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

Posted by Getrude Ndhlovu
Getrude Ndhlovu
5,053 Points

set the color of paragrapphs to black using a hexadecimal value

set the color of paragrapphs to black using a hexadecimal value

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

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 5%;
}

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

9{
  color:#6ab47b:
}

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

h1,h2{
  color:#fff;
}

nav{
background:#599a68;
}

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

nav a.selected,nav a:hover {
 color:#32673f;
}

body{ 
  background-color: #fff;
color:#999;
}

2 Answers

Clayton Tevebaugh
Clayton Tevebaugh
7,617 Points
Clayton Tevebaugh
Clayton Tevebaugh
7,617 Points

Are you asking how to do this?

It would look like this in the CSS:

p {
  color: #000;
}

0 in hex is black, the higher the number the lighter the color. For example #fff is white.

Also #000 is the shorthand of #000000. Hexidecimal numbers come in pairs so each pair can be shorthanded if they are repeating. For example: #112233 = #123

Frank Bloemendal
Frank Bloemendal
7,326 Points
Frank Bloemendal
Frank Bloemendal
7,326 Points

You have no code for the paragraphs. You can change the color for paragraph text by adding:

p { color: #000; }