# Users cannot change the color of links (with BBCode) anymore

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cannot-change-the-color-of-links-with-bbcode-anymore/203894>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 18, 2021, 11:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cannot-change-the-color-of-links-with-bbcode-anymore/203894 "2021-09-18T11:22:23Z")\
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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:** [September 18, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cannot-change-the-color-of-links-with-bbcode-anymore/203894/6 "2021-09-18T13:24:02Z")

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I looked at that post in raw and it’s not using vanilla BBCode:

```plaintext
[<font color=slategray>Necromancer</font>](/tags/pure-necromancer)

```

This seems to work.

FYI:

> [@eisprinzessin](#):
>
> Now I need to use HTML… which does not work here either:

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](https://rideables.tech/t/rip-sir-clive-sinclair/603)

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