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

Justine Crowley
Justine Crowley
289 Points
Posted by Justine Crowley
Justine Crowley
289 Points

CSS cide challenge issue (Challenge task 2 of 4): Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value

Challenge task 2 of 4 in CSS - Im stuck!

Task: Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value

The code I entered:

header { background: #6ab47b: border color: #599a68: }

h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

nav a, nav a:visited { color: #040000; }

body { background-color; #fff; color: #040000; }

Note: checked the w3schools page, and #040000 is the hex code I got for black.

Result:

Bummer! Double check that you've styled paragraph (p) elements to be black with a hexidecimal value.

Your help and feedback is much greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Justine

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

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

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

a {
  color; #6ab47b:
}

header {
  background: #6ab47b:
    border color: #599a68:
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #040000;
}

body {
  background-color; #fff;
  color: #040000;
}

1 Answer

Nadiia Sydorova
Nadiia Sydorova
6,151 Points
Nadiia Sydorova
Nadiia Sydorova
6,151 Points

Hi Justine, selector for paragraph is p, value for black is #000000 (or #000 as short-code).

So in your CSS file you should've typed in: p{ color:#000; }