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

Posted by Tatar Mircea Roland
Tatar Mircea Roland
2,314 Points

Which are the paragraphs that I need to change color to black in the CSS Hexadecimal colors part of Creating a site?

I'm at the hexadecimal colors part of the css lessons in Making a website, it's asking me to change colors to black , I know how to do that, but I don't know what's the selector id called for the paragraphs

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

3 Answers

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

p

Same as the tag you use in html ( minus the two angle brackets < > ).

<p>Make me black!</p>

p {
    color:black;
    color:#000000;
    color:#000;
}

Each of those css properties will change the font to black, choose one.

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

The HTML tags for paragraphs are <p> ( or just p in CSS).

SAMUEL LAWRENCE
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
Courses Plus Student 8,447 Points
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
Courses Plus Student 8,447 Points

Hi Jason, in CSS to target an element in the HTML file you simple type the name of the tag without the angled brackets, or type selectors. Example to target the <p> paragraph element, just type p followed by two curly brackets.

p { write rule here: color; }