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The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page. |
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Can I write colored text? |
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> | TWikiPreferences defines some commonly used colors: %YELLOW%, %RED%, %PINK%, %PURPLE%, %TEAL%, %NAVY%, %BLUE%, %AQUA%, %LIME%, %GREEN%, %OLIVE%, %MAROON%, %BLACK%, %GRAY%, %SILVER% and %ENDCOLOR%. |
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< | You can also use the up-to-date style attribute - ex: style="color:#ff0000" - placed in most HTML tags. span is an all-purpose choice: "<span style="color:#ff0000">CoLoR</span>. Only old (like 3.x IE & NS) browsers have a problem with style. |
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%RED% red text %ENDCOLOR% and %GREEN% green text %ENDCOLOR% Result: red text and green text
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< | "colorCode" is the hexadecimal RGB color code, which is simply Red, Green and Blue values in hex notation (base 16, 0-F). For pure red, the RGB components are 255-0-0 - full red (255), no green or blue. That's FF-0-0 in hex, or "#ff000=" for Web page purposes. For a basic color selection (you can StandardColor names instead of hex code in the =font tag only): |
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| Black: | "#000000" |
Green: | "#008000" |
Silver: | "#c0c0c0" |
Lime: | "#00ff00" |
| Gray: | "#808080" |
Olive: | "#808000" |
White: | "#ffffff" |
Yellow: | "#ffff00" |
| Maroon: | "#800000" |
Navy: | "#000080" |
Red: | "#ff0000" |
Blue: | "#0000ff" |
| Purple: | "#800080" |
Teal: | "#008080" |
Fuchsia: | "#ff00ff" |
Aqua: | "#00ffff" |
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