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

Stuck on hexadecimal exercise

when prompted to set the color of anchors within the nav element to white, i enter the following:

nav a { color: #fff }

apparently this is not correct and I cannot seem to figure out the answer. any advice?

9 Answers

switching web browsers seemed to solve the problem. thanks again for your help.

Forgot your semicolon ;-)

jason Clark
jason Clark
2,429 Points

you need to add a semi colon after #fff;

still no dice unfortunately, i had been including the semicolon in my code but forgot it to put it in the prompt. any other thoughts?

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question:Set the color of anchor elements inside the nav element to white using a hexadecimal value.

code:

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; }

logo {

text-align: center; margin: 0; }

h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

p { color: #000; }

nav a { color: #fff; }

Hm, beats me..

Are you using Chrome on OS X? I think I read something about it being buggy atm. Maybe try a different browser or a restart of the browser.

You can also try typing out the full hexadecimal value (#FFFFFF), or maybe just in caps (#FFF).

I just took the challenge and succeeded using the shorthand hexadecimal value in caps (#FFF).

I can see nothing wrong with your code.

I am using chrome so I will give it a shot with another browser. Thanks for your input.

You're welcome - let me know if it works for you.