establishing what html code a certain colour is

[swedeheart]

Is there any way one might establish the html colour code of say for instance a background (or whatever) on a web site, short of writing them a letter and ask? I want to know the exact colour, so just looking at html colour code charts would not suffice.

[swedeheart]

Brilliant!!!! I had no idea you could look at the source code like that! (I should have added my usual "please explain as you would to your Granny"...) Thanks a lot neildownx, I found what I wanted!

[beso]

The colour is not always shown directly in the html code.
Indeed this alternative method is destined to become the norm.

Cascading Style Sheets define the properties (such as colour) of particular elements in the site. Content is assigned a style and the detail style information is held in a seperate file.

It is often called style.css but you can find the name of the stylesheet in the style statement in the headers of the page. Just look in their headers of their home page and get the path to the css file.

Put the full internet path for this file into the addressbar and yout browser will download it. Otherwise look in your browser cache.

[rojash]

A much easier way, is to install the free AdesClrPicker, which allows you to simply point at a colour on your screen (doesn't have to be on a web page, could be anything at all) and it will tell you the colour in any of a number of different coding systems, including RGB and HTML

http://www.adesdesign.net/php/products_color_p icker.php

[swedeheart]

Oh wow, that colour picker tool looks like my phantasy come true. I won't be needing it this time around (found what I wanted in the source code thanks to neildownx's reply) but I'll certainly save that link for future use rojash, thanks so much. And thank you beso, the less I install (right now) the better so I very much appreciate your alternative as well. Thanks guys!