# Posting questions \[Text Formatting\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 7, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422 "2020-12-07T00:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/1 "2020-12-07T00:52:44Z")
How do I get coloured and tiny font? ---
**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:** [December 7, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/2 "2020-12-07T01:16:16Z")
I don’t think you do, any more. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/3 "2020-12-07T01:37:50Z")
I’m no longer able to? Wish I could cite examples I’ve defintely seen of white font and -10 point font. Or are they “those damn brainiacs” who can code circles around some useless luddite like yours truly? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/4 "2020-12-07T02:17:56Z")
Small fonts are done with \< small \> tags \< /small \> like this tags. **Remove the spaces of course.** You can go extra small tags like this: \< small\>\< small\> tags\< /small\>\< /small\> **More tricks:** # Header sizes type a # sign at the start of the line ## Header sizes type a ## sign at the start of the line ### Header sizes type a ### sign at the start of the line #### Header sizes type a #### sign at the start of the line ##### Header sizes type a ##### sign at the start of the line ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/5 "2020-12-07T02:23:57Z")
Ok, so what am I doing wrong here? Thanks! (to be clear - trying to make “Thanks” small) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/6 "2020-12-07T02:25:38Z")
The small tag can’t have the spaces I used to show it to you. I’m going to edit your post removing the spaces. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/7 "2020-12-07T02:27:01Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > “Thanks” Ah, Thanks! Yeah, I sometimes need a second whirl at it. Thanks for the header stuff. Any idea about colour? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/8 "2020-12-07T02:30:59Z")
In my move I misplaced my cheat sheet. strikethrough [s]strikethrough[/s] \< big\> Big\< /big\> Create a Line 3 \*s or 3 -s * * * * * * We have no colors, we do have some highlights. \< ins\> insert \< /ins\> \< del\> ~~Delete~~ \< /del\> * * * `[u]underline[/u]` underline Surrounding code with three backticks ` will allow for code to span multiple lines` ```auto function foo(bar){ return bar+1; } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/9 "2020-12-07T02:32:11Z")
Actually strikethrough I somehow already knew. Darn - didja see my edit, above? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/10 "2020-12-07T02:33:05Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > We have no colors, we do have some highlights. > \< ins\> insert \< /ins\> > \< del\> ~~Delete~~ \< /del\> Ah, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/11 "2020-12-07T02:36:08Z")
I miss font colors, but then I’m running a game in the Thread Games forum. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/12 "2020-12-07T17:15:50Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > > [@What\_Exit](#): > > > > We have no colors, we do have some highlights. > > > > > \< ins\> insert \< /ins\> > > > \< del\> ~~Delete~~ \< /del\> > > Ah, thanks. It’s not really that simple. Depending on which theme or device the viewer is using, inserted test will be either green-tinted background or plain colored but **bold**. And deleted text will be either pink-tinted background or plain colored but ~~strikethrough~~. So do not use \ and \ as a hack to get a limited color palette; it doesn’t actually do that reliably. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/13 "2020-12-07T17:18:59Z")
Well that is disappointing. I’ve been using Discourse Classic. It looks like there are 9 Themes in all. Do you know which themes have the Bold & Strikethrough? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/14 "2020-12-07T17:39:27Z")
Well, crap. I know I didn’t make that up. I experienced it. But I just ran through all 9 themes on both my Win10/chrome box and my Android phone. All gave colors; none gave bold / strikethrough. The light themes are pretty similarly pink-ish and green-ish. The dark themes are a little more varied greens and blues vs maroons and browns. So I rescind my earlier post and now I need to go find where I learned this. I don’t use any other Discourse-powered boards, so it was either experimentation here, or from documentation. Sorry to mislead. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/15 "2020-12-07T17:49:29Z")
From what I remember, it’s just in certain edit summaries, not in the themes themselves. So I think it’s fine to use in posts. Honestly, since we’re not going to abuse it, it would probably be good to ask to get a color plugin added, or use theme addons to get color–whichever is possible with our current Discourse package. Of course, this requires an active administration that will be able to get the tech people to do this for us, something we’ve had trouble getting before. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/16 "2020-12-07T17:50:12Z")
No problem, and wow, thanks for checking that. Maybe it was something that got fixed along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-questions-text-formatting/927422/17 "2020-12-08T02:36:28Z")
🙂 🙂