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

Virochaan Ravi
Virochaan Ravi
6,940 Points
Posted by Virochaan Ravi
Virochaan Ravi
6,940 Points

How do you get the paragraphs to be black using hexadecimals?

I can't get it to turn black. It keeps on saying I got it wrong.

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

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

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

h1, h2{
  color: #fff;
}

p{
  color: #111111;
}
Brian Steele
Brian Steele
23,060 Points
Brian Steele
Brian Steele
23,060 Points

Well, I'd check the hex value inside the p selector to ensure you've really got black declared (hint, it's not #111)

1 Answer

David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points
David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points

To get black you need to go all the way down to #000 (or #000000). #111 (or #111111) is very dark gray, but not black.