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Looking forward to keeping on learning, [[User:KF|<KF>]] 17:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

:The whole point of this page is to help the ones who do not know much about computing. If it's too technical, feel free to edit to make it more clear — even if it needs to get to the level of "click here" complete with screenshots {{unicode|[[☺]]}}.

:"raw signatures" is the name of the preference option. "raw" here means the code is not interpreted, escaped or formatted by the software (you have to do all the escaping and formatting yourself).

:I hope I made myself clear.

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== hmm...What did I do?? ==

I coded my new signature, and I tried fixing it according to this article, but it is still not working...I probably missed something, but I can't find it..hmmm...Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated. <i><fontspan facestyle="font-family:arial, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b>Ø</b></fontspan></i> [[User:Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>tVaughn05</i></b></ispan>]]</font> ^{[[User talk:Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>talk</i></b></ispan>]]</font>}_{[[Special:Contributions/Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>contribs</i></b><i/span>]]}</font><<That is what I want it to look like =) <br><code><nowiki><i><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#007700"><b>Ø</b></font></i> [[User:Tvaughn05|<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="#007700"><b><i>tVaughn05</bi></ib>]]</font> ^{[[User talk:Tvaughn05|<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="#007700"><b><i>talk</bi></ib>]]</font>}_{[[Special:Contributions/Tvaughn05|<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="#007700"><b><i>contribs</b><i>]]}</font></codenowiki></nowikicode>

You have overlapping tags. Use:

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<code><nowiki><i><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#007700"><b>Ø</b></font></i> [[User:Tvaughn05|<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="#007700"><b><i>tVaughn05</i></b></font>]] ^{[[User talk:Tvaughn05|<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="#007700"><b><i>talk</i></b></font>]]}_{[[Special:Contributions/Tvaughn05|<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="#007700"><b><i>contribs</i></b></font>]]}</nowiki></code>

I think that works. Thank you! I am going to try the span style thingy that mark_sweep suggested later tonight. I am still new to this code =). Thanks again! <i><fontspan facestyle="font-family:arial, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b>Ø</b></fontspan></i> [[User:Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>tVaughn05</i></b></fontspan>]] ^{[[User talk:Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>talk</i></b></fontspan>]]}_{[[Special:Contributions/Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>contribs</i></b></fontspan>]]} 00:29, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

*Is there any way that I can change the way that the time and date appear? - <i><fontspan facestyle="font-family:arial, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b>Ø</b></fontspan></i> [[User:Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>tVaughn05</i></b></fontspan>]] ^{[[User talk:Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>talk</i></b></fontspan>]]}_{[[Special:Contributions/Tvaughn05|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Tahoma, helvetica"; color=":#007700;"><b><i>contribs</i></b></fontspan>]]} 02:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

== Problem with link colours ==

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So, does anyone know why isn't it working for me? --<span style="font-family:monospace"> <span style="color:#008800">[[User:Nick R|Nick R]]</span>^{[[User talk:Nick R|Talk]]}</span> 19:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

:This is exactly one of the situations where the "if possible" clause acts (sorry for the bogus example). The link is converted to an <ttsamp>a</ttsamp> element, which has a fixed colour. So, you have to change the colour ''inside'' the link. --[[User:CesarB|cesarb]] 20:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

::Thanks! --<span style="font-family:monospace">[[User:Nick R|<span style="color:#008800">Nick R</span>]]^{[[User talk:Nick R|Talk]]}</span> 22:35, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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I fixed the colour of my signature here, so you can see it. And added “monospace” to it here.<br>

--[[User:RCT Locomotion Wikipedia|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:monospace"; color=":#0047AB;"><big>RCT</big> <small>Loco</small> Wiki</fontspan>]] | [[User talk:RCT Locomotion Wikipedia|Talk]] 20:42, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

== i just cant get it to work. ==

ive been trying for 2 hours now to get my sig to work. i want it to look like this <span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: larger">[[User:(chubbstar)|<fontspan style="border: solid 2px orange; background-color: #991199"; color=:white;">(chubbstar)]]</span>]]</fontspan> <sup><small> — <font color="#FF4F00">[[user_talk:(chubbstar)|talk]]</font>span | <font colorstyle="color:#FF4F00;">talk</span>]] | [[Special:contributions/(chubbstar)|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">contrib]]</fontspan>]] | <fontspan colorstyle="color:#CD00CD;"> 09:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC) </fontspan></supsmall></smallsup> .... which it does, but only when i copy and paste it. i want the simplicity of just being able to hit the "Sign your name" thing below. ive rearranged it millions of different ways according to the [[Wikipedia:How to fix your signature]] but to no avail.

