Now that you know how to select elements, let’s make them look better by changing colors and controlling their size. These are two of the most common things you’ll do in CSS, so it’s important to understand them clearly.

Colors in CSS

There are a few different ways to write colors in CSS. Let’s go through them one by one.

Named colors

CSS has a list of built-in color names you can use, like red, blue, or green.

h1 {
  color: red;
}

This makes all <h1> text red. You can see all the colors from THIS PAGE HERE

Hex codes

A hex code starts with # and is followed by six characters. These characters are made from numbers 0–9 and letters A–F.