Hexcolour code for background ( used in spoilers )

[Tjommi]

[color=C2E0FF]My Text[/color]


The background colour here on this board is C2E0FF
I read this in another thread here somewhere, but when I searched for it I could not find it. I figure as I have been working with this for the last 30 minutes / hour I might as well share it with you guys.

[LRM]

Thank You.
L

[Squeeky]

I have been told at another site that freeware "Colour Spy" (yes British spelling) will provide such info. I haven't tried to access the program but it could be of value to you.

[Tjommi]

I don't remember exactly what the site was called but after much trying and failing I searched around and I found a site with a colour table thingy that I pressed ligher and darker and swapped colours back and forth. After I found that site I got the colour to this site in about 5-10 minutes

[Squeeky]

Go to:
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Web_ ... r_Spy.html

Install the exe file. Then when you want a colour open the application, click and drag the "eye-dropper" over the webpage to the colour which you require. The hexcode appears in a small window! Lovely.

[Tjommi]

lol

cheers man, that would have saved me some detective work yes. nice link.

[Newdood]

Hey gentlemen,

just checked this thread 'cause I was curious about the title. Is there any way we could use this info to improve life in the lagoon?

I'm thinking it might be handy to change the background color of a spoiler hint (from the next release?), so it matches the text.

Of course, this would only be of use if somebody OTHER than a moderator can do it, but it'd serve as a functional "purgatory" that some "moderator's assistants" might use to render the text unreadable pending review by a moderator.

[Tjommi]

What would be a major upgrade to this forum would be to get a spoiler button, and come down hard on those that didn't use it for spoilers.

But for now If people just learned the simple command that you find on the help section of the page showed here :

Example = (color=hexadecima] [/color)
How do do it = (color=FF0000]My Text[/color) ( input C2E0FF where ff0000 stands, and use []= Alt gr 8 and 9) instead of Shift 8 and 9 )

Things would be really great. It's really crappy when you follow a thread and you get spoilers that you don't want yet because you haven't tested out the game yourself properly thrown in your face.

[Craban]

There are special bbcodes for spoilers and I just tested one in a phpbb board. I doubt it's possible at aceboard though.

[Squeeky]

Craban wrote : There are special bbcodes for spoilers and I just tested one in a phpbb board. I doubt it's possible at aceboard though.

Have you given consideration to forwarding such info to Shark? As Administrator he after all is the only one who can test this.

[shark]

You wish to choose the text color ?

You have just to write your text between these 2 codes:



some value of xxxxxx:

red : ff0000
blue : 000099
violet : 993399
green : 006600
yellow : cc9933

just a hint : when I look for a color code, I use an HTML editor (Netscape composer...). I create a "new page", I select a color in the menu and I look in the page code.

[Squeeky]

I had the impression that Craban was referring to a way that we might post but moderators make the post available.

Tjommi in the entry directly above that says how the text was hidden in a thread here but the American spelling "color" was cited.

Had Craban not read Tjommi's entry properly or did he have something else in mind?

[LRM]

@Squeeky;
Newdood and Tjommi if I may I think are suggesting minor censorship be allowed to posters above a certain ranking as a temporary means of handling new posters rules violations.
Tjommi asks all spoilers be hidden with this feature to preclude those not wanting to spoil an adventure reading them by mistake. It is most difficult to ignore a cheat once you are aware of it.
L
Action by the moderators is not always timely.
I like the idea; adding another rule the posters do not read solves nothing.

[luke]

shark wrote : You wish to choose the text color ?

You have just to write your text between these 2 codes:

Hey, is that you who change the background color of the forum ? Now all spoilers will have to change their posts

[Craban]

Squeeky wrote : I had the impression that Craban was referring to a way that we might post but moderators make the post available.

...

Not really. I'm talking about a special BBCODE like (of course with square brackets like any other bbcode) that hides the content by default and offers a button to unveil the text.
In phpbb you can do this and as far as I understood aceboard is based on a very early version of phpbb.

This is how it could look like:

The hiding is done using a style of display:none versus display:inline so it's independant on the foreground and background colors. The board software replaces the BBCODE with some HTML/Javascrïpt to make this work.