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

Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points
Posted by Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points

nav a - why won't this work?

I'm working through some of the basic challenge tasks for CSS and am coming unstuck with colouring nav anchors white. I've tried:

nav a { color: #fff }

nav a { color: #ffffff; }

and

nav a { color: #FFF }

but keep getting error messages, any ideas where I'm going 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 {
  background: #000000;
}

nav a {
  color: #FFF;
}
Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points
Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points

OK, so in the end I had to copy and paste from a forum answer and the following worked:

p { color: #000000; }

nav a { color: #ffffff; }

It seems to be the 'background' on P that was being pushed back on, changing it to 'color' worked fine.

Muhammad Ehsan Hanif
Muhammad Ehsan Hanif
8,236 Points
Muhammad Ehsan Hanif
Muhammad Ehsan Hanif
8,236 Points

Hi nav a { color: #fff; } is the correct CSS for coloring nav anchors. At which task you are stuck in the challenge?

1 Answer

Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points
Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points

Thanks Muhammad, I think what confused me was that I got the error message on the next task (ie, after adding the nav a syntax) so thought the error must have been in the nav line, not the p one.