i've come up with this:<br>

:<code><nowiki><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: larger">[[User:(chubbstar)|<font style="border: solid 2px orange; background-color: #991199" color=white>(chubbstar)]]</spanfont>]]</fontspan> ^{<small> — <font color="#FF4F00">[[user_talk:(chubbstar)|talk]]</font> | <font color="#FF4F00">[[Special:contributions/(chubbstar)|contrib]]</font> | <font color="#CD00CD"> ~~~~~ </font>}</small></nowiki></code></br>

any help that anyone could offer would save me a lot of frustration.... thanks.

:Have you noticed how long your signature is in code mode? Could you consider dropping the colors in it? What about something like:<br>

::<code><nowiki><tt>{{mono|'''[[User:(chubbstar)|(chubbstar)]]</tt>}} ^{— [[user_talk:(chubbstar)|talk]] | [[Special:contributions/(chubbstar)|contrib]] | ~~~~~}</nowiki></code></br>

:which should give something like: <tt>{{mono|'''[[User:(chubbstar)|(chubbstar)]]</tt>'''}} ^{— [[user_talk:(chubbstar)|talk]] | [[Special:contributions/(chubbstar)|contrib]] | 16:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)}

:-- [[User:Nae'blis|nae'blis]] <i>_{[[User_talk:Nae'blis|(talk)]]}</i> 16:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

::Fixed after a discussion on [[User talk:ais523]] and [[User talk:(chubbstar)]]. --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 16:09, 2 October 2006 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

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== my new sig ==

if you have any suggestions for modifications, please tell me on my talk page. [[User:Megalodon99|<font facespan style= "font-family:tahoma;"><fontspan style = "background:magenta;"><fontspan colorstyle="color:gainsboro;"><b>Mega</b></fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:ghostwhite;"><b>lodon</b></fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:lavender;"><b>99</b></fontspan></fontspan></fontspan>]] [[User Talk:Megalodon99|_{<font colorstyle="color:tomato;"><font facespan style= "font-family:tahoma;"><span style="border:1px solid #000;padding:1px;">(<u>Talk</u>)</span></font></fontspan>}]] 02:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

== Signature {[[user : hopiakuta]]} ==

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<nowiki><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#dc1400">F</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#dc6400">l</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#dcb400">o</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#b4dc00">a</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#64dc00">t</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#14dc00">e</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#00dc3c">r</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#0050dc">F</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#0000dc">l</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#5000dc">u</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#a000dc">s</span><span style="font-family: papyrus" color:"#dc00c8">s</span></nowiki>

It should look like this: [[User:Floaterfluss|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#dc1400;">F</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#dc6400;">l</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#dcb400;">o</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#b4dc00;">a</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#64dc00;">t</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#14dc00;">e</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#00dc3c;">r</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#0050dc;">F</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#0000dc;">l</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#5000dc;">u</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#a000dc;">s</fontspan><fontspan facestyle="font-family:papyrus; color=":#dc00c8;">s</fontspan>]]

Can you help me out? --Floaterfluss

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Wait, nevermind. I got it. [[User:FloaterFluss|<span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dc1400">F</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dc6400">l</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dcb400">o</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#b4dc00">a</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#64dc00">t</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#14dc00">e</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#00dc3c">r</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#0050dc">F</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#0000dc">l</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#5000dc">u</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#a000dc">s</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dc00c8">s</span>]] ^{[[User talk:Floaterfluss|<span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dc1400">(</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dc5000">t</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dc8c00">a</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#dcc800">l</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#b4dc00">k</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Floaterfluss|<span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#78dc00">)</span> <span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#3cdc00">(</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#00dc00">c</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#00dc3c">o</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#00dc78">n</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#00dcb4">t</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#00c8dc">r</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#008cdc">i</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#0050dc">b</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#0014dc">s</span><span style="font-family: papyrus; color:#2800dc">)</span>]]}

:Dear gods, please don't do that. Your signature is '''20''' lines long on my edit screen. If you must have a complex signature, please consider something like:

::<span style="font-family: papyrus">[[User:Floaterfluss|FloaterFluss]] ^{[[User talk:Floaterfluss|(talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Floaterfluss|(contribs)]]}</span>

:Multicolored text is extremely hard to read, code-heavy, and lends undue weight to your signature compared to your comment or other people's comments. At the very least, your current signature contains a redlink to [[User:FloaterFluss]] (your name is not [[CamelCase]]). -- ''[[User:Nae'blis|nae]]'[[User_talk:Nae'blis|blis]]'' 15:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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why won't this sig work? i tryed everything!!!

