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Testing out the springs
posted by cloister56STAFFMOD on February 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM
Just seeing if this might be the best place to continue the weekly Kolchak discussion from IMDB.
Reply by Bob Peters 61
on February 13, 2017 at 7:32 AM
Jeff Larsen, you got my identity right. That's me. Still unsure of shopping for a copy of a season in progress, but I definitely intend to find the next series coming up. Oddly enough, this show is airing on broadcast sub-channel ME-TV, but of course currently not the same ep as on the board, and on Sunday night instead. Last night he took on Helen of Troy.
Reply by mad-pac
on February 15, 2017 at 1:18 PM
some blue text
some green text
some red text
some orange text
Just going a little overboard with the little I can do with markdown language. Oh, boy, this will be a challenge.
Reply by cloister56
on February 15, 2017 at 2:32 PM
italics and bold shouldn't be too hard
This cheat sheet is pretty good: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
Reply by mad-pac
on February 15, 2017 at 4:01 PM
This cheat sheet is great. I had already seen it, but that's not where I got the color codes.
Reply by cloister56
on February 15, 2017 at 5:04 PM
Hmm does this work for red
Ha found that, do we have purple
There is a nice tutorial to work through if anyone is interested it does things step by step
Right gonna stop now though this thread is useful to practice things
Reply by Bob Peters 61
on February 18, 2017 at 10:31 AM
Just trying out a little html and [b]bbcode[/b] to see what does and does not work here. Such as You Tube and [url]http://www.google.com[/url]
Cool. Now is this in gold?
So those six figure color codes are: first two characters middle two and last two.
And now I know that bbcode doesn't work here, html does and web addresses automatically become links.
Reply by Jeff Larsen
on February 18, 2017 at 10:52 AM
Is there a link to the color codes?
Reply by Bob Peters 61
on February 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Replace the square brackets with angle brackets and I used [font color="#FF0000"]red[/font] [font color="#00FF00"]yellow[/font] [font color="#0000FF"]blue[/font] to go red yellow blue.
For the life of me, though, I can't remember what those six-character color codes are called right now and it's bugging me.
Hexadecimals. I just remembered they're called hexadecimals.
I learned some rudimentary html long ago, and bbcode for links and formatting in most message boards, so if I can use html tags I already know here instead of learning a new markup for this board, I'm more comfortable with it.
I guess going through the markup cheat sheets posted here would yield a more user-friendly way than that, though.
Reply by Jeff Larsen
on February 18, 2017 at 12:15 PM
Bob, thanks!
If that works = HTML text color
test
test
test
If you want to read a spoiler, you can click and drag to highlight. Wait let's go darker...maybe too dark now? the trick is to make it obvious text is present but hard to read on it's own. Someone else did spoilers by changing background color to match text, then highlight with cursor. Oh, that works!
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: black"] changing background color to match text[/FONT], replacing [ and ] with < and >.
Reply by mad-pac
on February 18, 2017 at 3:00 PM
I have a simple way:
This (no spaces):
< span style="color:blue" >some * blue * text< /span >
< span style="color:green" >some * green * text< /span >
< span style="color:red" >some * red * text< /span >
< span style="color:orange" >some * orange * text< /span >
becomes this:
some blue text
some green text
some red text
some orange text
Reply by Bob Peters 61
on February 18, 2017 at 3:22 PM
Cool, so does: This (no spaces): some * blue * text some * green * text some * orange * text become this: some blue text some green text some orange text
Nope.
Maybe:
some red text.
some blue text
some green text
and the other style of formatting doesn't nest inside html font codes, I see.
But I still can't tell what's going on with that latter green tag.
Reply by mad-pac
on February 18, 2017 at 6:09 PM
The second time you used green, it wasn't really green. I typed "green" and I got green. You used cyan instead.
Reply by Bob Peters 61
on February 18, 2017 at 6:29 PM
The first time I typed green and got green, but the second time I typed green in the tag and got cyan.
(substitute <> for []) [font color="green"]some [i]green[/i] text[/font]
trying again,
some green text
Very strange what could have happened the first time.