# Test colours from phone **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414 "2011-07-09T15:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/21 "2011-07-11T13:03:24Z")
Without even knowing it, I’d say my color is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/22 "2011-07-11T16:50:23Z")
Awww…I don’t have a color. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/23 "2011-07-11T16:53:33Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Awww…I don’t have a color. You have to leave out the quotation marks to get the bug. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to make much difference for you. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/24 "2011-07-11T17:14:28Z")
do I? Cool. I was hoping it wasn’t ivory. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/25 "2011-07-11T18:23:42Z")
Let’s just see what I get… Oh, that’s nice. 🙂 P.S. That second one is the OP’s color… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/26 "2011-07-11T19:06:49Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No they didn’t. Am I to take it you folks are putting your usernames in as “color”? Because I’m looking at the code and it shows something different. test ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/27 "2011-07-12T22:21:08Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > You don’t need quotes. God DAMN. But thank you 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 13, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/28 "2011-07-13T13:21:22Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Am I to take it you folks are putting your usernames in as “color”? Because I’m looking at the code and it shows something different. > > test Use the quote method, rather than looking at the source in your browser. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/29 "2011-07-13T14:20:51Z")
I did use the quote method. This is what **kaylasdad99** ’s post looks like. [noparse] > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Let’s just see what I get… > > Oh, that’s nice. 🙂 > > P.S. That second one is the OP’s color… [/noparse] Maybe you should try something before telling others what they should be doing. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/30 "2011-07-13T17:24:52Z")
“Color=foolsguinea” Oddly scarlet. “Color=f0015” I expected midnight. Like this. (color=0f0015) “Color=f00159” I expected salmon. Pretty close. “Color=9u1nea” “Color=9012ea” “Color=9010ea” “Color=901fea” “Color=foolsguinea” Oddly scarlet. “Color=f” Is this the same? “Color=f00000” Is this? No. weird. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/31 "2011-07-13T18:47:29Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I did use the quote method. This is what **kaylasdad99** ’s post looks like. > > [noparse] [/noparse] > > Maybe you should try something before telling others what they should be doing. That’s not what I see. I get this: [noparse] > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Let’s just see what I get… > > Oh, that’s nice. 🙂 > > P.S. That second one is the OP’s color… [/noparse] What browser are you using? ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/32 "2011-07-13T19:18:28Z")
Wonder how this will turn out Heh, color = ablueygreenygray manages to give a colour completely unlike any of those mentioned 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/33 "2011-07-13T20:00:06Z")
[COLOR=skyblue]skyblue [/COLOR][COLOR=royalblue]royalblue [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]blue [/COLOR][COLOR=darkblue]darkblue [/COLOR][COLOR=orange]orange [/COLOR][COLOR=orangered]orangered [/COLOR][COLOR=crimson]crimson [/COLOR][COLOR=red]red [/COLOR][COLOR=firebrick]skyblue [/COLOR][COLOR=darkred]darkred [/COLOR][COLOR=green]green [/COLOR][COLOR=limegreen]limegreen [/COLOR][COLOR=seagreen]seagreen [/COLOR][COLOR=deeppink]deeppink [/COLOR][COLOR=tomato]tomato [/COLOR][COLOR=coral]coral [/COLOR][COLOR=purple]purple [/COLOR][COLOR=indigo]indigo [/COLOR][COLOR=burlywood]burlywood [/COLOR][COLOR=sandybrown]sandybrown [/COLOR][COLOR=sienna]sienna [/COLOR][COLOR=chocolate]chocolate [/COLOR][COLOR=teal]teal [/COLOR][COLOR=silver]silver Crazyhorse [/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/34 "2011-07-13T22:00:24Z")
vermilion vermillion gray grey chartreuse livid ---
**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:** [July 14, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/35 "2011-07-14T01:11:49Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Maybe you should try something before telling others what they should be doing. Someone woke up on the cranky side of the bed this morning. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/36 "2011-07-14T02:02:57Z")
Interesting. I’m using Firefox 3.6 at work, and all the username colors just show up as black there. But here at home, I’ve got Firefox 5.0, and it renders them as actual colors. Wonder what the issue is? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/37 "2011-07-14T16:14:56Z")
Yeah, **ultrafilter** , I just noticed the same thing. Firefox 3 does not recognize the usernames as colors, and displays black. Ooh, but I just quoted into the preview window, and they’re showing up colored. 😕 Now that is weird. > [@ultrafilter](#): > > That’s not what I see. I get this: > > [noparse] > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > Let’s just see what I get… > > > > Oh, that’s nice. 🙂 > > > > P.S. That second one is the OP’s color… > > [/noparse] > > What browser are you using? Using Internet Explorer (8?) I got what I posted last time. Curiously, on a different computer running Firefox 3, I get [noparse] > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Let’s just see what I get… > > Oh, that’s nice. 🙂 > > P.S. That second one is the OP’s color… [/noparse] See, the same thing I got last time. What browser are _you_ using? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/38 "2011-07-14T16:31:37Z")
Hey, I should be blue not red. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414.md?page=1)