Quoting

[KM2]

How do you get the quote in a different colour?

[al_yrpal]

Like this easy really Just copy whats within the square brackets before and after the text..

Al

[Paulatic]

How do you get the quote in a different colour?

'Select '( that might be what Al means by copy?) then choose a font colour. Whatever you have selected takes that colour.

[KM2]

Select '( that might be what Al means by copy?) then choose a font colour. Whatever you have selected takes that colour.

[KM2]

Thanks

[mjr]

Please don't. It makes if very difficult to read.

[KM2]

If I don’t colour it or background it, then it looks like I have written it.

Please don't. It makes if very difficult to read

[Cyril Haearn]

Often good to quote selectively, use.. to show where text was removed

[gaz]

The "quote" function automatically changes the background colour. As Cyril Haearn says you can edit to select part(s) of the text rather than the whole post.

Quote1.png

If I don’t colour it or background it, then it looks like I have written it.

Amending the text colour to hi-vis is optional and often unhelpful

Please don't. It makes if very difficult to read.

[philvantwo]

Mick F

[Vorpal]

like this (click the picture to see the code)

This post has been moved to the 'using the forum' subforum

[Cyril Haearn]

Please to consider 'color-blind' people
I couldnae read some of the examples easily, the yellow one not at all

Best not to change others texts by bolding, italicing, either. Abbreviating cutting.. is good as most fora members write too long texts

[661-Pete]

On a related topic, wouldn't it be useful to have a "spoiler" feature? I believe some forum 'engines' support it, I don't know about phpbb. This is where part of your post is invisible until you click on it, or on a 'reveal' button.

Of course making the text colour white-on-white or pale-blue-on-pale-blue achieves the same result, but it's more clumsy.

[661-Pete]

Incidentally, if you want to make text invisible on this forum (until selected), you should set it to one or other of the following colours:

Code: Select all

[color=#E1EBF2]Use this colour setting if the post will appear on a darker panel[/color]
[color=#ECF3F7]Use this colour setting if the post will appear on a lighter panel[/color]

Copy and paste the above without the "code" tags to see what I mean.

Note: this works fine on my computer. It may work differently on smartphones?