I am setting up a self hosted Discourse forum. Thumbs up for the well documented install process and Kudos to the community for active support in forums ! Recently I noticed that I was unable to color text using HTML span tag as follows. test Am I missing some plugin for this? I have used discourse-bbcode-color successfully. So coloring seems to work otherwise. Screenshot is attached for reference. Thanks! [Screenshot_20230619_104622]

[image] Formatting posts using markdown, BBCode, and HTML Using Discourse Text color and text background color doesn’t seem to work with or bbcode, am I missing something? some red markdown text some red markdown text bbcode: [color=red]Red color text[/color] [color=red]Red color text[/color]

Welcome, Anargha! :blob_wave: Alternatively, there’s an official BBCode plugin that supports colors plus other tags: [image] Discourse BBCode Plugin information_source Summary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts. discourse2 Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Enterprise plans mechanic Self-host Install Install plugins on a self-hosted site hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode The Discourse BBCode plugin enhances the Markdown composer [1] with support for the BBCode syntax beyond what is included by default (i.e. [i], [b], [s], [u], [… You might also be interested in this: [image] Customize posts' contents with your own styles Developer Guides Requirements information_source To be able to use these tips and tricks, you need to be an administrator of either a self-hosted Discourse instance or a Discourse-hosted plan higher than Basic. Introduction Discourse supports several methods to format and customize a post’s contents. You can find the list here: But sometimes, you’ll want something more specific, for example, a link that looks like a button. [Green button] This is the kind of modification we’ll learn here. The logic I’l…

Can HTML <span> tag be used to format text in editor?

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anargha (Anargha) June 21, 2023, 9:47am 5

Thanks for pointing to custom styling. And yes, I am enjoying customizing discourse for my community. !

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Can HTML <span> tag be used to format text in editor?

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