Problem

Ok I started a songlist and had a lot of fancy text (like bold, coloured...) And when I wanted that kind of features a box would open and say like "Enter Text Here". But lately it isn't doing that anymore. In fact all the text on my songlist thread is gone with all the codes for the text still there. Here is an example:

<span style="color: Red;">BOSS [NEW]</span>

The text was supposed to be coloured red saying BOSS [NEW] but now it just shows that. It would be nice if that old feature would be brought back cause now I have to fix the whole post to the new Text feature system

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BBCode is used so we don't have to deal with popups or complicated tags. You can use:

[color= red ]BOSS [NEW][ /color ] (without the spaces)

instead of:

<span style="color: Red;">BOSS [NEW]</span>

See how much cleaner that looks?

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i find this more complicated as i sometimes it does not work. the pop up style made thing more easier to do. well at least in my view. well i guess i will just have to get used to it

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When does it not work? I need to iron out all possible bugs.

Just change it to put the cursor between the brackets to reduce confusion about where to put the text to color.
A list of available color names somewhere might be useful too.

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Exactly how long did it take you to do this??

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http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colornames.asp

Enough for you?

Also, just a note, you can put hex values too for the colour, like #0080ff to give blue.

Quickest way:
1. Type out the sentence.
2. M-% (space) (enter) "(/color) (color=red)" (enter) !
3. M-% red (enter) pink (enter) (alternate between n and y)
4. Add (color=red) to the beginning and (/color) to the end.

And no, I won't explain it more. I know nobody here will recognize the keystrokes.

Oh, and the preview doesn't process the BBCode in my sig correctly.

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it works but im used to how a window would normally come up saying something like "Type text Here". Now I have to manually add it between the brackets. It kind of gets annoying especially if you are trying to be quick in entering something in.

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Just copy the text you're trying to fix into a decent text editor and use "Find and Replace".

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