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Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/25/2010 9:53:30 PM

BeowulfKaine

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I know its bgcolor="#FFFFFF", but I can't seem to get it to work properly, does anyone know the official written text to create your background in the profile as plain white?

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RE: Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/25/2010 11:18:02 PM

shallowdeep

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Wrapping the entire profile in a div and then using inline CSS to specify the background color should work. Code snippet below:

<div style="background-color:#ffffff;"> 
"Your profile goes here"  
</div>

Hmm. After a bit more playing around, what the site lets you do with the profile is highly browser dependent. The above code will only work if you can edit the HTML, which you can do in Safari, but maybe not other other browsers. Internet Explorer actually has a GUI to select between several background colors. That is probably preferable if possible, since you won't get any residual border from the enclosing table cell. Chrome and Firefox have a GUI for rich text formatting (unlike Safari's basic plain text input), but they seem to lack the GUI to select a background color. If all you have is a Mac, you should be able to use the above code in Safari. If you have a Windows machine, I'd just set the color in IE. I'm too lazy at the moment to test Linux browsers...

[edited a few times to mention browser differences]

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RE: Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/25/2010 11:58:00 PM

BeowulfKaine

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Thank you so much!

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RE: Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/26/2010 1:47:30 PM

BeowulfKaine

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Well I did get this to work, but apparently there is a border color for the table itself, any ideas on how to change that one to match the background color of the table?

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RE: Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/26/2010 3:43:54 PM

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If you can, logging in with IE to actually set the table background to white is probably the easiest and best approach. You can sort of fix things with CSS, though. Try replacing the first line from before with the following:

<div style="background-color: #ffffff; padding: 5px; width: 310px; position: relative; top: -9px;">

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RE: Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/26/2010 4:03:39 PM

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ORIGINAL: BeowulfKaine

I know its bgcolor="#FFFFFF", but I can't seem to get it to work properly, does anyone know the official written text to create your background in the profile as plain white?

I think you are making it more difficult on yourself than it has to be..... Just go under "edit profile" and below the profile is a table of all the background colors. White is the last one on the right in the bottom line of colors. Just have your cursor in the profile area and click on that white square.

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RE: Quick Question about Profile Background color. - 8/26/2010 5:46:22 PM

BeowulfKaine

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This worked, thanks again.

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ORIGINAL: shallowdeep

If you can, logging in with IE to actually set the table background to white is probably the easiest and best approach. You can sort of fix things with CSS, though. Try replacing the first line from before with the following:
<div style="background-color: #ffffff; padding: 5px; width: 310px; position: relative; top: -9px;">

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