A long time ago, I did a post called "Posting Secrets" which showed how to use BBcode to add color to your text in SoulCast - then not long after, SoulCast stopped using BBcode. A sad day.
Then I stumbled on a troll posting where they used different colors, fonts and even font sizes. How did they do it? I decided to take a look. Turns out they were using a different program to set up their text and then pasting it in. It used an html tag to set the color, font used and even the size of the font. That tag was "span".
Right now some of the hard-coders are going, "d'oh!" - heh.
By going to the Edit HTML tab and putting this around your text like so:
<SPAN style="COLOR: red">this text is red </SPAN>
is all it takes to turn your text to one of the sixteen basic web colors - black, silver, gray, white, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal, and aqua.
<SPAN style="COLOR: red">this text is red </SPAN>
is all it takes to turn your text to one of the sixteen basic web colors - black, silver, gray, white, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal, and aqua.
To change the size of your text, you use:
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">this is bigger text </SPAN>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">this is smaller text </SPAN>
It's that easy. Just don't get too crazy with it. Sizes are 8, 9,10, 12, 14,16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, & 48.
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">this is bigger text </SPAN>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">this is smaller text </SPAN>
It's that easy. Just don't get too crazy with it. Sizes are 8, 9,10, 12, 14,16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, & 48.
Changing the font is just as simple, but it's trickier because you could have a font that nobody else has. So try staying with 'Arial', 'Courier', 'MS Serif', & 'Times New Roman'.
<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'courier'">this is courier </SPAN>
And you can put all this together! Just put a ; between the style bits.
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'courier'">Hello! </SPAN>
Just remember - you've got to close your span tag each time with a </span> Otherwise we'll all laugh at you.
