# testing colours **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 7, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528 "2007-11-07T10:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/1 "2007-11-07T10:33:11Z")
[del]red text with black strikethrough[/del] [del]red text with red strikethrough[/del] [del][COLOR=Black]Black text with red strikethrough[/del][/COLOR] [del][COLOR=Red]red text with blue strikethrough[/del][/COLOR] [COLOR=Blue][del][COLOR=Red]red text with blue strikethrough, underlined in green[/del][/COLOR][/COLOR] Interesting ---
**Author:** ![Puzzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@Puzzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Puzzler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/2 "2007-11-07T14:13:30Z")
FWIW, I see a single color (black / red) on each line. Browser=IE6.0. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/3 "2007-11-07T14:40:31Z")
Well there’s strange! [here](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/stuff/colours.png) is what it looks like in Firefox Must be something to do with the way IE interprets nested tags - the vB formatting tags are translated verbatim to HTML, so the last line of the post is: \\ \\ \red text with blue strikethrough, underlined in green\ \\ \\ (line breaks inserted here for clarity) I’m pretty sure Firefox is rendering it the way it’s supposed to be done. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Composer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Composer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Composer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/4 "2007-11-07T15:10:33Z")
I’m also using Firefox and, like **Puzzler** , only see either all red or all black on a single line. On preview: Strange…it displays correctly on preview, but when I first opened the thread, it was all black or all red. ETA: And after submitting the post, it’s back to all black or all red. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/5 "2007-11-07T15:24:44Z")
That’s even weirder. You’re not using IETab or something are you? ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/6 "2007-11-07T16:07:11Z")
I’m using Firebird, and all the text displays with the colors matching the description. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/7 "2007-11-07T16:17:07Z")
IE on this machine displays it as **Puzzler** described - I thought for a moment it might be that the server is dishing up a different bit of code depending on the browser that’s asking for it - but no, it’s the same in either case (or at least that particular line is - it might be something else impacting on it). ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/8 "2007-11-07T18:55:35Z")
I’m using Firefox, and I see it exactly as described and as show in the screen capture. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/9 "2007-11-07T18:56:31Z")
My IE 6.0.2900.2180.etc. shows all red and/or black. I’ll check my IE 7 tonight at home; we’re only IE 6 at work. My Firefox 2.0.0.8 shows all as described. ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/10 "2007-11-07T19:32:51Z")
Under Safari 3.0.4 it looks the same as in your firefox Screenshot ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/11 "2007-11-07T22:14:51Z")
Everything looks as it should on Opera 9.24. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/12 "2007-11-07T23:03:21Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] My IE 6.0.2900.2180.etc. shows all red and/or black. I’ll check my IE 7 tonight at home; we’re only IE 6 at work. My Firefox 2.0.0.8 shows all as described. [/QUOTE] IE 7.0.5730.11 all red and black. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-colours/425528/13 "2007-11-08T06:06:51Z")
IE 6.0.2900.2180 shows all red and/or black today. Yesterday I thought you were posting some sort of optical illusion 😕