White on green, yellow on green, light green on green, just about anything lighter would make the difference.

Oh, I'd have to play with stuff.

You'd think that playing with stuff would be a pleasurable experience.

What it comes down to is that it depends upon the stuff.


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What was your question again?

Those are all simple commands that can be accomplished without clicking the little buttons. (I actually find manually typing in the tags to be easier and faster than pausing to hunt for a little button with my mouse.)


The first one of the dark text buttons on the left is URL. The forum software already parses URLs and turns them into hyperlinks automatically. If you have a reason to need to do it manually, you can do the same using [URL] tags.

The next one is Bold. You can do that by manually typing in the [B] tags.

The next one over is Italics. You can do that with [I] tags.

Next is Strikethrough. That's [STRIKE] tags.

Next is Quote. You can do that with either the "Reply With Quote" button on the post you're wanting to quote, or by using [QUOTE] tags.

Finally is Lists. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen a list on the forum in my nearly 15 years. But if you were so inclined, you bracket the list using (as you've probably already guessed) [LIST] tags, and use [∗] tags to denote bullet points within.


To use any of these tags, you type the bracketed tag before word(s) to which you're trying to apply that text effect, and then type the same bracketed tag after the words, just preceded by a slash (/) before the letter or word within the brackets in the ending tag. Unfortunately, I can't directly type the ending tag, because the forum software gets confused and applies the effect, but it'd look something like: [ B ] word [ /B ] (just without the spaces inside the brackets) in order to to bold the word.

Also note that capitalization within these tags doesn't matter. So [b] works just as well as [B].

But even if you can't remember the tags, and can't see the buttons, these features are all gravy, and none of them are crucial to anyone browsing or participating in the forum.

I got you…



Solving first world problems one at a time. Because we can’t remember 2 or 3 buttons used once a year.

In all seriousness, I recall that the color of that background iss tied to something else, which if I changed it, would change other things which don't need changing except if I wanted to change them, but I don't.

The text on the buttons- I'll take a look.

Shoot, I'm just posting because I wanted to see these buttons you are talking about. I am not sure I have ever noticed them. I am a Luddite. Last time I called myself a Luddite some guy argued with me for pages about how that didn't follow the definition of Luddite. Nice buttons either way.

quote:

Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Finally is Lists. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen a list on the forum in my nearly 15 years.

Then I guess you read few of my posts , cuz I use 'em all the time--both ordered and unordered.

If you move your cursor over the buttons, you will see what they are for.

The only one I use with any frequency is the URL link. The others, I just type the commands itself like <'b'> to start bold and <'/b'> to end bold. Just don't type the ' mark.

quote:

type the commands itself like <'b'>

I would need a cheat sheet to type these secret codes

quote:

Originally posted by Hamden106:

quote:

type the commands itself like <'b'>

I would need a cheat sheet to type these secret codes

Not sure all are supported, but
https://www.bbcode.org/reference.php

After a certain age, playing with stuff becomes more work than it’s worth.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: darthfuster,

quote:

Originally posted by Hamden106:

quote:

type the commands itself like <'b'>

I would need a cheat sheet to type these secret codes

It’s in the Help section.

UBB Code

Function	UBBCode Tags
Bold	[b] [/b]
Italics	[i] [/i]
Strikethrough	[strike] [/strike]
Unordered, bulleted	[list][/list]
Ordered,numbered	[list=1] [/list]
Ordered,lettered	[list=A] [/list]
List item	[*]
Quote	[quote] [/quote]
CodeSnippets	[code] [ /code]
URLs	[url] [/url]
URL with name	[url=http://www.yourURL.com]namehere[ /url]
Email Addresses	[email] [/email]
Images	[img] [/img]
Image Aligned Left	[img:left] [/img]
Image Aligned Right	[img:right] [/img]
Image Aligned Top	[img:top] [/img]
Flash Video	[FLASH_VIDEO] [/FLASH_VIDEO]
Horizontal Rule	[hr]
Subscript	[sub] [/sub]
Red	[color:red] [/color]
Green	[color:green] [/color]
Blue	[color:blue] [/color]
Yellow	[color:yellow] [/color]
White	[color:white] [/color]
Black	[color:black] [/color]
Pink	[color:pink] [/color]
Purple	[color:purple] [/color]
Brown	[color:brown] [/color]
Grey	[color:grey] [/color]

Up there ^ at the top, click on Tools and then Help and then UBB Code.

quote:

Originally posted by parabellum:
In all seriousness, I recall that the color of that background iss tied to something else, which if I changed it, would change other things which don't need changing except if I wanted to change them, but I don't.

The text on the buttons- I'll take a look.

I took a look at the buttons and the text is actually a background image set in CSS.

For example:

   .eve_code_quote{
      width:19px;
      height:15px;
      background-image: url('https://sigforum.com/groupee_common/ver1.3.7.2147483647/styles/images/ubb_code_quote.gif')
   }

Replacing these 6 images for URL, bold, italic, strike, quote, and list with a new image with a transparent background and white or yellow for the image "text", should work.

This is an example of what I cobbled together.


Accomplished with the following CSS:

.eve_code_bold{      
      width: 19px;
      height: 15px;
      background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/bold.png');
      background-size: 12px 12px;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      background-color: transparent;
      background-position-x: center;
      background-position-y: center;
   }

.eve_code_list{
      width: 19px;
      height: 15px;
      background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/list2.png');
      background-size: 12px 12px;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      background-color: transparent;
      background-position-x: center;
      background-position-y: center;
   }
    
.eve_code_quote{
      width: 19px;
      height: 15px;
      background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/quotes-right.png');
      background-size: 12px 12px;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      background-color: transparent;
      background-position-x: center;
      background-position-y: center;
   }

.eve_code_url{
      width: 19px;
      height: 15px;
      background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/link.png');
      background-size: 12px 12px;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      background-color: transparent;
      background-position-x: center;
      background-position-y: center;
   }
.eve_code_strike{
      width: 19px;
      height: 15px;
      background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/strikethrough.png');
      background-size: 12px 12px;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      background-color: transparent;
      background-position-x: center;
      background-position-y: center;
   }
.eve_code_italic{
      width: 19px;
      height: 15px;
      background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/italic.png');
      background-size: 12px 12px;
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      background-color: transparent;
      background-position-x: center;
      background-position-y: center;
   }

I just use whiteout on my computer screen.

Ignorance is bliss, and I'm a happy camper. I didn't know the buttons were there. I knew that I could bold, etc, using html code, and figured that was how everyone else was doing it.

Simple tastes for simple minds.

I just do it by Braille…

quote:

Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
This is an example of what I cobbled together.

Accomplished with the following CSS:
...

Nice work! If you don't mind, I can probably make it less verbose.

.eve_code_bold, .eve_code_list, .eve_code_quote, .eve_code_url, .eve_code_strike, .eve_code_italic {      
    width: 19px;
    height: 15px;
    background: transparent url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/bold.png') no-repeat center/12px 12px;
 }

.eve_code_list {
    background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/list2.png');
 }
  
.eve_code_quote {
    background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/quotes-right.png');
 }

.eve_code_url {
    background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/link.png');
 }
.eve_code_strike {
    background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/strikethrough.png');
 }
.eve_code_italic {
    background-image: url('https://codejanitor.azurewebsites.net/Images/sf/italic.png');
}

Not sure if that's all correct. I haven't done this since about 2010.