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

Posted by Annie Lo
Annie Lo
333 Points

How to set the color of paragraphs to black?

Thanks for your reply in advance!

3 Answers

Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor
5,076 Points
Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor
5,076 Points 
p {
   color:black; <---- for font
   background-color:black; <--- for background....
}
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

And if you're looking for the hex value it's:

p {
  color: #000;
}
Adam Moore
Adam Moore
21,956 Points
Adam Moore
Adam Moore
21,956 Points

You don't actually even need the word "-color" tagged onto the end of "background," because background: black or background: #000, as Dustin said, will work just as well.