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Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
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Posted by Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
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styles.css

I was wondering why the background color value /element(don't really know the correct term) was in numbers before Treasure changed them to 'blue' or 'white' when she was playing with the CSS. Formerly, it was a number, I think something like '#222'

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joelearner
joelearner
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Hi Enemuo,

It sounds like Treasure was using hexadecimal values for the color on the website. There are many ways to place color on a website including RGB(red, green, blue), CMYK(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), and keywords like blue or orange.

Hexadecimal numbers can also be used to display color. The #222 is the short hexadecimal version of #222222. All hex values have the # and 6 numbers following the #. The hex number is considered 3 pairs of numbers, so if you have #ab2278, then ab is the first pair, 22 is the second pair, and 78 is the third pair. Since #222222 has three pairs of 2, it can be shortened to #222. Does this help?

Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
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Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
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Great ! this helped a lot. Thanks