[happysoul]

Can anyone help me to understand how to get the "mark ups" to work in my post? I looked at the listing but I dont understand how to apply them. All I want to do is use the color purple?

I am walking on the bridge, I am over the water and I'm scared as hell, but I know theres something better..yes I know there's something better -- Paula Cole

[splash]

Hi happysoul,

To use the colors, or any of the markup commands, there are only two steps: 1. place the beginning markup before the text you want to change and 2. place the ending markup after the text you wanted to change.

All markup commands have an opening and closing bracket:
<pre> [ ] </pre>


The ending markup has a forward slash to stop the markup change:
<pre> [/ ] </pre>


Example: To change text to the color <font color=purple>purple</font color=purple>, type this:

[ p u r p l e ] <font color=purple>T e x t</font color=purple> [ / p u r p l e ]

but without the spaces. (I had a hard time making the [ pre ] tags work with other tags.) Take another look at the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://forums.grohol.com/faq_english.pl?Cat=#html> FAQ</A> and only type the

[ command ] <font color=purple>your text to change and the</font color=purple> [ /end command ]

but not the part that says "= Makes the given text purple " and use no spaces.

You can "nest" commands so that more than one change takes effect:

[ purple ] [ b ] [ i ] <font color=purple>text to be changed</font color=purple> [ / i ] [ / b ] [ / purple ] - (remember: no spaces within the brackets)

Let me know if I've confused you further. I'm good that way!

Take care,

splash