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

Tenzin Kungatsang
Tenzin Kungatsang
367 Points
Posted by Tenzin Kungatsang
Tenzin Kungatsang
367 Points

Set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value.

how to set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal?

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 a {
  color: #888888;
}

2 Answers

jag
jag
18,266 Points
jag
jag
18,266 Points 
/* Select p {} not p a{}*/

p{
/* Change Color Here */
}
Philip Gales
Philip Gales
15,193 Points
Philip Gales
Philip Gales
15,193 Points

To elaborate more on jag's answer, when you select "p a" you are selecting all links within paragraphs. "p" are paragraphs as you know, while "a" is referring to links. Remove the "a" and it will change the color of paragraphs and not links found within paragraphs.

p {
  color: #888888;
}