[[user:Xiaden|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#0f0fff;">Xiade</fontspan>]][[User_talk:Xiaden|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#ff0f0f;">n</fontspan>]] 16:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

:It looks like it's working to me; if you say what's wrong with it, I may be able to help. (Is it that you're using '0f' in colour codes? That looks virtually the same as '00', so it may not be what you intend.) --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 16:15, 5 December 2006 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

nevermind, it's a bug... it doesn't work when i post it on my talk page.

:Pages can't link to themselves; your talkpage link therefore becomes bolded text when placed on your own talkpage. --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 17:13, 8 December 2006 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

OooOhhhyhheeaa... srry, nd thanks.[[user:Xiaden|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#0f0fff;">Xiade</fontspan>]][[User_talk:Xiaden|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#ff0f0f;">n</fontspan>]] 18:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

==Too long?==

Is this an ok signature - I mean i know it's on the longer side, but I can't really think of any way to make it shorter (unrelated:that rainbow code up there should be put in some kinda wikipedia hall of fame) --<fontspan style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">Daniel()Folsom</fontspan> [[User talk:Danielfolsom|^T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Danielfolsom|_C]]|[[User:Danielfolsom|^U]] 06:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:I can think of a way to make it 2 bytes shorter. You can remove the whitespace in your CSS just before the <code>font-size</code>, and you can omit the redundant semicolon at the end. It becomes: <code><nowiki><font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:15px">Daniel()Folsom</font> [[User talk:Danielfolsom|^T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Danielfolsom|_C]]|[[User:Danielfolsom|^U]]</nowiki></code>. You should also use <code><nowiki><span></nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code>, since you are using CSS to change the font, instead of the legacy <code>font</code> element's attributes. --[[User:CesarB|cesarb]] 00:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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Mine's supposed to look like this:<br />

<fontspan colorstyle="color:Navy;">_~~</fontspan>[[User:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:SaddleBrown;">Neo</fontspan>]] [[User talk:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:Navy;">2.3</fontspan>]] [[User:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:SaddleBrown;">Hylan</fontspan>]]<br />

But never does.. could someone fix it for me please? <fontspan colorstyle="color:Navy;">_~~</fontspan>[[User:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:SaddleBrown;">Neo</fontspan>]] [[User talk:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:Navy;">2.3</fontspan>]] [[User:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:SaddleBrown;">Hylan</fontspan>]] 11:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

:You've forgotten to turn "Use raw signature" on in your preferences. --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 10:12, 15 May 2007 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

:: Thanks, I think I got it working now. <fontspan colorstyle="color:Navy;">_~~</fontspan>[[User:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:SaddleBrown;">Neo</fontspan>]] [[User talk:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:Navy;">2.3</fontspan>]] [[User:Neo 2.3 Hylan|<fontspan colorstyle="color:SaddleBrown;">Hylan</fontspan>]] 11:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

== HTML Error? ==

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I'm trying to make my sig look like this:

'''<span style="background:Black;color:White">&nbsp;[[User:Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle="color:White;">But</fontspan>]]|[[User talk:Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle="color:White;">seriously</fontspan>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle="color:White;">folks</fontspan>]]&nbsp;</span>'''

but I can't get it to work. It's giving me a HTML error. I think I might be over by a few characters as well, and I don't know how to shorten it. (Damn my long user name!) Any advice would be appreciated. --[[User:Butseriouslyfolks|Butseriouslyfolks]] 06:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

:The HTML looks correct. The problem may be that its 271-character length is causing the end of the signature to be cut off and causing an error. Here's a not-quite-identical version (copy the code from the edit page):

'''<span style='background:#000'>&nbsp;[[User:Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle='"color:#FFF'FFFFFF;">But|</fontspan>]][[User talk:Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle='"color:#FFF'FFFFFF;">seriously|</fontspan>]][[Special:Contributions/Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle='"color:#FFF'FFFFFF;">folks</fontspan>]]&nbsp;</span>'''

:This comes to 255 characters exactly, if I've counted correctly. (The only difference to how it appears is that in your version the vertical bars are unliked, whereas in mine they're inside the links to their left.) Dropping the contribs link is probably the easiest way to get a dramatic reduction, though. --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 16:03, 29 June 2007 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

