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Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: themagpie on August 27, 2006, 06:34:01 PM

When I try to color my text, raise the size or put it in bold face type, the instructions show up in my post,  Why is this?  One more question.  What does "guided mode" mean?

Margie

Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Parker on August 27, 2006, 07:26:26 PM

do you use fast reply?
you're probably not closing your tags.

p/s: how is the weather up in new york? i'm coming home tomorrow from florida.
-Parker

Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: kimmer on August 27, 2006, 08:22:57 PM

QUOTE(themagpie @ Aug 27 2006, 04:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

When I try to color my text, raise the size or put it in bold face type, the instructions show up in my post,  Why is this?  One more question.  What does "guided mode" mean?

Margie

As Parker said, you probably aren't closing your tags. Here's a complete set of tags:

CODE

[color=#660000][size=2][b]red X[/b][/size][/color]

The tags with the "/" are the closing tags. They go in the opposite order the start in: color, size, bold ... to ... bold, size, color.

The easy way to do this is to look in the upper right hand corner of the reply box. You should see a small symbol with a red X on it. After you set up the font, size, color, etc. click that and it will close your tags for you.

Guided Mode gives you a pop-up window for certain codes. You type whatever in the window and click okay when done. All your tags will be in place when you used guided mode. It works for bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and a few other things.

Hope that helps.
kimmer

Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Parker on August 27, 2006, 09:26:21 PM

i just reviewed your post in the happy bday kimmer thread
and that is the case

hope this helps=]
-parker

Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: themagpie on August 27, 2006, 10:23:46 PM

Thank you Kimmer and Parker.  I neverr knew what closing tags meant.  Let's see if this works.  By the way, Parker, it's been drizzly in NY and it's supposed to be showery tomorrow.  But it's cool here.

Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Parker on August 27, 2006, 10:33:19 PM

yay it worked!

i'll dress appopriately
=]

-parker