Ok, here are steps for two major browsers:

In IE or Internet Explorer, go to your Main Menu, then to View, then own to Source.

Thats: Main Menu -> View -> Source

then upon clicking Source, a notepad window will pop open which will show web pages HTML source code for webpage, thats presently within your IE browser.

And in Netscape Navigator,... same thing,...

Main Menu -> View -> Page Source(Crtl+U)

then a Netscape Navigator window will open up, showing web page source code to webpage presently in Netscape. Now with Netscape, code is highlighted in viewer compared to in IE. This makes it a bit better and easier to understand if your familiar with HTML.

I say again, this assumes of course that you know basics of HTML code. However, if your at all knowledgeable in CSS, Javascript, Flash, and so on then you'll get more out of looking at source code.

Being able to view source code of webpages can be quite enlightening, believe it or not. This can be to perhaps get ideas for page layouts and/or keyword placement etc..

It can be a very valuable tool for Search Engine Optimizers to get a better understanding of optimizing a web page with meta tags and so on. And it can also provide a huge aid in learning HTML and understanding how others do it.

RGB Triplet for Cornflowerblue

color dec hex red 100 64 green 149 95 blue 237 ED

We could then specify color of text within a span using hexadecimal notation as shown below.

<span style="color:#6495ed;">Text</span>

Note that when we indicate use of hexadecimal notation by placing a pound (#) sign in front of number, and we don't use commas to separate color components.

If it's not easy to convert between decimal and hexadecimal in your head, then how do you do it? You can use a calculator that has a decimal to hexadecimal coversion function, or you can learn to think in hexadecimal. For example, what's next number after CE? That would be CF. what's next number after CF? That would be D0. Which hexadecimal number is higher 99 or B2? B2 would be higher than 99. It gets easier with experience.

Here's Java Script code for a simple decimal to hexidecimal color converter

function convert(decvalue) { var num = parseInt(decvalue); if(num >= 0 && num < 256) { var hexnum = num.toString(16); alert("#" + hexnum); } else {alert("Error!");} }

It's important to use hexadecimal notation to specify colors when you use DHTML with visual effects, because to create a dynamic color change you have to increment or add a value to a color. The vast amount of color specification on webpages is in hexadecimal notation, so it would be wise to become familiar with it.

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