Working with TEXT
How do you
make thing bold, italic, big, or in
colors?
All these things happen with "tags" that are turned on before the word, and
turned off after the word. You type them when you post, but they show up as
changes to the other text. For bold, the tags are:
<b>text to make bold</b> would show on screen as: text to make bold
notice the brackets < and >, they surround all commands. The letter b in the brackets is the command to start bolding now. The / is the command to turn off whatever command is after it, so /b says stop bolding now. If you try using these codes always remember to "turn off" everything that you turn on.
For Italics, replace the b with i, like this:
<i>text to make italic</i> would show on screen as: text to make italic
Colors and sizes are a little harder, you use the FONT command for both. Let's look at sizes first, the text you are reading now is HTML size 3. That works out to a 12 point screen font. The numbered sizes run from 1 to 7, smallest to largest. The command looks like this:
<font size="5">text to make size 5</font> would show on screen as: text to make size 5
Here are all of the standard sizes, made by using the command above:
Size 1 text
Size 2 text
Size 3 text
Size 4 text
Size 5 text
Size 6 text
Size 7 text
Colors are also made with the FONT command, like this:
<font color="red">text to make red</font> would show on screen as: text to make red
The 'normal' colors are shown below. There are also numbered colors of every shade you can imagine, if you are interested there is a chart on the Webmonkey site.
| aqua | black | blue | fuchsia | green | gray |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple | red |
| silver | teal | white | yellow |
The commands on this page can be combined and "stacked up". So if you want something big, red, bold and italic, you could do it like this:
<i><b><font color="red" size="7">Opus X</font></b></i> = Opus X
Noticed that I turned off everything I turned on.
The font command has tons of other options, and there are lots of other html commands, but these basics always work on the CF board. If you want to learn more there are tons of starter sites on the internet, like Webmonkey. You can also learn a lot with the VIEW SOURCE menu (if you use Internet Explorer). If you click the View menu, near the bottom is Source. This will pop up a text editor with all the ugly html that made the page you are reading look the way it does.