Glow, Shadow

[Midnite]

I'm playing around with the codes for shadow and glow, but will let the codes display to hopefully help someone else learn to use these features...

SHADOW

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[shadow=lime green,2,4]TEST[/shadow][shadow=lime green,2,4]TEST[/shadow]
this is how the Help file says to do it [shadow=color,glow width,#characters wide], but I think it looks darn ugly and not at all like the demonstration shown there

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[shadow=purple,left]TEST[/shadow]TEST

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[shadow=red,right]TEST[/shadow]TEST

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[shadow=yellow, left]TEST[/shadow][shadow=yellow, left]TEST[/shadow]
to space or not to space after the commas?-- apparently it doesn't matter

GLOW

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[glow=color,glow width,#characters wide]text goes here[/glow]also in Help file under Posting, YABBC

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[glow=red,2,4]TEST[/glow]TEST

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[size=5][glow=red,2,4]TEST[/glow][/size]TEST
size tags don't work on the outside of glow tags (which proves that size matters only if you know where to put it, heh)

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[glow=red,2,4][size=5]TEST[/size][/glow]TEST

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[glow=red,5,4][size=5]TEST[/size][/glow]TEST

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[glow=green, 2, 4]TEST[/glow][glow=green, 2, 4]TEST[/glow]

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[glow=green,2,300]TEST[/glow]TEST

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[move][glow=yellow,5,300][color=red][b][size=5]TEST[/size][/b][/color][/glow][/move]TESTPLEASE note that to insure your multiple codes will work in SE, place your codes as mirror images of each other on the different sides of the text.


Feel free to reply to practice or ask questions.  BTW, "glow" and "shadow" do not work in Netscape, and "move" doesn't work in the Netscape versions that are compatible with the forum.

[Raineypark]

TEST

TEST

[shadow=indianred][color=yellow,left]TEST[/color][/shadow]

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[color=indianred][shadow=yellow,left]TEST[/color][/shadow]  This code does not appear to work...I'm not seeing the color indianred on the last test....only the yellow shadow.  Is it written wrong?

[Midnite]

Woo hoo!

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[color=indianred][shadow=yellow,left]TEST[/color][/shadow]  This code does not appear to work...I'm not seeing the color indianred on the last test....only the yellow shadow.  Is it written wrong?

Shadow and Glow tags apparently need to be on the outside of color and size tags (and a few others) to work.  So you'll get the indian red text if you put the color tags for it inside of the shadow tags.  And don't forget to make your codes mirror images (they not only work better, but it looks more professional this way)-- with the shadow tags surrounding those other codes.

[Raineypark]

TEXT

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[glow=cyan,2,4]TEXT[[/glow]

TEXT

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[glow=cyan,2,4][size=5]TEXT[/size][/glow]

TEXT

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[glow=cyan,5,4][size=6]TEXT[/size][/glow]
Hmmmmm....can't get rid of the three lines of "code" at the bottom of the post 

[Raineypark]

[shadow=red]TEXT[shadow]

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[shadow=red][color=yellow]TEXT[/color][/shadow]
I think this is written correctly....so what's wrong 

[Midnite]

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[shadow=red][color=yellow]TEXT[/color][/shadow]I think this is written correctly....so what's wrong 

All it needs is a comma and a direction (left or right) in the 1st shadow tag.  Here's the basic code--

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[shadow=color, direction][/shadow]or

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[shadow=color,direction][/shadow]
so to shadow colored text, here's the basic code--

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[shadow=color,direction][color=xxx]TEXT[/color][/shadow]

[Raineypark]

I always WAS wretched at 'directions'....snort

(rainey ducks and runs for cover!)

[Raineypark]

TEXT

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[shadow=cyan,left][color=yellow]TEXT[/color][/shadow]
Oh, Excellent!!

[Midnite]

Hmmmmm....can't get rid of the three lines of "code" at the bottom of the post 

Looks like some extra code tags were added to the message.  Consider them gone. 

[Midnite]

TEXT

And it didn't occur to me to demonstrate shadowing colored text, so thank you for bringing it up!

[Raineypark]

Thanks.....but I really need to know WHY they were there.  I tried to delete all but one "close" code, but that didn't work either.  Each line had an "open" and "close" code...so why multiple "close" codes and not multiple "open" codes?

My head hurts! 

[Midnite]

You poor thing.  What I removed are 3 complete pairs of code tags from that post and 1 pair from another post further up the topic.  You may have inadvertently added them to your messages.

BTW, I don't know how you stand Explorer.  I'm using it now to see the shadow and glow results and all manner of weird things have been occurring, particularly when I use its back or reload buttons.

[dom]

I'm not seeing any glow or shadow in these test posts (just color). Am I missing the point or is this an IE vs NS thang?

d.

[Raineypark]

Grrrr!!!  Don't you start in on me about IE, too......Pepe tortures me about it all the time.  Like I have ANY control over this stuff in my house!! 

[Midnite]

is this an IE vs NS thang?

That be it.

Do you have Explorer on your Mac, dom?