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

How would you set the color of paragraphs to black using hexadecimal system?

I put:

p a { color: #111; }

is this correct??

4 Answers

Hi Micah, Good job,

000 is a shorthand code for color black

000000 is longhand code for color black

You can print/save on your computer a list of hexadecimal color codes (It is way too hard to remember them).

i thought black hexadecimal value was #000000

dunno

well as long as u selected

the right class and paragraph

p a { color: #000000; }

or

p a { color: black; }

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