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Use CSS

Key Takeaways About HTML
- Use CSS Choose a color for the content.
- While you can use basic colors (like "red") to color your text, you'll still need to use the HTML color generator to create more tones: Visit
- Select the background color you want to use in the hexagon at the top of the page.
Choose a color for the content. While you can use basic colors (like "red") to color your text, you'll still need to use the HTML color generator to create more tones:
Visit https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp in your computer's browser.
Select the background color you want to use in the hexagon at the top of the page.
Drag down the color tone you want to use on the right side of the page.
Note down the 6-character code to the right of the color tone.

Open the HTML document. This is the text whose font color you want to change.
If you don't have an HTML document yet, create one before continuing.

Find the content you want to colorize. Scroll through the text until you find the paragraph, heading, or other content you want to color.

Note the content's tags. For example, if content is a heading, you'll see "
" in Front of

" with the Tag for the Content You Want to Color)
{ Color: Red; }

Review the text. The page heading will look like this:
FAQ
How do you Use Text Color Tags in HTML?
Use CSS Choose a color for the content.
What should you check before working with HTML?
While you can use basic colors (like "red") to color your text, you'll still need to use the HTML color generator to create more tones: Visit https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp in your computer's browser.
What can you do if the first method does not work?
Select the background color you want to use in the hexagon at the top of the page.
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