Do not use the extended visual toolbar button to change the text color.

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On the Visual tab of the editor, if you click the last regular toolbar button “Toggle Toobar (Shift+Alt+Z)” you get an additional row of toolbar buttons.

Don’t use the toolbar button “A ▼ (Text Color)” to change the text color.

It will look fine until you post the message where upon it turns into unrecognized HTML tag code like span style=”color: #ff0000;” … span within less and greater symbols.

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Yes, the site uses Simple BBCodes only

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[MrJimPhelps]

Just to be clear…

MrJimPhelps wrote:

Colors work too. Here’s how I did my signature:

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by MrJimPhelps.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by MrJimPhelps.

So here are some BBCodes to set text color:

[color color=#7F7F7F]gray[/color] [color color=#FF0000]red[/color] [color color=#00FF00]green[/color] [color color=#0000FF]blue[/color]

Here is the result of using them:
gray red green blue

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Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
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See also, from the Forum Alphabetical Order bbCode List:

geekdom wrote:

Each code post is presented by giving the name, followed on the next line by the command.

To get the bbCode to show here:
[ pre ] was used at start information without spaces.
[ /pre ] was used at end information without spaces.

bold
text
————–
color
text
————–
center
text
————–
image

————–
italic
text
————–
left
text
————–
link
https://www.askwoody.com/
————–
ordered list

     
text
   
     
text

————–
quote
text
————–
right
text
————–
size
text
————–
strikeover
text
————–
unordered list

     
text
   
     
text

————–
underline
text

Click on the post link to see the actual BBCodes since postquote used here interpreted them instead in what appears to be a bug in WordPress…

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The use of color in replies has been discouraged in many fora, not just here. For one thing, it invites additional spam attention to the site, and can also cause html issues that need manually addressing by our hard-working volunteer moderators.
It can be very distracting when reading forum threads – some assume their every post to be important enough to use color to get attention, when it is only attention-seeking, and not relevant to the value of their content.

It is acceptable in signatures, when used appropriately.

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Kirsty wrote:

The use of color in replies has been discouraged in many fora, not just here. For one thing, it invites additional spam attention to the site, and can also cause html issues that need manually addressing by our hard-working volunteer moderators.
It can be very distracting when reading forum threads – some assume their every post to be important enough to use color to get attention, when it is only attention-seeking, and not relevant to the value of their content.

It is acceptable in signatures, when used appropriately.

OK. I will omit colours in future posts.

(Now that I just figured out how to put them in. )

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1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)

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