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TWRoO on 31 July 2012
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TruckOSaurus said:
JEMC said:

Now that all this tricks are coming to the general knowledge, does anyone know why many options from the Rich Text Reply, like headings or the horizontal ruler, don't work?

it's very frustating trying to post some an article or something else, making use of the tools only to find out that all that work has gone wasted because nothing besides bold, italic and underline works.

Technical answer: All our posts are in a container called post-body which has styling directives with the !important tag which overrides a lot of the formatting that the Rich Text Editor should allow us to do.

As for why the website has been designed this way, you'd have to ask ioi. I guess it was in an effort to have some uniformity on the forums but it's not like crazy colored posts were really a problem in the past.

Well there was the odd person who liked posting in purple or blue, but generally people didn't mind that... there were a couple of people who posted whole paragraphs in red or orange though which is more annoying, but they can just be warned and banned like other infractions if needed.

I've argued for bringing back the colour options again because if you try to create a table with sales data in it it's nice to be able to colour text or the background of the cell in order to distinguish between different bits of data (e.g. Wii, PS3 and 360 columns). Wheras ioi wants a "consistent professional look" or something. I mean it's his site and he can ultimately do what he wants but that decision makes no sense to me at all, this is a public gaming forum not a school or business website, no one coming here is going to think anything bad if 1 in 1000 users writes consistently in blue or uses colour to highlight portions of text.