How to determine the background color

[damiende]

I have changed the look for Rmtexposed

I want the ads to blend in better with the background color of the sidebars. But I have been looking through the css files and can't find it for the life of me.

Is there any other way of finding out colors and things like that. Like a program.

[Ferox]

I'm not sure, I tried to view your source to see what colours were used, but could only find one and I'm not sure what that produced.

You can browse through different colours here and see if you can get close. It's not particularly effcient, but it might help. It's what Iv'e always used when picking colours.

Neutrals Hex Color Codes: Hexadecimal codes for named colors used in HTML page features

[PaulR]

I think the color is #F3F1D8

Your css for the sidebar looks like it's

#sidebar {width:390px; background-color:#F3F1D8;float:left; margin-left:10px; font-size:11px; padding:5px;}

Best of luck

[thenetfool]

There's a color sampler plugin for firefox, look into it. It makes a little tool in the bottom right where you can click anywhere on your screen and get the exact hex code for the color... really saved me tons of time.

[PaulR]

Forgot to add, the firefox add on jsview rocks,
lets you see sites external files.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2076

[doorlight]

Printscreen? and paste it on Photoshop or any program. That's what I do.

[doorlight]

Originally Posted by thenetfool

There's a color sampler plugin for firefox, look into it. It makes a little tool in the bottom right where you can click anywhere on your screen and get the exact hex code for the color... really saved me tons of time.

Hey, thank you for the great tip.

[Nadzmc]

Here's the easiest way.. Print the Screen, using the Print Screen button on your keyboard, paste it in Photoshop, Dreamweaver of Frontpage, use the color picker to pick the color, and find the hex code given.

Cheers!

[Steve]

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