The forum hates me
And colored quotes too
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So's a while's back island_gurl12 wrote an article asking some questions and such. Good for her, asking questions is better then working in ignorance (although finding the answers out yourself can be fun too). Through the answers Gene Nash showed us purple quotes, which was neat and pretty. It was great of him to show us this, but his purple quote didn't quiet match the normal quiets (border was too big). Minor detail and I doubt anyone else would care, but I did, so when I attempted to take the idea of purple quotes and mix them with the html code joeuser uses to mark quotes I couldn't get it to work right.
So I looked into the code and hunted it down. Turns out that stardock is using css to make the quotes come out the way they do. This is fine and all, but I havn't used css before, so didn't think I could embed it in the html code like I ended up doing. But some quick research later and I found out I could. Made up my own little style sheet which uses the class "coloredquotetable", which I figured wouldn't be used by stardock, since they have their own pattern. All done, tested on my test article, worked fine, so off to share it with island_gurl's article. Or so I thought...
Due to some of the attempts to make purple quotes there is all sorts of odd html code loose on that article, which prevents me from seeing the whole thing if I come to it from her blog. I get about half way down the page and then it goes all white. So I come in through the forum, something I generally don't do.
I had just tested it on my blog, so I figured it would work fine, right? Nope.
Whatever has been done to the forums in this whole 'upgrade' or whatever it is has it redoing my comment. I had to edit it three times to get it back to what it was supposed to be, and even then I couldn't get the link to hex color codes to show up the way I wanted it to, it kept getting itself converted into some other oddness. I don't want to use pretty world icons
and the word Link for links, I want to have them embedded into the article as underlined words. But apparently that's too old school and this is the flashy sister site of pretty color wincustomize land so it has to use all sorts of bells and whistles (or at least the visual equivelant, sound might be next).
I don't use the forum if I can help it, I've always liked the feel of the blogs themselves better then the forum, this upgrade just makes it even more so. So I can get by with whatever autoreformating code is going on there. Just so long as it stays there and doesn't come visit my blog as well...
And while I was trying to convince the forum to display what I wanted it to display I noticed that the earlier attempts at purple quotes had succeeded, but they had failed at the time. Looking into it, the css class that was so hard to find before doesn't seem to exist anymore. Overlooked during the changes or being phased out? Probably phased out, is usually what happens when I figure out how something works
Assuming anyone else wants it (and that it doesn't get invalidated tomorrow), here's the funny code for different colored quotes. Currently set for green (00FF00), but if you change the two places 00FF00 shows up to a different hex color code you'll get a different color quote. Normal yellow is FFF394, purple is FFCCFF, but there are many other color options.
<style type="text/css">
.coloredquotetable
{
BORDER-RIGHT: #999999 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #999999 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #999999 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #999999 1px solid;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00FF00;
}</style>
<TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center class="coloredquotetable"><TR><TD bgColor=#00FF00 class="mb-Body-Quote-Text"> TEXT YOU ARE QUOTING </TD></TR></TABLE><BR>
| I could get a normal quote, that was easy enough. |
| But when I tried to make the background purple I would end up with a yellow border. |
Due to some of the attempts to make purple quotes there is all sorts of odd html code loose on that article, which prevents me from seeing the whole thing if I come to it from her blog. I get about half way down the page and then it goes all white. So I come in through the forum, something I generally don't do.
| I add my new comment, which is the code for the quote inside a purple quote box, and then some explaination afterwards. |
Whatever has been done to the forums in this whole 'upgrade' or whatever it is has it redoing my comment. I had to edit it three times to get it back to what it was supposed to be, and even then I couldn't get the link to hex color codes to show up the way I wanted it to, it kept getting itself converted into some other oddness. I don't want to use pretty world icons
and the word Link for links, I want to have them embedded into the article as underlined words. But apparently that's too old school and this is the flashy sister site of pretty color wincustomize land so it has to use all sorts of bells and whistles (or at least the visual equivelant, sound might be next).I don't use the forum if I can help it, I've always liked the feel of the blogs themselves better then the forum, this upgrade just makes it even more so. So I can get by with whatever autoreformating code is going on there. Just so long as it stays there and doesn't come visit my blog as well...
And while I was trying to convince the forum to display what I wanted it to display I noticed that the earlier attempts at purple quotes had succeeded, but they had failed at the time. Looking into it, the css class that was so hard to find before doesn't seem to exist anymore. Overlooked during the changes or being phased out? Probably phased out, is usually what happens when I figure out how something works
Assuming anyone else wants it (and that it doesn't get invalidated tomorrow), here's the funny code for different colored quotes. Currently set for green (00FF00), but if you change the two places 00FF00 shows up to a different hex color code you'll get a different color quote. Normal yellow is FFF394, purple is FFCCFF, but there are many other color options.
<style type="text/css">
.coloredquotetable
{
BORDER-RIGHT: #999999 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #999999 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #999999 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #999999 1px solid;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00FF00;
}</style>
<TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center class="coloredquotetable"><TR><TD bgColor=#00FF00 class="mb-Body-Quote-Text"> TEXT YOU ARE QUOTING </TD></TR></TABLE><BR>
