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**billa** · 16 March 2009, 04:46 PM

Hi Egg,

I remember reading many of your very insightful articles years ago. Glad to see you are also still around!

Code:

#container {
    text-align: left;
    margin: auto;
  padding-left: 1.2em;
    width: 850px;
    /* background: url(images/containerBG.png) repeat-y;          */
  background: #00CCCC;
  min-height: 100%;
}

Here is the code taken directly from the web page using Web Developer. I thought I had checked this when Gary wrote about transparency.

Xara Xtreme Color Gallery shows #00cccc and as you can see above the CSS is showing #00CCCC. I'm lost.

**Soquili** · 16 March 2009, 04:55 PM

Hello Bill,

The page background is indeed #00CCCC but the Animated Gif is using #00CACC. Using Xtreme's color picker when I get within a few pixels of the text in the banner the colour value changes. See attached image.

NOTE: If you right click the animation and "Save As" from the pop up menu, the background is #00cacc.

**billa** · 16 March 2009, 05:14 PM

Wow Soquili too!?!?!?

The whole triumvirate is still here and running the show. Thanks for that info. Obviously I don't know how to save the colo(u)r change in the color gallery, because I DID set it to #00CCCC but as you showed it is back to #00cacc.

Sorry to take up all this time with something so mundane for three great graphic artists but thanks anyway for the very prompt help.

BTW how did you get the tip to show the color parameters that are in your screenshot?

**Soquili** · 16 March 2009, 05:19 PM

Bill the tip is part of the Xtreme color picker that is beside the color line at the bottom of the screen. It displays the colour as you sample. There is a slight delay when you move the eye dropper cursor but as soon as you pause the popup tip displays again.

EDIT: I just made a test and the color picker on the Color Editor also displays the colour value. Too bad that the Print Screen key doesn't capture the cursor along with the screen.

**Egg Bramhill** · 17 March 2009, 01:13 AM

Hi Bill/s,

I found an inconst .... a problem with the colour picker here. When using the eyedroper the colour editor gave #00cacc but the pop up gave #00cccc. It varied, depending on whether I was sampling the page via a screen grab in XXP or whether it was outside the XXP window. It became quite confusing.

**Soquili** · 17 March 2009, 11:50 AM

Hi Egg,

I noticed similar inconsistancies (?sp). The banner gif itself is 602 x 148 pixels. The antialiasing seems to vary in distance from the banner to the page. Sometimes I get #00cccc very close to the text and some times I get #00cacc.

Saving the banner to my hard drive was how I noticed the background is consistantly #00cacc.