I've noticed some people write posts or replies containing bold and/or italic text and was wondering how this is done when posting on GW?

I've tried writing my post message in MS Word with the bold options, however, when I cut and paste it in the message area on this forum, it comes out plain (no bold or italic).

I know the answer is out there, because some of you have done this. Anyone care to answer?

Thanks in advance.

Italics are the same but with the letter "i".

You user HTML codes surrounded by angle brackets (< and >)

You put a "beginning" code where you want the format (Underline, etc.) to start and an "ending" code where you want it to end. The "ending code is the same as the beginning code except you precede it by a slash (/)

Some Codes are:

Bold: strong
Underline: u
Italic: i
Superscript: sup

The following are included in the "font" code:
Color: color = "name of the color, e.g., red, blue, etc.
Font: face = "name of the font e.g., arial"
Size: size = "how much smaller/bigger than normal e.g, -1, +2"

Some examples. Note: take out the space between the bracket and the code. I had to put them in so it would show up instead of using the code!

< strong>Bold< /strong>....gives you...Bold
< u>Underline< /u>....gives you...Underline
< i>Italic< /i>....gives you...Italic
< font color = "blue">Blue< /font>....gives you...Blue
< font face = "arial">Arial< /font>....gives you...Arial
< font size = "+2">Larger< /font>....gives you...Larger
< font color = "red" face = "arial">Arial in red< /font>....gives you...Arial in red

I hope this isn't too "tech-y".....

No spaces in between

Bold is the same except use a b instead of an i

< i > < b > Use them together to both bold and italicize a segment < / b > < / i >

HTH,
Dawn

Dawn

Starpooh, I think that's a great idea to put the index on the FAQ page. I'm sure many people were/are just as curious. Now we all know.

Deb

I love it...

thanks for asking about it, debi 2006

would be (remove the **)

<*font color="turquoise">Testing<*/font><*font color="yellow"> testing<*/font><*font color="pink">Testing<*/font> <*font size="+3">Larger 123<*/font>

strangly the <*code> <*/code> doesn't work here which would allow us to display code for you...must be deprecated.

Don't forget you can also use <*blockquote> insert quote here <*/blockquote> to quote someone, which will indent the text a bit and make it stand out.

someone said something in a previous post that I want to quote

However, if GW had a decent message board we wouldn't have to go through all this. This is like message board version 2000...not 2008.

Whoopi .... it worked (don't ask how long it took) !

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use <> in place of the brackets

more wow

thanks for the instructions, I always wanted to do this !!!!

I would suggest you all do this because a thread drops down rapidly on this forum, lol....

(all I can manage is bold for now !!)

(back to playing with the dinosaurs for me)

Hey Diddle Diddle
The cat & the fiddle
the cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such a sport
and the dish ran away with the spoon

This is how it should have looked:
<*font color="purple">Thank<*/font><*font color="green">you<*/font><*font color="orange">so<*/font><*font color="teal">much<*/font>
===> translates as
Thankyousomuch

You might want some blanks between the words, too!
<*font color="purple">Thank <*/font><*font color="green">you <*/font><*font color="orange">so <*/font><*font color="teal">much<*/font>
===> translates as
Thank you so much

*** Remember, as buffetgirl stated, remove the asterisks inside the <*font> and <*/font> tags!

Q: How could I tell what Pauline had coded? I viewed the page source and found Pauline's post.
In your browser:
~ for Mozilla: Click View => Page Source
~ for IE: click View => Source
Then use Edit => Find.

Arial font
Comic Sans MS
Fantasy - will be whatever your browser says is the default fantasy font
tahoma

There are alot of fancy things it can do, but these are the basics:
1. Type your text
2. Highlight an area of text and select an appropriate button:

• Bold text: Click the bold B button. Click again to turn off.
• Italic text: Click the italics I button. Click again to turn off.
• Colored text: Click the downward arrow to the right of the large A. Select a color.
• Highlight Background text: Click the downward arrow to the right of the highlighter with the yellow "ab". Select a color.

Give it a try! It's fun to "play" with!

btw... I didn't include the underscore because it's not good to underline text on the web.. folks assume anything underlined is a link and will try to click on it. :-)

Glad everyone is enjoying this post. Okay, I'm done playing.

Question: Anyone know how to add lists using bullets?

<ul>
<li>item 1</li>
<li>item 2</li>
<li>item 3</li>
<li>item 4</li>
</ul>

gives:

• item 1


• item 2


• item 3


• item 4

<ol>

<li>item 1</li>
<li>item 2</li>
<li>item 3</li>
<li>item 4</li>
</ol>

gives

1. item 1


2. item 2


3. item 3


4. item 4

I wonder what they are waiting for…

What would really be cool is if IVillage brought this board into the 21st century, allowing posters the options mentioned above, without having to use HTML code. :-)

yeah that was my same thought...... you can't easily find old discussions, you can't easily find threads you've posted in, you can't easily follow a thread and see when something new has been posted. It's just so outdated. It's beyond funny.

Thank you all for your help!

a company the size of ivillage has plenty of options for built in message boards. On ivillage's main website they have better boards then here already (but even those are pretty crap). Given the fact that they're already serving up plenty of ads which we all view and effectively pay for the site, they should make it work a bit better for us.

a company the size of ivillage has plenty of options for built in message boards. On ivillage's main website they have better boards then here already (but even those are pretty crap). Given the fact that they're already serving up plenty of ads which we all view and effectively pay for the site, they should make it work a bit better for us.

weed - thank you!! < code> doesn't work to display code so I'm glad < xmp> does.

Thanks, Weed! And there are also ampersand codes :)

With 57 posts already, I really must take the time to copy more of these instructions.
Thank you to everyone who posted and gave their knowledge.

Replace Description with the description of your link
Replace http://www.XXX.html with the link

Then, when you need to use it, just open the Notepad file, copy the above line into your Message, and

• Replace "http://www.XXX/" with the link you wish to post and


• Replace "Description" with the description of the link.

And I just cut and paste the URL; all the coding is done automatically.

you guys all ROCK!  I have to admit I've always looked at the "fancy" formatting in other GWer's posts and been so impressed while feeling woefully incapable!!

Does anyone know how to do this?

I've looked under Edit, View, Tools & Help and can't find anything. I do remember seeing something like that once, when I was doing a lot of copy & paste in Word. I'm not very computer savy. Now that I'm retired there's no office staff to help me out, LOL.

Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> Notepad

I created a shortcut on my Desktop for Notepad so I don't have to go through the "Start" menu each time. (To create a similar shortcut: Click & hold on Notepad and drag it to your Desktop)

if you right click on this page, and choose "view source" it will open up the notepad for this page. you'd be stunned at how much code is involved in this one thread.