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

Posted by Michael Bredthauer
Michael Bredthauer
13,429 Points

problem with setting paragraph color

there wasn't an example of setting the paragraph color in the video and I cannot figure out the correct syntax to go it.

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

the CSS selector for paragraphs is 

 p {

}

you would need to use the color attribute to set the color

Michael Bredthauer
Michael Bredthauer
13,429 Points
Michael Bredthauer
Michael Bredthauer
13,429 Points

thanks ill give that a go

Patrick Toland
Patrick Toland
3,650 Points
Patrick Toland
Patrick Toland
3,650 Points

Code will look like this for example.

p { color: green; }