Shoutbox

look at this post:
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=31...d=304814#pid304814
the second line is red....

What are you reffering to? I dont see anything wrong

right, could you be a bit more vague?
Someone wrote something in red and someone else quoted it, nothing else is red, given your detailed explanation of "the second line is red".

I assume CookieRevised is talking about the line that closes the quote. I looked at it in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Opera, and that line is always black for me.

code:

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="verdana,tahoma,arial,helvetica">quote/font><hr size="1" color="#000000" /><font color="red">* Choli nó save héscrïvir<hr size="1" color="#000000" /></blockquote><br /></font>

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Some pointers:

The color-property within a HR-tag isn't standarized and is only used by MSIE:
- IE uses the color property for the <hr> element.
- Opera and Mozilla use background-color property for the <hr> element

This is actually normal, because, the use of color like this is meant for text and the <HR>-tag is not text...

The order of tags is wrong (this is what I meant), no matter how the browsers apply the colors: the </font>-tag must come before the <hr>-tag (and even before the </blockquote>-tag), not after....

This is the "source" of his post...

code:

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[quote][color=red]* Choli nó save héscrïvir[/quote]
[/color]

:lol:

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User error...

I dunno why the <hr> even has a color attribute... it's fine black/default.

quote:

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Originally posted by WDZ
User error...

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that's a lame excuse, IPB and phpBB don't have these problems

I've seen similar problems in them. No code is smart enough to adjust for user stupidity...

Not true, really.  These forums have plenty of points where it accounts for unlikely stupidities, such as only selecting one of the 3 birthday parts.  You could essentially pass posts through a validator.  But let's be frank... who cares?