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Arum Mohee
1,288 Points"set the colour of paragraphs to black using the hexadecimal value" i dont understand
a { text-decoration: none; }
wrapper {
max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; }
logo {
text-align: center; margin: 0; }
h1, h2 { color: #fff; }
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
#wrapper {
max-width: 940px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#logo {
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
}
h1, h2 {
color: #fff;
}
3 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYou're doing great so far! You've already set h1 and h2 to white with hexadecimal. Now you just need paragraph in black with hexadecimal. Take a look:
p {
color: #000;
}
fff is white. #000 is black :) Happy coding!
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsI would totally recommend to rewatch the video how he explains it.
Short answer: HEX, in the code woudl stand rgb which means red, green and blue. These colors creates any color that we see on the screen. They make all the colors mixed. if you write rgba (alpha) then you can change their opacity.
I don't know if thats any good, i hope it is to some degree, but you should rewatch the video again. They explain it perfectly. If not, then ill get into more details.
And if im right, HEX = 6, so we have also a 6 digit color naming. Like #000000 for black. Like with Jennifer.
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherIt's hex is the short word for hexadecimal... base 16. Where numbering starts from 0 and goes to 255 giving us a total of 256. Base 6 counting is known as "senary".
I'm going to use ^ here to denote "to the power of" because I can't seem to get superscript to work in markdown.
In the case of #FFFFFF what you have is three sets of numbers squished together. FF is equivalent to (16^0 * 15) + (16^1 * 15). When you add those together... you get 255. So it really does say 255 255 255 but in base 16. Just thought I'd make things even more confusing :P
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsYeah :D Didn't revise it for a while. Thank you :D I think im gonna need to watch some old treehouse vidoes just for pure revise :D
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 PointsGiving direct answers, not a good idea!
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 PointsGo back to your videos and find your answer. just solving coding challenges won't help you really(just a suggestion).
Arum Mohee
1,288 Pointsthank you sorry of the late reply Tushar Singh
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsKonrad Pilch
2,435 PointsLol, I need to refresh :D i just got confused with the names xD
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsKonrad Pilch
2,435 PointsJust to add. Jennifer wrote the code in shorthand. That means if it repeats all the way along, you can short it to half.
So a color black woudl be #000000, but we can short it to #000.
If we got a color thats #CR9324, it needs to have all 6digits.
Arum Mohee
1,288 PointsArum Mohee
1,288 PointsThanks Jennifer Cordell, sorry for the late reply i was too busy revising for my GCSE'S
much appreciated again!