# Discourse BBCode Color

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bbcode-color/65363
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, bbcode-color
**Created:** [June 29, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bbcode-color/65363 "2017-06-29T20:56:20Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bbcode-color/65363/9 "2022-11-26T12:15:35Z")

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Oh apologies, you are right. Still odd I agree.

If you just need coloured text, consider:

> [@Discourse Coloured Text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-coloured-text/218111):
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> “BBCode-lite” without the need to install a plugin … Adds a simple control (palette icon) to the Composer to facilitate colouring of the foreground and background of text Select a word or text Hit the palette control It will be wrapped like so: [wrap=color color=# bgcolor=#]word[/wrap] Replace the #s with html-compatible colour names, e.g. “red”, “grey” … experiment.biohazard NB Same caveats apply as to BBCode: can be used to hide text. Credits Uses @j.jaffeux’s [Generic bbcode…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-bbcode-wrapper-for-theme-components/123516)

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