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Reasons Why The Man Is Nit-Picky

#1
Originally posted by The Man™
I know it would be very easy to take this overboard, but the list of colours in the .php reply submit button is kinda skimpy. I've found a ton of HTML predefined colours, and I think that list only uses twenty of them.

Anyhow, here's the list I've compiled (you can ignore the HTML colour references if you want; I put those in there for my own edification, and to make sure the colours were really "real," and I'd have to explain why that was necessary with lots of technical jargon and stuff that most of you won't understand and I don't really have time to explain anyway, so yeah. I'm rambling. Woohoo). You can expand the submit reply's colours list if you like with this stuff, I guess. A lot of these colors wouldn't show up for crap against either of the EoFF backgrounds, so including them might not be a good idea, but I'm including all of them anyway.

#000000=black
#800000=maroon
#8B0000=darkred
#B22222=firebrick
#A52A2A=brown
#CA0E00=scarlet
#DC143C=crimson
#FF0000=red
#A0522D=sienna
#D2691E=chocolate
#FF7F50=coral
#FF8C00=darkorange
#FFA500=orange
#FF6347=tomato
#DAA520=goldenrod
#F4A460=sandybrown
#808000=olive
#DEB887=burlywood
#D2B48C=tan
#FFD700=gold
#FFFF00=yellow
#F5F5DC=beige
#FFFFE0=lightyellow
#ADFF2F=greenyellow
#90EE90=lightgreen
#7FFF00=chartreuse
#00FF00=lime
#32CD32=limegreen
#2E8B57=seagreen
#008000=green
#006400=darkgreen
#008080=teal
#008B8B=darkcyan
#40E0D0=turquoise
#00FFFF=aqua, cyan
#7FFFD2=aquamarine
#E0FFFF=lightcyan
#F0FFFF=azure
#ADD8E6=lightblue
#87CEEB=skyblue
#4169E1=royalblue
#0000FF=blue
#00008B=darkblue
#292970=midnightblue
#4B0082=indigo
#800080=purple
#8B008B=darkmagenta
#9400D3=darkviolet
#8A2BE2=blueviolet
#FF00FF=magenta
#EE82EE=violet
#FFB6C1=lightpink
#FFC0CB=pink
#FF69B4=hotpink
#FF1493=deeppink
#808080=gray
#A9A9A9=darkgray
#C0C0C0=silver
#FFFFFF=white

Yop. I luff colour. Here ya go, if you want 'em.

38BCEE*randomunrelatedthoughtthatisn'timportantenoughtogetitsownthread*
Maybe having an [opb]blah[/opb] tag to yield Originally posted by blah would help save even more board space. Dunno.

Peace
Kilgore Trout
#2
Originally posted by The Man™
I've decided that I want to define my custom font colour via style sheet, which will be placed in my signature so that if you don't have signatures enabled, you won't see my funky blue font. The problem arises in the { character, which automatically gets converted to { in the board HTML. Rather bad for defining style sheets, since the left brace is vital for defining style sheets.

Is there a reason for this character to be disabled? If it weren't, those of you who didn't like my post colour would be able to avoid seeing it anymore. Ever. Just by disabling sigs. And that could spread to other users, too, I'd imagine, if they knew enough about CSS.

Here's my style sheet, which I'm randomly inserting now so you can behold its loveliness/ugliness, and also because I have nothing better to do:

<style type="text/css">
#manly {font-size: "84.62%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"; color: "#38BCEE"}
#manly table {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"; color: "#38BCEE"}
#manly tr {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"; color: "#38BCEE"}
#manly td {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"; color: "#38BCEE"}
#manly p {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"; color: "#38BCEE"}
#manly A:link {color="#38E897"; text-decoration: "none"}
#manly A:visited {color="#38E897"; text-decoration: "none"}
#manly A:active {color="#38E897"; text-decoration: "none"}
#manly A:hover {color="#7EB7ED"; text-decoration: "underline overline"; background-color: "#204962"}
#mansig {font-size: "69.23%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"}
#mansig table {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"}
#mansig tr {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"}
#mansig td {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"}
#mansig p {font-size: "100.00%"; font-family: "Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"}
#mansigad {color="#38BCEE"}
#mansigad A:link {color="#38E897"; text-decoration: "none"}
#mansigad A:visited {color="#38E897"; text-decoration: "none"}
#mansigad A:active {color="#38E897"; text-decoration: "none"}
#mansigad A:hover {color="#7EB7ED"; text-decoration: "underline overline"; background-color: "#204962"}
</style>
And here's an example of it in action, and another. In the first one, there are multiple style sheets per page, and very little gets screwed up. (Some of the stuff is screwed up, but not enough of it is screwed up for me to figure out why it's screwed up, but I was going to make a new thread asking people on the boards whether my new style sheet screwed up their browsers. Since I can't post the durn things, I couldn't do that, so we'll worry about that later... if you could temporarily change that, I'd appreciate it).

Peace
Kilgore Trout
#3
Originally posted by The Man™

Oh, and if someone could fix all the style sheet stuff so that "10px" is changed to "xx-small" and "12px" is changed to "x-small," that'll make things look a bit more tidy around here, I think. *nod*


I guess I just mean that you ask for unneccessary stuff, and once you come down to it, that just makes unsure of how to spell unneccessary.

...or something.

*whizz* I like pancakes.