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does anyone have a good link to a html color chart or tool where i can click on exactly the color i want and it shows me the html color for it.

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Assuming you're using Windows, here's a neat app I used to use often:

Pixie

If you're on OS X and you're doing any sort of web coding without using coda, you should really try coda.

If you want some lame browser-based one, I guess this would work.

Sneakyness
this tool is perfect for what i need . . thanks !!!
ooo
I tried Pixie. It's brilliant! Small and simple, does exactly what it's intended to (pick colors on the screen in color picker or HTML hex code) and nothing more...! I specially liked that it is one single exe with size just 11.5KB!
awe
It is a very excellent app. I haven't used windows since late 2006, and I'll never forget that application for it's handiness. Of course, OS X's color picker has the same functionality by default. It's the little things that I find myself appreciating the most.
Sneakyness
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Just to keep you spoiled for choice...

Color Scheme Designer 3

Andrew Shepherd
this is very cool as well .. the thing i like about the top one is that i can point to some other section of a website and get that color without having to search through the css text
ooo
I always did like that as a feature myself, the other thing I loved about it was the shortcut keys. It made things extremely fast.
Sneakyness
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awe
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If you prefer open-source, platform independent tools, I suggest you try out colorPicker which is a handy Adobe AIR utility that might serve your purpose. Some info about it from the site:

colorPicker is a widget-like AIR application that lets you either choose a "web-safe" color from a color grid or design a color using sliders to adjust the red, green, and blue values of the color. Once you have the color you want, you can click on the corresponding "Copy to Clipboard" button to copy the hexidecimal color code for the color and then paste it into your HTML code or your IDE. colorPicker also keeps a list of all of the colors you've copied to the clipboard during your session so that you can review them and copy the hex code to the clipboard again.

Aloch Rye
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Here are a few cool web based tools for finding the right colours... The first one on the list will even pick out a colour scheme based on an image you provide.

Peter Di Cecco