What am I Doing Wrong

[Patti Feinberg]

I'm trying to post on CE, but I'm obviously coding wrong (I copied/pasted)...
A very Happy & Healthy Birthday to

Mental Sam

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and

RachelDrummond

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and many more!![/i]

Patti

help the spastic....help the spastic....

[Midnite]

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[color=black][size=5][center]Mental Sam[/center][/size][/color]Center must be on the outside or the other codes will not work.  Black text disappears in some templates, btw.

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[center][b]and[/b][center]The codes are in the correct order, but the 2nd tag is missing a /.

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[color=indianred][size=5][center]RachelDrummond[/center][/size][/color]

[i][move]and many more!![/move][/i]Move, like center, must wrap around all other codes.

When you center 3 lines in a row, repeating the tags on each line isn't necessary.  The corrected coding would look like this:

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A very [b]Happy & Healthy[/b] Birthday to

[center][color=black][size=5]Mental Sam[/size][/color]

[b]and[/b]

[color=indianred][size=5]RachelDrummond[/size][/color][/center]

[move][i]and many more!![/i][/move]