Re: OE6 HowTo Highlight text to send?

You can do it with a SPAN tag indicating a background color.

The tag should use language similar to the following:

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND: yellow">You can do it with a SPAN tab indicating
a background color.</SPAN>

Just make sure the SPAN tag surrounds the text you wish highlighted in a HTML formatted message. You can see the specific HTML code by highlighting this reply, then press Ctrl+F2.
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"AlmostBob" <anonymous1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23IcudAteGHA.1260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
in html
style, background or bgcolor will do it for you
example
<body bgcolor="green">
<div bgcolor="blue"> doesnt this look crap </div>
blah bla bla <Span style="background:Yellow"> text </span> blah blah blah
<span style="background:pink">bla bla blah</span> as will <div
style="background:Yellow"> test as;ldj al;kjdsa </div> and <p
style="background:Yellow"> al;skdjasd;lkj asl;kj sad<p>

when sending html mail choose
View
Source Edit
to be able to edit the html directly
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"Flat Top27" <flat_top27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your reply .. but I was wanting something that would highlight
the page behind the text like a highlighter does on plain paper. Something
like this. I did this in Word and then pasted it in my reply. Is there a
way to do this in OE6? I know in order to 'see' what I did in here you
have to view in HTML. Not sure if news groups (like this one allow viewing
like that or not..... but guess I'll see. But if it isn't viewable,
'Something like this' is marked in yellow. The text is still black, but
shows up against a yellow background. The word 'this' below it is on a
green background with the text still black... Hope it shows up, but if not,
at least you will get some idea of what I'm trying to find out for her.

Thank you...

Flat_top27

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You must be using HTML. With that said, when the message is complete and
ready to send, use the left mouse key and highlight the word, or phrase,
from right to left and then change the color. The highlighted words will
change color. The recipient must be reading in HTML to see the color though.
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"Flat Top27" <flat_top27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My Sister asked if there was a way to highlight a word or a sentence a
> certain color (like using a highlight pen on regular paper) so that it
shows
> up when sent to the recipient. I can't find a way to do it in OE6.
Anyone
> have any ideas? I know you can do this in say, MS Word, and then cut
and
> paste the message into an email and it will remain highlighted (yellow
or
> whatever) when received. Is there some way of doing it in OE without
having
> to use two programs like Word or whatever?
>
> Thanks!
> flat_top27
>
>

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