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Thanks, but that version doesn't show the text. Is #FFF white or black? --[[User:Butseriouslyfolks|Butseriouslyfolks]] 06:38, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

:I found a solution myself -- check out my fix! --'''<span style="background:Black;color:White">&nbsp;[[User:Bsf|<fontspan colorstyle="color:White;">But</fontspan>]]|[[User talk:Bsf|<fontspan colorstyle="color:White;">seriously</fontspan>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Butseriouslyfolks|<fontspan colorstyle="color:White;">folks</fontspan>]]&nbsp;</span>''' 05:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

:<nowiki>#</nowiki>FFF is white (#000 is black). --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 09:03, 2 July 2007 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

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Dunno if I'll find out how to do this by the time someone comments but anyway...I want to change the font colour of my signature to #ff66cc with maybe the word 'prod' in a #9966FF superscript as an alternative to 'talk'. I've tried everything to try and change my signature but it keeps coming up with the coding I use whenever I try it out in the sandbox. Any would help be appreciated! :) [[User:Londonsista|Londonsista]] ([[User talk:Londonsista|talk]]) 05:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

::No need for any help, perserverance managed in the end! Might change the colour of the pink though, might be a bit too 'bright'! [[User:Londonsista|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#ff66cc">[[User:Londonsista|~ londonsista]]</fontspan>]] | <font color="#9966ff">[[User talk:Londonsista|<span style="color:#9966ff">Prod]]</fontspan>]] 05:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

== Help with signature ==

I'm trying to make a sig for my first time and I'm having a little bit of trouble. If you go look at [[User:Icestorm815/sandbox]], I want my sig to look like the first line, but when I try and put it in as a raw signature, I keep getting an html error. Help would be greatly appreciated! [[User:Icestorm815|Icestorm815]] ([[User talk:Icestorm815|talk]]) 21:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

:Nevermind, it's all good! <span style="font-family: Palatino;"> [[User:Icestorm815|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#151B54;">'''Icestorm815'''</fontspan>]] • [[User_talk:Icestorm815|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#C16C16;">'''Talk'''</fontspan>]]</span> 02:40, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

== removing "external" link arrow ==

Currently my signature (&nbsp;~&nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]}</small>) has a link to create a new section on my talk page. I'd like to remove the extra arrow that shows it is a hard link with the following div class: <code><nowiki><div class="plainlinks"></div></nowiki></code> to make <code><nowiki>&amp;nbsp;~&amp;nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]]<div class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]</div>}</small></nowiki></code> I assume this would work (&nbsp;~&nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}</small>/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]]<div class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]</div>}</small>), but it makes my signature too long. Is there another way to achieve this with less code?&nbsp;~&nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]}</small> 18:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

:Actually, that doesn't work... the div tag creates line breaks... hmm let me try this: <code><nowiki><div class="plainlinks">&amp;nbsp;~&amp;nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]}</small></div></nowiki></code> <div class="plainlinks">&nbsp;~&nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]}</small></div>... At least that removes the break from inside the sig... but now there is a newline just before every use of the sig... Anyone have any ideas?&nbsp;~&nbsp;[[User:Psantora|Paul]]<small>^{[[Special:Contributions/Psantora|C]]}/_{[[User talk:Psantora|T]][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Psantora&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new +]}</small> 18:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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== Help please? ==

So the code I have is: <nowiki><font color="green" font face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Stepshep|§tepshep]]</font>{{•}}<font color="green">[[User talk:Stepshep|¡Talk to me!]]</font></nowiki>

Which makes: <font color="green" font face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Stepshep|§tepshep]]</font>{{•}}<font color="green">[[User talk:Stepshep|¡Talk to me!]]</font>

But when I put it in the four tildes I get: [[User:Stepshep|&lt;font color=&quot;green&quot; font face=&quot;Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;&#91;&#91;User:Stepshep&#124;§tepshep&#93;&#93;&lt;/font&gt;&#123;&#123;•}}&lt;font color=&quot;green&quot;&gt;&#91;&#91;User talk:Stepshep&#124;¡Talk to me!&#93;&#93;&lt;/font&gt;]] ([[User talk:Stepshep|talk]]) 19:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC) <br>

When I try to set it to a raw sig, I get the red error.

