Typing in color

Can I add color to my text? I was trying it in the test forum and it didn't work. Don't know if I am doing something wrong or you just can't do it.
Thanks , Ronnie

I haven't been able to get color font/text code to work either.......hoipefully you'll get an answer from admin/Dave.

From what I've seen in the FAQs, only three HTML tags are allowed at this time: bold, underline, and italic. http://davesgarden.com/faq/forums/#131

Figured........thansk tutti :-)

You're welcome. I kinda like typing in color, myself. ;)

It would be fun to add color to certain words now and again.....but oh well :-)

Thanks, at least I know It's not me!!

Yeah- it would be neat to add colour. Maybe even our own fades. Wistfully dreaming.

-Jocie.

I'm sure it would be a lot of work for admin to configure the extra html codes for our use.....but it would be fun :-)

Let a girl dream, lol.

LOL :-)

emoticons would be nice too :))

Yes they would! Now we are wishing for the moon, LOL.

I've gotta put in a plug for clean, uncluttered forums. I love 'em!

Yeah, I guess it's probably better that way. Keeps loading time down too. Probably would save alot of space as well.
Ahh- I'll just dream of colour, LOL.

I don't think I would like to read posts in color...some colors are too hard to read...especially for us older people. Jo

A complete post in color is sometimes hard to read, yes....a key word now and again no

I was on the lines of thinking key words, certainly not a whole post

You know how it goes, though...If you allow any feature, there will be those that abuse it. Forums like this one make my eyes cross. I mean, aren't you glad DG doesn't look like this? http://www.angelfire.com/ar/adamcoats/copy_of_index.html

I would never subscribe let alone visit if DG ever had pop up ads like that! YUCK! LOL

LOL, and I wasn't even referring to the pop-up ads! Mind-boggling to think of all that plus the annoyance of pop-up's. Firefox blocks them and I never know if a site is fraught with them or not.

YES, I'm with you Gardenwife---SIMPLE is better on DG. So much easier to assimilate the information. And there's a certain elegance in the streamlined look.

I will put in my 2 cents.... on my garden club site we have the emotion icons, but I don't think we can do color. Anyway, it gets really hard to read because people go NUTS with those icons! I think color would be the same way. It is cool to have that as an option, to add emphasis, etc. But it turns into every post looking like an Easter egg with tons of the various emotion faces. :) :( :O) LOL!

Oh, I know exactly what you mean! The forums at 3 Fat chicks http://3fatchicks.com are busy like that...Animated emoticons, colored text, and avatars and signatures with clipart. Many times I disable smilies in the view. It's pretty bad when a one-line reply to a post takes up 1/3 of my screen's height because of all the stuff below that one line. ;)

3 fat chicks huh? HA! I have to check that out just for the name!

Gardenwife,

Have not been over to 3fatchicks in a while. Need to get over there as they do have a lot of information (and support). Made a 300 mi trip today and lets just say I could have made better food choices...Barb

I'm behind you, Kimberley. The way it is now, must continue in this aspect.

I LOVE color!
I THINK in color . . .

But here . . . it would get too busy and wear out my eyes.

OK, I just found this thread. I'm pretty new, and I have no idea how to enable bold-ed or underlined type. I agree that people would likely over-use color capabilities, but I would appreciate it if somebody would point me toward instructions for using bold or underline in my posts or DG emails. I'm *tired* of relying on asterisks or of SHOUTING when I don't really mean to raise my voice!

Hi, Critterologist (love your username!). Check out the forums FAQ at http://davesgarden.com/faq/forums/ There's a section regarding the formatting allowed at DG. There's even a test forum where you can play to your heart's content and try stuff out: http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/test/

< B > < / B > Makes bold.

< U > < / U > Underlined.

< / I > Itallics.

Now I'm just showing off, haha.