<font color=skyblue>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.</font>

What do you mean, people are forgetting to pu the arrows at the end.

They use the <~ font > tag but don't close it out as such <~ /font > (minus the spaces and ~)

As a general rule of thumb close every tag you open, the UBB tags are nice in that they won't display if they aren't closed [b][i]such as here, but the html tags offer no such option.

[ 07-30-2004, 01:24 PM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]

so you mean people aren't doing (font color=red) (replace( with < and ) with >)

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.

I admit I am guilty of that crime! I will try to be more careful...honest! :D

<font color=red>I don't /font at the end and it comes out like this.

yes but if you don't close it and leave your sig in, it will bleed into your sig</font>, on some browsers it will make any posts after yours red, as well as possibly killing peoples ability to view the forum (and other threads). Please comply with the Administration (Mod's and Admin) on this as it's really very little to ask, and takes seconds to set.

If need be do what Ruby does and write in your close tags with the open tags. (one of the first pieces of advice I got in my HTML classes: close any tags you open right away and just fill info into the middle)

or you could just put set your sig to be font close tags, and never worry about it again.

[ 08-04-2004, 10:21 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]