Before our forum software got updated to 2.8.0.beta6, I used to nest the color tag in links - e.g.:
[[color=cyan]Discourse[/color]](https://www.discourse.org/)
Now I need to use HTML… which does not work here either:
[<font color=cyan>Discourse</font>](https://www.discourse.org/)
(Due to new user restrictions I had to remove the actual links from this post.)
It really looks nice in this table .
pfaffman
(Jay Pfaffman)
September 18, 2021, 12:39pm
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Maybe you want Discourse BBCode color ? Or maybe there’s an issue with it?
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merefield
(Robert)
September 18, 2021, 12:43pm
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This issue is the anchor, remove it and the colour works fine:
[color=cyan]Discourse[/color]
Otherwise the BBCode colour scheme is not parsed correctly.
If you wrap it the other way:
[color=cyan][Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/)[/color]
The CSS for anchor takes precedence, even though the BBColor is rendered as good html styling.
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That is what we have been using. IIRC it has been list in the plugins list since we switched to Discourse.
But I want the link and the custom color.
It used to work before. Was that not intended?
merefield
(Robert)
September 18, 2021, 12:52pm
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You’ll need the maintainers to weigh in.
merefield
(Robert)
September 18, 2021, 1:24pm
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I looked at that post in raw and it’s not using vanilla BBCode:
[<font color=slategray>Necromancer</font>](/tags/pure-necromancer)
This seems to work.
FYI:
That’s because BBCode is not running on Meta?
Demo on one of my sites which is: https://rideables.tech/t/rip-sir-clive-sinclair/603
Yes, I switched to HTML earlier today. In the past BBCode worked, too. While other users don’t mind, I wanted to avoid the use of HTML.
merefield
(Robert)
September 18, 2021, 1:35pm
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I dug into the plugin code briefly. Tbh nothing appears to have changed BBCode plugin side functionally for about 4 years? All the commits since appear to be just coding standards and repo CI stuff?
Thank you very much. Yes, it was one of the first things I noticed after the update to 2.8.0.beta6. So, I assume either the plugin needs an update or Discourse a bug fix.
Or I need to be content with using HTML, too. But I find it messy to use three markup languages.
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