GilesGuthrie
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vB has long had the ability to specify your own colours using the HTML code of 3 x 8 bit numbers. Thus Red is FF0000, Green is 00FF00, and Blue is 0000FF. Additionally, there are some pre-defined colours, such as Green and (Famine's Favourite) Indigo. But if you know the colour you want, you can just enter the values.
Since GTP6 (on vB3 - note Boombexus, that's vB3 not vB4!!!), there has been an odd artefact:
You always used to have to write [color= 990099]text[/ color]. This worked in both signature and body text. Now, in GTP6, if you write [color= 990099]text[/ color], then vB3 automagically converts it to [color= #990099]text[/ color], and renders it correctly. It even actually edits your post, so that the submitted item is correct, even though you typed nonsense. But only in a post.
In your signature, if you write [color= 990099]text[/ color], then the conversion is not done, the text is rendered in plain black, and vB does not show the incorrect code (as it would if you typed [colour=] etc). The code is not automagically converted to the correct format either.
How's that for obscure inconsistency!
Since GTP6 (on vB3 - note Boombexus, that's vB3 not vB4!!!), there has been an odd artefact:
You always used to have to write [color= 990099]text[/ color]. This worked in both signature and body text. Now, in GTP6, if you write [color= 990099]text[/ color], then vB3 automagically converts it to [color= #990099]text[/ color], and renders it correctly. It even actually edits your post, so that the submitted item is correct, even though you typed nonsense. But only in a post.
In your signature, if you write [color= 990099]text[/ color], then the conversion is not done, the text is rendered in plain black, and vB does not show the incorrect code (as it would if you typed [colour=] etc). The code is not automagically converted to the correct format either.
How's that for obscure inconsistency!
