{color:#FF0000]Good Morning, Artie!! I just used the color icon in the tool bar. There are no instructions that I could see so I expected it to work with just the color in front. But the color continued on into what you said in the email so I ended what I said with the color icon again. I'll try it your way here.{color/] Well, that didn't work!
And good evening to you, Rita.
It didn't work because you used { instead of [, so the software didn't recognize the tags. (I substituted { for [ to "fool" the software, because it would have displayed red text in all sorts of weird places otherwise.)
Here's what my earlier post would have looked like if I hadn't done the substitution:
WHY IS MY COLOR CODING SHOWING UP? WHAT DID I DO WRONG?
You typed
[/color] at both the beginning and end of what you wanted colored.
Since all you need to type is [color:#FF0000] at the beginning and at the end, the leading [/color] and trailing
show up as extraneous text, like so:
[color:#FF0000] Well, you live in the city that never sleeps so that can happen. I live where the crickets and frogs start in around bedtime and all the stores and most of the restaurants are closed by 10 p.m. Good thing I'm not a night owl!!
[/color]
I think you'll see what I mean if you look at [color:#FF0000]this post by hitting "Quote".
(I had to substitute { for [ in several places to get this post straight.)
More later.
as opposed to
WHY IS MY COLOR CODING SHOWING UP? WHAT DID I DO WRONG?
You typed {color:#FF0000][/color] at both the beginning and end of what you wanted colored.
Since all you need to type is {color:#FF0000] at the beginning and [/color] at the end, the leading [/color] and trailing{color:#FF0000]show up as extraneous text, like so:
[/color] Well, you live in the city that never sleeps so that can happen. I live where the crickets and frogs start in around bedtime and all the stores and most of the restaurants are closed by 10 p.m. Good thing I'm not a night owl!! [color:#FF0000]I think you'll see what I mean if you look at
this post by hitting "Quote".
(I had to substitute { for [ in several places to get this post straight.)
More later.
Confusing as all get-out, huh?
After you hit the "Color" icon you insert your text between the two bracketed items...here; you don't hit it at the beginning and end as you've been doing. (Hit "Quote" again, and look at how I typed here.
