Highlighting or coloring text?

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Any way to highlight or color text on this site? I can’t figure it out. [color=“blue”]BLUE[/color] doesn’t work.

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I would love to see color fonts added to the options.

3

Add underlining to that list. I see bold and italics, but no underline.

4

It’s not in the UI, but you can underline manually just like in BBCode:

To get
This text is all underlined.
just use
(u)This text is all underlined.(/u)
but change the parentheses to the square brackets [ & ].

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Thanks! Didn’t know that

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I guess using Ctrl + u isn’t a good idea.

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$\colour{red}{R}
Nope, that doesn’t work. The internet said that that code would work since we have the latex plugin here.

There’s a bbcode plugin I can install if necessary, that should allow for this.

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Maybe if you spelled color correctly…

$\textcolor{red}{\text{CHECK: is this red?}}$

GOT IT!!

$\textcolor{red}{\text{U}}$ $\textcolor{silver}{\text{S}}$ $\textcolor{blue}{\text{A}}$

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$\textcolor{red}{\text{ha ha ha}}
$

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Hmm. It doesn’t show the markdown for that when I quote it.

I used
\textcolor{red}{\text{ha ha ha}}
inside the dollar-signs for LaTeX.

EDIT: And the goofy textcolour spelling doesn’t work. USA! USA! USA!

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Gonna start showing off in other threads…

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$\textcolor{turquoise}{\text{CHECK: is this turquoise?}}$

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Pop-up with colors as buttons is preferred over memorizing code, just to make sure people read a post as sarcasm.

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14

iatp

15

Hmm.

$\newcommand{\x}[2]{\textcolor{#1}{\text{#2}}}
\x{red}{M}
\x{orange}{a}
\x{cyan}{y}
\x{purple}{b}
\x{green}{e }
\x{magenta}{I }
\x{brown}{s}
\x{yellow}{h}
\x{lime}{o}
\x{indigo}{u}
\x{pink}{l}
\x{black}{d }
\x{green}{h}
\x{blue}{a}
\x{indigo}{v}
\x{red}{e }
\x{purple}{k}
\x{orange}{e}
\x{lime}{p}
\x{orange}{t }
\x{black}{t}
\x{cyan}{h}
\x{tan}{i}
\x{indigo}{s }
\x{black}{t}
\x{green}{o }
\x{orange}{m}
\x{red}{y}
\x{blue}{s}
\x{gray}{e}
\x{green}{l}
\x{pink}{f}
$?

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Yes, I have too much free time.

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Huh. Quoting colored texts fugs it up big time. One has to re-color it.

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Seriously? dagnabit.

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You’d think they’d have that misspelling do the same thing.

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I had no problem with the underlying code showing when I quoted your post . . .