says "Write Hexadecimal Colors" so I guess you shouldn't use keywords. I would stick to the full value, #000000 just to be safe.

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

For this challenge, it says to specifically use hexadecimals.

cdatubo
cdatubo
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cdatubo
cdatubo
550 Points

Thanks guys! I had a huge DUH! moment after my pomodoro break lol .#000 worked :)