Glow, Shadow

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Am I missing the point or is this an IE vs NS thang?

Yes, glow and shadow only work in IE because those two effects use Microsoft filters.


As for why the color and size tags don't work on the outside of the glow or shadow tags, one needs to know some HTML and how the system creates the glow and shadow effects to understand why that is. Glow and shadow are acheived using the style element of the td tag for table definitions. Nothing outside of a table ever affects what's inside the table. That has to be coded explicitly within the table itself.

If anyone is interested in an introductory explanation of table styles, check out:

  Tutorials -  HTML > Table Styles

[dom]

is this an IE vs NS thang?

That be it.

Do you have Explorer on your Mac, dom?

Internet Exploder? Yes. But as well as being a Mac , I am also a Netscape .

Geez, I hope it doesn't rain.

Turkey dom

PS - Seriously, I've been subconciously warned not to use IE - space hog, "exploder", etc. So I avoid it like the plague. I am also under the impression that IE has something to do with Microsoft which I try to boycott in any way shape or form. Are my fears unfounded?

[Raineypark]

  Have you NEVER heard  the expression "More Information Than I Needed"?  All we wanted here was pretty colours and cool effects.....

[Minja]

TEST  [/shadow]

TEST  [/glow]



   As you can see I'm getting the shadow and glow features but can't use size with them.  I have IE.  I had NS when I had prodigy and it crashed all the damn time so I won't go back to that.  Maybe someday this Yabb thingy can get tweeked so all of us can enjoy the full range of features.  Until then I'll be patient.  I'm really not that hard to please! 
[/size]

Always, Minja [/color]

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Have you NEVER heard  the expression "More Information Than I Needed"?

When it comes to surfing the Web, understanding what one is seeing, and why something isn't coming out the way one might expect it should, there's actually no such thing as too much info.

All we wanted here was pretty colours and cool effects.....

Excuse me, just doing my job - but consider me clued in. In the future I'll know to never trouble your pretty little head with explanations (i.e don't even bother to ask for them).

[Mysterious Benefactor]

TEST  [/shadow]

TEST  [/glow]



   As you can see I'm getting the shadow and glow features but can't use size with them.

Minja, that's because you have your size tags on the outside of your shadow and glow tags. As Midnite was demonstating in the first post in this topic, both size tags need to be inside. So, this:

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[shadow=red,left][size=5]TEST  :) [/size][/shadow]

[glow=red,2,4,][size]=5]TEST  :) [/size][/glow]
will work like this:

TEST 

TEST 

[Patti Feinberg]

[glow]test[/glow]

Okay...Midnite...what were the numbers for?

2,4??

Patti

Okay...not right...will post, go back & try to fix....


Okay...why does it show the code tags?
Are the numbers to signify which color is to "glow"?

[Midnite]

[glow]test[/glow]

Okay...Midnite...what were the numbers for?

2,4??
<snip>
Okay...why does it show the code tags?
Are the numbers to signify which color is to "glow"?

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[glow=color,glow width,#characters wide]your name[/glow]You're seeing the tags in your post because your code isn't complete.  Add the = sign after glow and choose a color name.  The 2 is the glow width, and the 4 is the number of characters, so to make your name glow it should be at least a 5.

[Cassandra]

TEST[/size][/color]

TEST[/size][/color]

TEST[/size][/color]


Okay,  I think I finally got it!!

Im glad this was bought up because I could never get the "shadow & color" to go with size and thought it was something to do with IE.


Cassandra[/size][/color]

[Patti Feinberg]

Patti

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[glow=color,glow width,#characters wide]your name[/glow]You're seeing the tags in your post because your code isn't complete.  Add the = sign after glow and choose a color name.  The 2 is the glow width, and the 4 is the number of characters, so to make your name glow it should be at least a 5.

[glow=green 2,3]Ola[/glow]

now what's wrong???
hmm

Patti

It is eluding me.....

[Minja]

TEST 

Thank You, Thank You MB! (she chortled in her joy!)[/color]

Always, Minja 

[Midnite]

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[glow=green][size=4]2,3 Ola[/glow][/size]

Patti, keep all the code inside the brackets.  That 1st tag should be

Then get that 2nd size tag inside the glow (or shadow, if you were attempting that) tags.  The code tags on either side of the text should be mirror images of each other, or in opposite order:  glow, size, text, size, glow.

Is this helping?

[Cassandra]

Also, Patti, don't forget to put the comma in after the color as well as the number.
  Ola[/size]


(I can't tell you how many mistakes I made with this just by forgetting to add that one comma!!)  It would drive me nuts trying to figure out what I did wrong.


Hope this helps.

Cassandra

[Patti Feinberg]

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[glow=green][size=4]2,3 Ola[/glow][/size]

Patti, keep all the code inside the brackets.  That 1st tag should be

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[glow=green,2,3]

Thank
God its
FRIDAY

(For most of us)

Okay...NOW what??? The Friday should be red, not white, oops.
But why not Thank...what's wrong with coding?

Patti


Patti

[Midnite]

Thank
God its
FRIDAY

(For most of us)

Okay...NOW what??? The Friday should be red, not white, oops.
But why not Thank...what's wrong with coding?

That opening glow tag in my post that you quoted (which didn't have a closing tag) was reacting with your closing tag around Thank, so I enclosed that one (mine) in code tags, and now you're all set.  Congrats!