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

Posted by Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

Hi guys! Does anyone know how to set the color of paragraphs to black using a hexadecimal value?

I thought it was p..

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 {
  color: #fff
}
Liam Topham
Liam Topham
2,691 Points

Hi Daphne, It looks like you're missing the semi colon's off the end of your statements.

Liam

5 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Daphne Cornelisse! First of all, you're doing great. Liam Topham is correct. You're missing a couple of semicolons. But the bigger problem here is that you didn't set your paragraph to black... you set it to white! :smiley: Remember white is the reflection of all colors simultaneously. Black is the absorption of all colors. So white is #fff and black is #000. Take a look:

h1,h2 {

  color: #fff;
}

p {
  color: #000;
}

Happy coding! :dizzy:

Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

Thanks Jennifer! I got it !

Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

Would you like to have a chat? Add me on facebook; Daphne Cornelisse :)

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

color: #000;

Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

Thanks!

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Semicolons! :) But if it's one line it should work anyways.

Heres the wheel

You got hex and rgb.

It will tell you what hex it is , the current color, as well as rgb, which is usefull if you want to make the color transparent.

Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

Thank you Konrad!

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

If anyone is interested to join a slack channel here feel free to do so! We help each other, chat about the code, and other things, and overall, knowing other people in the same field :)

Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

Hi, I subscribed to slack, I made an account.. but what to do now?

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Hi, What is your nickname on slack? Check your email and you can either log into it from the browser, or with a desktop app.

Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points
Daphne Cornelisse
Daphne Cornelisse
1,906 Points

My nickname is just daphne .. cant find you

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Iv send you a message on slack.