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Not giving up. control characters vary from board to board it seems.

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[color=red]????????

Hi Jack,

If you want to use a colour name then it has to be in quotation marks like this:

color="red"

If you just want to use a hexadecimal number then it's like this:

color=#ff3399

Sorry should have also said that square brackets don't work here like they do on most conventional fora. It has to be HTML angle brackets like: < and >

Thanks John.
Had used "<..>" for other codes - Bold, Italics, Underline but couldn't see why colour didn't work!
Tried "[...]" just in case.
Forgot about the "s around colour name.

Thanks again!!

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So if I want some text to appear in red, I type
"red"?

Hi Sammy,

Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. You need to put HTML "font" tags around the text you want to highlight. It's not possible to type in the real code as you wont see it, but if you copy the next line and then paste it into a reply window, the text will appear italic, bold and red in your post.

<font color="red"><i><b>This text will be red, italic and bold.</b></i></font>

Remember that all HTML tags must be nested. In other words, the closing tags must be in the reverse order of the opening tags or it won't work.