Sig help please

LouBlue

Sorry to be a pain, I have looked in other sig threads but they get a bit techie for me. I don't have 5 lines in my sig but it keeps telling me I do when I want to change it slightly, but it would still be below 5 lines. I see people with longer sigs than me so I know I am doing something wrong. I keep reading about BCC codes or something but don't know what they are.

LouBlue

Anyone?

~daisy~_2

im stuck on the same thing !!

LouBlue

But at least your sig looks 5 lines long. Mine is only 2 but it won't let me add another line.

fermi

LouBlue wrote: »

But at least your sig looks 5 lines long. Mine is only 2 but it won't let me add another line.

Sometimes the error about more than 5 lines is really to do with too many characters/formatting in the signature, rather than how many lines. Seems to be a badly written error message.

Try something simpler first, without so much formatting.

Something like:

[noparse]

Comp Wins so far since Feb 2008 ~ Feb ~ 2 x National Wedding Fair Tickets - £24 Mar ~ CSI DVD Boxset - £25 - Holiday to Beijing! Apr ~ Virgin Vouchers - £99 + £500 :dance:

[/noparse]

Which should give:

Comp Wins so far since Feb 2008 ~ Feb ~ 2 x National Wedding Fair Tickets - £24 Mar ~ CSI DVD Boxset - £25 - Holiday to Beijing! Apr ~ Virgin Vouchers - £99 + £500 :dance:

Click the button in the top right corner of the editor to see the code that makes up your signature.

LouBlue

I have pressed that Editor button. Was trying to think how to get rid of so much coding but no matter what the text style or colour, it all gives a code, doesn it?

What does no parse mean?

I wanted to add a line, but it wouldn't let me.

fermi

LouBlue wrote: »

Was trying to think how to get rid of so much coding but no matter what the text style or colour, it all gives a code, doesn it?

If you don't specify a font, then the forum just uses the default which is Verdana. That saves on some coding. That is what the example code I gave does.

LouBlue wrote: »

What does no parse mean?

That's just the code you put in to get the forum to show the BBCode. It's not something to put in the signature itself.

peter999

LouBlue wrote: »

I have pressed that Editor button. Was trying to think how to get rid of so much coding but no matter what the text style or colour, it all gives a code, doesn it?

What does no parse mean?

I wanted to add a line, but it wouldn't let me.

Your post #4 seems to have a number of blank lines below your sig compared to post #6.

Using noparse allows you to see the formatting commands.

To see the codes, edit your sig & add [no parse] at beginning & [/no parse] at the end.
But don't include the space in [no parse],[/no parse], noparse should be one word.

peter999

peter999

See what noparse, /noparse does to my signature below.
It displays the formatting commands, bold & color, so you can see what's hidden in there.

peter999

LouBlue

peter999 wrote: »

See what noparse, /noparse does to my signature below.

peter999

Thanks. I have not chosen a Font so its gone back to Verdana which seems to give me a little more room.

fermi

You seem to be getting there.

I had to start from scratch with mine when the rules changed, gradually making it more complicated until I found something that I liked and the forum would accept (the links made it worse).