Color codes

[Jackofhearts2005]

When making a post, if you highlight text, click the arrow next to the black underlined A and choose a color for the text, it works.

I want this to be cyan.

Then it changes the black underline to a cyan underline, making the correct assumption that I might want to make more text cyan. So I just click the button and this happens.

I want this to be cyan, too.



Same problem for Sienna, DarkOliveGreen, DarkGreen, DarkSlateBlue, Indigo, DarkSlateGray, DarkRed, DarkOrange, SlateGray, DimGray, SandyBrown, YellowGreen, SeaGreen, MeduimTorquoise, RoyalBlue, Magenta, DeepSkyBlue, DarkOrchid, Pink, Wheat, LemonChiffon, PaleGreen, PaleTurquoise, LightBlue and Plum.


I know most people aren't coloring several pieces of text Sienna or DarkOrchid very often but I am. It'd be nice if this bug was fixed.

[Suttkus]

Exactly what buttons are you pressing?

[Typhon]

Details please; because this works for me.

[Jackofhearts2005]

When making a post, you can change the color of your text by highlighting it and clicking here.

http://hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=407&pictureid=18679

This opens a window, as shown here.

http://hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=407&pictureid=18680

You then click a color and it adds code to the highlighted text, that when posted, will make the text look like that color, as shown here.

http://hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=407&pictureid=18681

Notice that the black bar that is under the capital A has changed from a black bar to a dark red bar.

http://hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=407&pictureid=18682

Now, if you highlight text and click the dark red bar, it will add code that makes the text dark red, like you can see in this image.

http://hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=407&pictureid=18683

Only hcrealms doesn't recognize that code. It understands "dark red" but "rgb(139,0,0)" does not mean anything to it. So instead of changing the color like you want, it leaves you will a post that looks like this:


Text text text

When you wanted it to look like this:

Text text text




Some colors like blue, have a different code so that they always set the text to COLOR="Blue" and never to COLOR="rgb(#,#,#)." However, the code is messed up for all the colors I mentioned in the first post.

[Suttkus]

This text will be Cyan

This text will be cyan also


Still unable to replicate the problem.

[Typhon]

Ok; I'm working through your test case:

TEST (by highlighting)

TEST (by applying previously selected color)

Ok; I get what's going on. Let me see if I can't fix it.

[Suttkus]

Weird, I still can't replicate the problem at all.

[Owlman]

Weird. I can't get it to mess up on mine.

[Suttkus]

Maybe the issue is browser related? I'm on the latest version of Firefox.

[Typhon]

It's an error on all browsers. It has nothing to do with the initial selection of the color. It's when you try to apply the same color to another block of text. It's a known issue with the forum software, so I'm looking for a patch.

[vamroc]

Blah Blah Blah

[Jackofhearts2005]

This text will be Cyan

This text will be cyan also


Still unable to replicate the problem.

Probably because you're still using the "choose a color" menu.

Once you've chosen to use cyan, for instance, the black bar under the A (to the left of the triangle that brings up the window where you can choose a color) turns cyan. Clicking on it (the A with the cyan bar underneath, not the triangle next to it) should then turn highlighted text cyan as well, but it doesn't.

If you just use the triangle to select cyan again, it doesn't bring up the "rgb(0, 255, 255)" part.

The problem is in trying to use a previously selected color.

[Suttkus]

I've done that, in both the quick reply and the advanced text windows. I get the colors enter properly. I do multiple uses of the button all the time for the Evidence threads, turning tags red, and I certainly don't re-use the menu each time (man, that would be slow).

[Jackofhearts2005]

It is a browser issue, actually.

In Firefox, it makes "DarkRed" stay as "DarkRed."

In Internet Explorer it changes to "darkred" which still works.

In Chrome, it makes it "rgb(139, 0, 0)" which does not work.

[Typhon]

Testing on Firefox (Windows); TEST TEST

Hmm; looks like you're right. I use linux at home, and I swear firefox wasn't working on Linux (and it definately didn't work on chrome).