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Hi!

I went into the help with BBcode page, and then clicked on the link for HEX code, and was brought into a site where it said it was dangerous and that someone might try and steal my information. Has anyone else experienced that? That dosen't usually happen and I'm worried right now. My antivirus immediately caught that my laptop might be potentionally unprotected, and running a scan right now.

I have now experienced the same thing with CSStutorial.net.

Weird.

I'm... too lazy to go looking right now, but I somehow willing to explain color hex real quick, if that helps any?

First, there's actually a lot of named colors. Guessing the names without a list isn't a lot of fun, though.

So, as the name should imply, color hexes are 6 characters. They can be 0-9 and a-f, and they follow the rules of the light color spectrum (which is a little different from the more commonly known pigment color spectrum). This means that the more color you put in, the lighter your end product. 0 is the lowest; all 0 will produce black. F is the highest; all F will produce white.

The six characters are paired for 3 colors. The first pair is red, the second pair is green, and the third pair is blue. (An aside: since they are paired, you can actually do a 3-character color. For example, #ff0000 and #f00 are the same color. The 3 character thing has a more limited palette, though.)

This means that FF0000 displays as red. It has the maximum amount of red light showing, but no light from another color. 00FF00 is green, and 0000FF is blue. You can add a color to the mix by increasing the value shown in its pair.

Something that might be helpful: you can get a browser extension to help you! I have a Colorzilla color picker for Google Chrome, and it lets me select a color from the page as well as coming with a few other nifty little tools.

I appreciate your help very much! Though that is not exactly what I'm looking for, but still helps me understand HEX code.

What I meant was that I am beginning to make a custom template, and I went into "How does BBcode work?" here on RPR. I scrolled down to "Font color", where I clicked the Hex code link. And then when I followed that link, I was brought into that page where it said it was dangerous, and that someone might try to steal my information, which I don't understand.

Hi!

This is actually your browser telling you that the SSL certificate on this site expired, or that it doesn't recognize it. It doesn't mean the site did anything to your computer, it just means that if you send login data or credit card details, the browser can't guarantee that your information won't be stolen in the moments between your browser and the server the site is on.

Aka your browser says "I can't verify that this site is the site it says it is, if you go to it and enter any info we can't be sure it won't be stolen".

You can read up on more technical info here!

The site owner will have to get a new SSL certificate installed to make the warning in browsers to go away. There's nothing RPR can do. If you click on "Advanced", it will give you another warning and you can proceed at your own risk.

In most cases, if you don't enter any info you'll be fine. Err on the side of caution if you're unsure though!

Thank you very much for clearing this up! Now I know what it is, and I feel like I don't have to worry too much, haha, thanks

Yeah, my response was because of you finding trouble with multiple sites and figuring you still needed color stuff to work with.

I also admit that I think I misread part of it, and didn't quite see what the problem you were getting was. Just that a problem existed.