Discussion Forum: Thread 343969

 Author: macebobo View Messages Posted By macebobo
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 13:32
 Subject: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 95 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

macebobo (2470)

Location:  USA, Oregon
Member Since Contact Type Status
Apr 3, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: MacsBricks
Looking at the picture in this post: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1423275

How do I go about putting color in the description? I asked shiny_stuff privately,
but I thought maybe others would like to know too.

Thank you,
John
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 13:52
 Subject: Re: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 58 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

Nubs_Select (3839)

Location:  Canada, Ontario
Member Since Contact Type Status
Mar 15, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Nub's Select
In General, macebobo writes:
  Looking at the picture in this post: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1423275

How do I go about putting color in the description? I asked shiny_stuff privately,
but I thought maybe others would like to know too.

Thank you,
John
 
 Author: macebobo View Messages Posted By macebobo
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 14:17
 Subject: Re: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 36 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

macebobo (2470)

Location:  USA, Oregon
Member Since Contact Type Status
Apr 3, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: MacsBricks
Thanks! I did not know you could do HTML tags in descriptions. Is there anywhere
the allowable tags are listed?
 Author: wildchicken13 View Messages Posted By wildchicken13
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 14:20
 Subject: Re: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 38 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

wildchicken13 (876)

Location:  USA, Illinois
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 11, 2014 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Wild Chicken
In General, macebobo writes:
  Thanks! I did not know you could do HTML tags in descriptions. Is there anywhere
the allowable tags are listed?

Pretty much all of the basic tags are allowed. You can even use the marquee tag.
 Author: Shiny_Stuff View Messages Posted By Shiny_Stuff
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 14:22
 Subject: Re: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 37 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

Shiny_Stuff (1307)

Location:  USA, New York
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 14, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Shiny Stuff
In General, macebobo writes:
  Thanks! I did not know you could do HTML tags in descriptions. Is there anywhere
the allowable tags are listed?

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?topicID=25

👍
 Author: wildchicken13 View Messages Posted By wildchicken13
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 14:14
 Subject: Re: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 45 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

wildchicken13 (876)

Location:  USA, Illinois
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 11, 2014 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Wild Chicken
In General, macebobo writes:
  Looking at the picture in this post: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1423275

How do I go about putting color in the description? I asked shiny_stuff privately,
but I thought maybe others would like to know too.

Thank you,
John

You can use HTML to customize your descriptions.

For example, the example given above was probably coded something like the image
below.

The "color=red" in the "font" tag tells the computer to color
the text red.

The "b" tags make the text bold and the "br" tag adds a line
break.
 
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 15:49
 Subject: (Cancelled)
 Viewed: 30 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

1001bricks (52503)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Member Since Contact Type Status
Sep 6, 2005 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: 1001bricks
(Cancelled)
 Author: cosmicray View Messages Posted By cosmicray
 Posted: Aug 2, 2023 14:50
 Subject: Re: How does one put color in the descriptions?
 Viewed: 39 times
 Topic: General
Cancel Message
Cancel
Reply to Message
Reply
BrickLink
ID Card

cosmicray (3498)

Location:  USA, Florida
Member Since Contact Type Status Collage
Oct 1, 2000 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
View Collage Pic
Store Closed Store: Cosmic Toys
In General, macebobo writes:
  Looking at the picture in this post: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1423275

How do I go about putting color in the description? I asked shiny_stuff privately,
but I thought maybe others would like to know too.

Thank you,
John

There is also the (rather quirky) ability to modify Unicode character codes with
a typographic color override. I’ve encountered this one time. IIRC, it was a
check mark that most fonts had color on it, which I did not want. So the possibility
exists, but it could be weird getting it to work.

Nita Rae