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Topic Formating Buttons
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:53 am
by Dee
I sure hope someone can help me.
I posted a reply to a topic which included a spoiler. So, I tried to use the formating buttons to print "spoiler" in Bold and the spoiler text in white.
This is what it looked like:
***SPOILER*** Don't pick-up the coins before positioning the boulders. Remember the coins act as "stops", too.
I don't think it worked very well. Can somebody explain how to use the formating buttons. Obviously, I'm just not getting it.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:40 am
by Lillian
Hi Dee - Looking at your post to David where you tried to do the colour, bold formatting, I think you probably clicked the colour first, therefore it didn't work because it looked like you had [colour=white][/colour] followed by yout text and then [colour=white][/colour] after your text. I always type the text first, then highlight it and add the colour afterwards.
Therefore it should read:
[colour=white] text [/colour]
Hope that helps
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:54 am
by Willwonka4442
text
You add several at a time too.
BTW: This should really be in the off topic
thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:31 pm
by mette
The bold part
should have worked typed like that. I think you must have checked the "Disable BBCode in this post" button (below the text editing field). If you check that box none of the codes will work.
Dee wrote:
***SPOILER***
The above quote is taken directly from your post and as you can see the bold code works just fine (I have of course not checked the box
)
Mette
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:03 pm
by Gen
Dee, you don't have to use the buttons, Just type [ quote ] then [ color=white ] your spoiler, then [ /color ] then[ /quote ] (no spaces in between) and presto, the spoiler is not readable except when highlighted.
your spoiler
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:26 pm
by Dee
Thanks Lillian,
Actually, I clicked "B", typed my text, and click "B" again. Then I clicked "font colour", clicked "white", typed my text, and then clicked "font colour" and "white".
I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work for me, so I deleted the post and typed this.
What next?
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:40 pm
by Dee
Thank you, mette!!! And Thanks to everyone else, too!!!
So that's what BBcode is. I never knew. I edited my original post by removing the check. WoW, it looks just like I wanted it, too.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS Note to Willwonka4442, thanks for the info. Thought questions about the Discussion Board were General. I'll remember next time.