# Help with Opera browser, please!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-opera-browser-please/235785>\
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**Created:** [March 22, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-opera-browser-please/235785 "2004-03-22T23:10:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-opera-browser-please/235785/1 "2004-03-22T23:10:05Z")

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Well, the colors are back to normal after the Booberry phase and I have a nice shiny Charter Member next to my name, but I’ve lost a few things.

I can’t do colors.

I can’t change sizes.

And I can’t insert a hyperlink, although I can

> **[CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos](https://www.cnn.com)**
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> View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

do that.

and when I click on the smilies to the side (some of which are showing up as their names in a box only), nada. I know enough HTML to get by but I don’t know enough for my posts not to be really dull unless I can figure out what to do. Is there a certain mode I should be in? Should I upgrade my Opera (I’m using 6.20?)

Help!

😕 \<— if that works, I did it by hand

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-opera-browser-please/235785/2 "2004-03-23T12:08:54Z")

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I use Opera and haven’t had any problems.

These seem to work:

Blue  
small font  
**bold**

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-opera-browser-please/235785/3 "2004-03-23T12:10:05Z")

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[Aeroplanes](http://www.nzfpm.co.nz)

Links work as well.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-opera-browser-please/235785/4 "2004-03-23T19:06:50Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I know enough HTML to get by

Therein might lie the problem. This board has not accepted HTML formatting for years now. What we have is vBulletin code, which is similar to HTML, but it uses [square brackets] instead of \<angle brackets\> and some of the tag names are different.