Ironworks Gaming Forum - Helpful Suggestions on Font Colors!!

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I know of the vital importance of using font colors to show when a character is speaking and to differentiate between characters, and so I felt it worth posting this for everyone to read.

First, here are two websites that have a list of all the colors you will need.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html

http://bratgirlcentral.com/ouapforum/htmlcolors.html

I show this to you for diversity and also because some colors do not work well on brown background, so choose one that looks good and easy to read.

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Second, alot of you are doing this:

(="red")

It is not required to put the " " marks in when choosing a color.

(=red) works just as well.

That way, you can type faster because you do not need to hit so many keys. I thought some of you would like knowing that you do not need to add so much to it. You're overworking yourselves!

[ 03-23-2004, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

Might I add as a suggestion that in a roleplay two characters should not us the same colors?

Maybe the ".." 's are because some people used HTML WYSIWYG editors to generate the code. I did that, and Dreamweaver tossed in the quotation marks around the color hex number automatically.

Yes and I'll second the players should use different characters. I have a dark orange and somebody a few posts down from one of mine started using red in that thread.

could we make this a sticky that way newcomers won't have to worry about finding it.

Also some combinations act funny here, "peach" for instance (if you try to use it as a color) comes out as dark green, and there are others, but that is my most recent experience.

also check out the rules and regs for help on using formatting (ie bold, italics, quoting, etc)

OK, I should visit this place more often... letting a little myth go for this long...
Whlie putting the quotes in isn't necesary in all browsers, but it should be done. Wierd things can happen if something comes along that a browser isn't expecting. Especially because some people still use the touchier browsers like IE.

Well then, let's try to find an older thread that explains all of the font colors and other tags, and make a link to it from here.

Quote:

Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
People are complaining that some of you are creating font colors, but not closing them at the end of your post.

Please begin to do so.

Troubles can become very large when people incorrectly use HTML tags in forums like this. I have seen whole threads literally become un-openable or others below you cannot post anything. Then the moderators have the laborious task of reading through each post in the string to find the problematic tag and fix it.

Thanks.

Quote:

Originally posted by Legolas:
No, the trouble is that when they do (font color=red) they don't do the (/font) afterwards.

Basically, the former tells the browser "start displaying text in red". The latter tells the browser to "stop displaying text in red". If you leave that one out, the browser doesn't know when to stop showing red text.
Usually, when another colour comes along, the text simply changes to that one. However, in some cases, on some browsers, the message is so confusing it starts doing strange things like inventing colours of its own and applying those throughout the page, or failing to show the page whatsoever.
Since there is no telling when that will happen and when it won't, it's best and safest to always simply add the (/font) to the end of each and every coloured section.

So, just like a (b) and a (/b) go together, so too do a (font color="something") and a (/font). Larry's post was simply to say, don't forget the latter.