'Signature' discovery

[Gina Stevenson]

'Been trying now & then for weeks (or more?) now to change my signature. However, tho' I didn't really add that much, took some other stuff out, it would not let me do it. It kept telling me I was over the limit. "But why," I wondered. I'd not used more, but eliminated some, etc.

Finally, I realized by doing the right (tho' left here)-clicking within the signature-formation box, one is able to see the source codes---the BBS codes---as when on some webpage.

It appears there is a glitch where old, now-unused codes remain there (hidden), tho' not working, unless you just wipe out all that you wrote, and begin again. I'd decided to have fewer letter-spaces for it to count against me, so made the font uniform. However, the names of those previously used fonts were still there, and then several ending {/font}'s as well.

So, I just totally rewrote below the previous text that had been there (to get the wording right of that portion which I was keeping), and then wiped out the previous portion that had not rid itself of some codes that were no longer in use, since highlighting & changing the text did not actually work to revise some of the coding that is not seen.

[Carsten Schermuly]

Dear Gina,

as you will know, HTML - Code will be written by using brackets "<" and ">",
to teach the browser what a command will be, to interprete it, but to hide it (not to show what is written inside the brackets)
the same is with BBCode "[" and "]".
BB = Bulletin Board

The forum script will identify the BBCode and will change the BB - Commands against related HTML - Commands.
Easy done -
if you find a string
[color="red"],
so please write
<font color="red">
(or please write <font color="#FF0000"> -
it is matter of the script developers to make such a choice - the result is the same, red coloured scripture output. There are more possibilities.)


BBCode makes forum users able to format text and to link to pictures and other files without to use HTML - Code. In case, HTML - Code were allowed in Forum software, it could been misused to let run scripts like JavaScript to attack the servers or forums software or to make the forum readers browser crazy.

Please see BBCode on WikiPedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode

In the Ceilidh - forum software is HTML - Code partially allowed, but then it is restricted to selected functions, e. g. a HTML - opening tag
<script type="JavaScript">
will be found by Ceilidh once a user does order to save his text or attachment, including this command - and will be deleted before the command will be saved, before such script could be used, before such script could start.
A tag "image" (img) and the pictures address, its "source" (src),
<img src="http : // my domain / my picture folder / my sunset photo">
and other as harmless known HTML - commands will been accepted by Ceilidh.

[Carsten Schermuly]

It appears there is a glitch where old, now-unused codes remain there (hidden), tho' not working, unless you just wipe out all that you wrote, and begin again. I'd decided to have fewer letter-spaces for it to count against me, so made the font uniform. However, the names of those previously used fonts were still there, and then several ending {/font}'s as well. In case, the elder commands are following the correct order, they can be used like new written commands.

It needs to read

opening commands forwards
and
closing commands backwards,

both in the very same order,

like this
(first = first command, second = second command etc)

your text
(correct example).



It does not matter you do count upwards or downwards or you will mix the opening commands.
It needs
to close exactly in the same order you have chosen for the opening commands - just "backwards".



If the commands do not follow strictly the correct order,
like

your text

the forum script is confused and will show you not what you like to get.
Another mix - the same order, but the closing commands not read "backwards",

your text

will also not get a wanted result.



In case you will change the opening commands order,


(line A)

you can do that - it is not important what opening command will come first
("left", "right" or "centered", "scripture size", "scripture colour" or "scripture weight" bold / light),

you have to close after the same order - just "backwards".


(correct example - in common with line A).


That is all - that is the whole wisdom. :)

opening commands forwards
and
closing commands backwards

[Carsten Schermuly]

Again - correct examples

your text

your text

your text

your text

your text

your text

your text

your text

This is not true BBCode, because the brackets shall be shown
and not been interpreted by the forum script.
I like to show the correct order,
the closing commands must appear "mirrored"
opening = forwards, closing = backwards.
The order of the opening commands is not important,
it does matter, the closing commands will follow "backwards".