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I know this has been asked, and answered, somewhere...but I can't find it!

How do you change the color of your text?.....And insert italacs?

NM

Italics are done by and .

As for text colours, I'm want in on that too! Tell me, tell me!

Thanks, Mike A!

NM

Actually, I just remembered something about coloured text. One of my friends, Urchin, knows about this. I don't have a link to his page on me, but if you go to my homepage and find, in the list of articles, one called 'If the kids were united...' then you'll be able to get to his homepage and ask him.

Sounds great...I'll give it a shot!

Thanks!

NM

Hiya

Here's an example

This would be normal coloured text & this would be red text & this would be normal again.

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Asteroid Lil sent me a thesis on this subject *^_^*...she is great.

It was all about hex colours, and the many dofferent shades and hues you could get by using different codes. It's quite easy actually. Anyone interested?

*More* than interested, Mike A!!!

Thanks worls Bruce.....I will put that to work!

NM

OOPPSS!!!......Try "worlDs"!

NM

Here's some info on hex colour codes http://www.imagitek.com/hex

& here's a page that'll let you try out the colour combinations http://www.imagitek.com/bcs.html


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What is a 'web-safe color'?????
When selecting colors for web page backgrounds or text, it isnt a good idea to select hex values at random. Colors appear differently on different platforms, and different displays. Here's some simple stuff that might help. [cause I'm pretty simple--dont pretend to be an expert in any of this]

Display: Most newer systems will display 256 colors, or more, but older systems might be limited to only 16 colors. And if you create a page while displaying billions and billions of colors; the hex color you assign might look great. But someone who is only displaying 256 colors could get an entirely different color, 'cause their computer is not set to show the additional shades. So your page might look very different on their computer than what you had in mind.

Platform differences: Mac and windoze [oops, my biases are showing again] are capable of different colors. Both can display 256 colors, but they are 256 DIFFERENT colors. There are only 216 colors that will look [mostly] the same on BOTH platforms.

An explanation of all this is at:
http://www.tips-tricks.com/colors.shtml

And charts [that loads very quickly] displaying the 216 web-safe colors are at:
http://www.leeanne.com/browsersafe.html
and
http://www.cookwood.com/cookwood/html4_examples/4files/colorhex/colorcharthex.html

Linda Weineman is one of the 'experts' in alla this. she has a page at:
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

A list of the 16 colors [Netscape 'named' colors] that will look the same even in the most primitive monitors, [and will display if you type in their names, rather than the hex codes: bgcolor="red"] is at:
http://www.utexas.edu/learn/pub/colors/

About.com has a great page on 'Using colors on web pages' at:
http://html.about.com/internet/design/html/msubcolor.htm

do a search for 'web safe colors' 'browser safe colors' or 'non-dithering colors' for more information.

If you use other than the 216 'safe' colors it is very likely that you will get unexpected results on different computers. [And even with them there is still some variation]

Hope this helps.


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Geesh, bluDragon! Monsy was right! You *are* a wealth of information! Thanks!

NM

awwww....shucks...twarn't nuttin'

or maybe it was more than you ever wanted to know about color...


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That info is copied and printed for future reference! Thanks!


NM

WiLL here, with a Stupid Question.

I used "" inmy page, and it came out weird. It said that I failed to close the tag, and made a *!* thing appear. Also, other glitches involving also comes up using them one at a time.

I humbly request your (collective) assistance.

--WiLL

The tag is meant to be .

S Question of my own now. How do you make your text bigger?

I would have thought the close tag would be .

I'd like to know the answer to your question, as well, Mike A. I can get the larger typeface with the "subheader" tags, but not the LARGE stuff I keep seeing around.

Also....how to change fonts. I see it done all over the place, but I haven't seen an explanation on how anywhere!

NM

I'm sure Bruce will be here any second to make everything clear, but meanwhile, here's a bit that might help.

If you are using guideML the tag is 'cause you hafta close all tags in GuideML, and the way to close a non-container tag is by putting a forward slash at the END of the tag. That's why you got the ! error using without the forward slash.

To change the font size, the tag is: text here
The numbers inside the "" can be + or - 1, 2, or 3 to make the text larger or smaller.

Hope this helps.

blu
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Hiya

The answer is

If you are using guideML the tag is 'cause you hafta close all tags in GuideML, and the way to close a non-container tag is by putting a forward slash at the END of the tag. That's why you got the ! error using without the forward slash.

To change the font size, the tag is: text here
The numbers inside the "" can be + or - 1, 2, or 3 to make the text larger or smaller.

Hope this helps.

blu^H^H^H



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