how do you get color text when you Submit a log?

[Fireflying]

I've seen logs with colored text. How do you get that?

[+RIclimber]

I think it's UBB code. [red] Red Text [/red]

 [red] [/red]

[+Viajero Perdido]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

[+wmpastor]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

Aw, quit clowning around!

 

While you're posting, do you see the fonts and sizes above the text area? Just to the right is a color palette logo. Click it & a choice of colors appears. Click your choice and go!

[+wmpastor]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

Are you saying that caching is like a religion to some?

[+JohnnyVegas]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

Why would anybody go to church where they could not be dressed like a childrens entertainer. Those are churches run by small minded people.

[+JohnnyVegas]

I've seen logs with colored text. How do you get that?

If you also wand bold faced fonts font For larger fonts font

 

For bold fonts

For larger font

 

have fun but ll these things add time toyour loging so I do not use these functions on all my logs

Edited October 26, 2013 by JohnnyVegas

[Fireflying]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

Aw, quit clowning around!

 

While you're posting, do you see the fonts and sizes above the text area? Just to the right is a color palette logo. Click it & a choice of colors appears. Click your choice and go!

 

no I am talking about in logs...for geocaches. Not forums. When I submit a log there is not color or size or anything to.

[Fireflying]

I've seen logs with colored text. How do you get that?

If you also wand bold faced fonts font For larger fonts font

 

For bold fonts

For larger font

 

have fun but ll these things add time toyour loging so I do not use these functions on all my logs

what?

[Fireflying]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

 

I'm a little confused. Not sure what you are talking about here. Is it relevant to my question?

[+NYPaddleCacher]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

 

I'm a little confused. Not sure what you are talking about here. Is it relevant to my question?

 

I think what he's implying here is that if you want to add some color in your online logs to do so in moderation. When web pages were first created (in 1990), the HTML markup language provided the ability to format text using a range of fonts, sizes, and colors and there were some that created pages with a variety of colors and font sizes, just because they could. The infamous marquee tag (which causes text to blink) is still considered the pinnacle of lameness.

 

As someone suggested earlier you can colorize text by using UBB code, a markup language that is support in the logs (and the forums). Here is a page that explains How to use UBB Code

 

 

 

 

[+tom k.]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

 

I'm a little confused. Not sure what you are talking about here. Is it relevant to my question?

 

I think what he's implying here is that if you want to add some color in your online logs to do so in moderation. When web pages were first created (in 1990), the HTML markup language provided the ability to format text using a range of fonts, sizes, and colors and there were some that created pages with a variety of colors and font sizes, just because they could. The infamous marquee tag (which causes text to blink) is still considered the pinnacle of lameness.

 

As someone suggested earlier you can colorize text by using UBB code, a markup language that is support in the logs (and the forums). Here is a page that explains How to use UBB Code

[+tom k.]

so how do you write it so it shows a color when logging found it log. I tried with no luck.

Edited October 27, 2013 by tom k.

[+MartyBartfast]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

 

Never

 

[+wmpastor]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

 

I'm a little confused. Not sure what you are talking about here. Is it relevant to my question?

I think what Viajero is saying is that "serious" entries are in black & white. gc.com is like a church, & colorful logs are like clowns in church! I think he means don't overdo the color - & he's worried that you will.

 

As for cache listings, you can get into color using html text ... it complicates things, but it's learnable.

[+Viajero Perdido]

The best way to make your logs stand out is to write something interesting.

[+Don_J]

All things in moderation, please.

 

Would you go to church dressed like a children's entertainer?

 

I'm a little confused. Not sure what you are talking about here. Is it relevant to my question?

 

I guess it was an obscure way to say that you should use the formatting in moderation.

 

Also, keep in mind that many users, especially the owners of the caches you will be posting to, will be reading the logs through email notifications, which are not formatted but show the raw code. We have a local cacher that relies heavily on formatting his logs, to the point of changing every letter to a different color. It makes the logs almost unreadable in the email notifications.

 

Here is an example of what a typical email look like,

 

[blue]I[/blue][green] found[/green][red] your[/red][green] geocache,
[/green] [blue]Thanks,[/blue] [brown]G[/brown][green]e[/green][limegreen]o[/limegreen][maroon]c[/maroon][navy]a
[/navy][orange]c[/orange][purple]h[/purple][red]e[/red][teal]r[/teal]

[+DanOCan]

To quote Troy McClure from a sex-ed video on "The Simpsons": "Now that you know how it's done...don't do it."

[+LayDBugz]

I use a red sharpie for signing logs. Adds a little something extra!

[+NeverSummer]

To add,

The html coding that you can use isn't something that you can edit on your log like you can here in the forums. You will need to use a program like Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) to format your logs for you, or you can cut and paste the html "wording" from a file you save elsewhere.

 

Once you learn how to write the code, you can keep cutting and pasting, or you might eventually be comfortable enough to just type it in the log form as you go.

 

NYPaddleCacher's post above has a good ubb link to take a peek at. Good luck!