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Mike
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Been away for a while and am now besieged by family from all corners of the country, so I haven't been around in your hour of need Joffa - sorry about that.
The feature's always been there, it's known as UBB code and is a way to use html formatting without having to allow html access on the bb. My attempt to make it a bit easier to use by incorporating what look to be very simple formatting buttons has actually made it harder for some.
Joffa - what the buttons do is add a pair of UBB tags to your post. UBB tags are similar to html tags except that they are enclosed in square brackets instead of angle brackets. For instance to make some thing bold you click the bold button which inserts (b) and (/b) (both enclosed in square brackets not curved ones as shown here), which are known as tags. Anything typed between the tags like this - (b)bold(/b) - will be bold - the first one starts the bold and the second stops it. If you want to change more than one aspect of the format such as bold, font, size and colour all at once you need to do a bit of fiddling.
Click on the bold button to get (b)(/b)
then choose a font (font=Comic Sans MS)(/font)
then maybe change the size (size=6)(/size)
and then colour to get (color=Purple)(/color)
so what you have now is:
(b)(/b)(font=Comic Sans MS)(/font)(size=6)(/size)(color=Purple)(/color).
Each new tag starts the format and the tag with the slash stops it. The problem with the code above is that each format stops before the next begins so that you can't have them all at once.
To fix that you need to nest the tags with the text in the middle like this:
(b)(font=Comic Sans MS)(size=6)(color=Purple)Joffa's text(/color)(/size)(/font)(/b)
which results in this:
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT size="6"><FONT COLOR="purple">Joffa's text</FONT c></FONT s></FONT f>.
At the moment the buttons only supply the tag pairs (so you don't have to remember them), but don't nest the tags - you have to do that manually - and, as Alf says, it's very, very fiddly. When motivation coincides with available time I'll attempt to make it a bit easier to use.
My instructions make it look very complicated, but it isn't. Just remember that if you want to format text you have to enclose it in 1 or more pairs of tags.
[This message has been edited by Mike (edited 08 January 2001).]
The feature's always been there, it's known as UBB code and is a way to use html formatting without having to allow html access on the bb. My attempt to make it a bit easier to use by incorporating what look to be very simple formatting buttons has actually made it harder for some.
Joffa - what the buttons do is add a pair of UBB tags to your post. UBB tags are similar to html tags except that they are enclosed in square brackets instead of angle brackets. For instance to make some thing bold you click the bold button which inserts (b) and (/b) (both enclosed in square brackets not curved ones as shown here), which are known as tags. Anything typed between the tags like this - (b)bold(/b) - will be bold - the first one starts the bold and the second stops it. If you want to change more than one aspect of the format such as bold, font, size and colour all at once you need to do a bit of fiddling.
Click on the bold button to get (b)(/b)
then choose a font (font=Comic Sans MS)(/font)
then maybe change the size (size=6)(/size)
and then colour to get (color=Purple)(/color)
so what you have now is:
(b)(/b)(font=Comic Sans MS)(/font)(size=6)(/size)(color=Purple)(/color).
Each new tag starts the format and the tag with the slash stops it. The problem with the code above is that each format stops before the next begins so that you can't have them all at once.
To fix that you need to nest the tags with the text in the middle like this:
(b)(font=Comic Sans MS)(size=6)(color=Purple)Joffa's text(/color)(/size)(/font)(/b)
which results in this:
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT size="6"><FONT COLOR="purple">Joffa's text</FONT c></FONT s></FONT f>.
At the moment the buttons only supply the tag pairs (so you don't have to remember them), but don't nest the tags - you have to do that manually - and, as Alf says, it's very, very fiddly. When motivation coincides with available time I'll attempt to make it a bit easier to use.
My instructions make it look very complicated, but it isn't. Just remember that if you want to format text you have to enclose it in 1 or more pairs of tags.
[This message has been edited by Mike (edited 08 January 2001).]
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Joffa, read Mikes posting. If you still can't figure it out, then click on the 'Edit/Delete Message' button to see how I've written this posting.
Also, instead of wasting posts, just click on the 'Preview' button to see if your posting has come out right!
If it doesn't, then just keep on trying until it does!
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<FONT size="6"><FONT COLOR="Navy">HAVE FUN
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Joffa, read Mikes posting. If you still can't figure it out, then click on the 'Edit/Delete Message' button to see how I've written this posting.
Also, instead of wasting posts, just click on the 'Preview' button to see if your posting has come out right!
If it doesn't, then just keep on trying until it does!
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<FONT size="6"><FONT COLOR="Navy">HAVE FUN
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