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channonhall
12,247 PointsThe quiz question is saying Bummer!
We can abbreviate the hex value #cc7733 to thats the question and I said orange did not work dark orange still did not work can anyone tell me why is this happening?
Thanks everyone
If you think i am a newbie thats ok because I am gonna be 10 years old :)
Jay Hao
Courses Plus Student 8,418 PointsHappy birthday man. I think you are gonna be 11 now.
channonhall
12,247 PointsThanks Jay, I am going to be 11 soon :)
3 Answers
Frederico Graciano
Courses Plus Student 2,768 PointsIf you think i am a newbie thats ok because I am gonna be 10 years old :) LOL chill ^^ no one is here thinking bad stuff about people, everybody that it's here it's learning. you'are so young and studying all this stuff instead of playing games all day... but you got play some games too, I do i have 900+ games on my pc LOL. btw LoL it's one.
I remember this video about the color values. I think the other guy already said but anytime that you have a hexadecimal value that repeats the same letter/number more then once you can make it shorter by removing one.
like Red : #CC3300
CC 33 00
RR GG BB make it shorter removing one character of each RGB.
C30, easy :)
Happy coding.
Nadia Masiero
3,468 PointsLol I'm 17. Big deal
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 PointsHey there, nice to see people your age getting into the coding world. As for your question i believe what they want is for you to abbreviate the hex value into #c73. When both values are repeated in each occasion of the rgb you can shorten it by just writing one value. Hope that helped, if not ask away maybe I can clarify further. good luck!
Nick Evershed
6,429 PointsAll I had to do was put the # before OOF
Isaac Asante
4,752 PointsIsaac Asante
4,752 PointsHey Channon, keep in mind that it's always important to follow the excercises' instructions carefully. Here, it's asking you to abbreviate the hex value and NOT find the equivalent color name. So it should give you a clue that this hex value can be shortened without altering the color. That's where you need to realize that each RED, GREED and BLUE color value is repeated in the hex value #cc7733.
In CSS, when using hex values, writing
ccfor the RED color value is the same as writingconly. Likewise having77for the GREEN color value is equal to having7only. And in the same logic,33for the BLUE color value is equal to3only.So, because hex values can only contain either 6 characters after the hashtag symbol (long value) or 3 characters after the hastag symbol (abbreviated value), then
#cc7733can be abbreviated as#c73.I hope I explained well and all the best!