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

6 Answers

The shorthand hex colour for black is #000. Do you want to set the text or the background to black?

Have pasted a link to the code below. This should work

http://codepen.io/jocavagnis/pen/yxiIl/

Edited to say: make sure to add to the code towards to the top of your css

No problem :)