Any help? Thanks. [[User:Stepshep|<fontspan colorstyle="color:green"; font face="-family:Comic Sans MS;">[[User:Stepshep|§tepshep]]</fontspan>]]{{•}}<font color="green">[[User talk:Stepshep|<span style="color:green;">¡Talk to me!]]</fontspan>]]

::Got it... <font color="green" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Stepshep|§tepshep]]</font> • <font color="green">[[User talk:Stepshep|¡Talk to me!]]</font> 20:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

::Got it... [[User:Stepshep|<fontspan colorstyle="color:green"; face="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">[[User:Stepshep|§tepshep]]</fontspan> ]]{{•}}[[User talk:Stepshep|<fontspan colorstyle="color:green;">[[User talk:Stepshep|¡Talk to me!]]</fontspan>]] 20:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

== HTML ==

<s>....

Man this is annoying. Im trying to make my signature look like this:</s>

<s>[[User:Royalmate1|'''<fontspan colorstyle="color:blue;">Royal</fontspan>''']][[User talk:Royalmate1|'''<fontspan colorstyle="color:orange;">Mate1</fontspan>''']]</s>

<s>But I keep getting HTML errors! Not even pasting it works... wtf? Help ASAP please!</s>

<s>By the way this is the code:</s>

<s><nowiki>[[User:Royalmate1|'''<font color=blue>Royal</font>''']][[User talk:Royalmate1|'''<font color=orange>Mate1</font>''']]

</nowiki></s>

<s>Without the nowiki thing if your looking under the edit. Thanks to anyone who helps out -

[[User:Royalmate1|Royalmate1]] <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment was added at 01:50, 27 July 2008</small><!--Template:Undated--> (UTC)</s>

{{pre2|nowiki|'''[[User:Royalmate1|<span style="color:blue">Royal</span>]][[User talk:Royalmate1|<span style="color:orange">Mate1</span>]]'''}}

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== This article ==

Isn't detailed enough. What about people who want to customize their sigs but aren't HTML savvy? Especially people who want to add background color, such as I. I want to customize a sig for a user like this:<span style="background:black">[[User:A20anna|<span style="color:#F39">Happy Editing!</span>]] [[User talk:A20anna|<span style="color:#FCC">Love, Anna</span>]]</span>

and the code for it is this:<nowiki><span style="background:black">[[User:A20anna|<span style="color:#F39">Happy Editing!</span>]] [[User talk:A20anna|<span style="color:#FCC">Love, Anna</span>]]

</nowiki>

But I get an Invalid raw signature message when I test it. What am I doing wrong? --<fontspan facestyle="font-family:comic sans;">[[User:Crackthewhip775|<span style="color:#C66">Wh</span><span style="color:#600">ip</span> <span style="color:#C33">it</span><span style="color:#900">!</span>]] [[User talk:Crackthewhip775|^{Now whip it good!}]]</fontspan> 04:41, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

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Excuse me, I posted my last comment '''''10 days ago!''''' I said I wanted "help or insight". I'm sorry but I'm not one who tries to hang around, but I expect to get a reply this time.--[[User:The Master of Mayhem|The Master of Mayhem]] ([[User talk:The Master of Mayhem|talk]]) 16:48, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

:It's <ttsamp>&amp;#93;</ttsamp>. Sorry to make you wait. — [[User:Bility|Bility]] ([[User talk:Bility|talk]]) 17:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

::Too little, too late unfortunately.--[[User:The Master of Mayhem|<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">The Master of Mayhem</fontspan>]] [[User talk:The Master of Mayhem|<fontspan colorstyle="color:grey;">Storm 2 charm</fontspan>]] [[Special:Contributions/The Master of Mayhem|<fontspan colorstyle="color:orange;">Every Rose Has Its Storm!</fontspan>]] 17:58, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

== A signature suggestion ==

On the off-chance that people will find this useful, I thought I'd post this here. If you've got significant amounts of HTML or CSS formatting in your signature that you use mainly to allow yourself to spot your signature easily, check out my [[User:HorsePunchKid#A signature suggestion|signature suggestion]]. For example, when I see this page, my signature will show up with a bright green background and border, but you do not have to suffer from my color choices. <ttsamp>:)</ttsamp> <span class="user-sig user-horsepunchkid">&mdash;[[User:HorsePunchKid|<span style="font-family:monospace;font-variant:small-caps;cursor:crosshair;white-space:nowrap;">HorsePunchKid</span>]]→[[User talk:HorsePunchKid|<span style="color:#070;cursor:help;" title="Kame-san says: Talk to me!">&#x9F9C;</span>]]</span> 02:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

:: Do you get the time to come out automatically? Or do you calculate it manually. If automatically, how is it done? [[User:RichardKatz#A RichardKatz |RichardKatz]]. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 06:25, 9 January 2012 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->