What's the vBcode to do stars?
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What's the vBcode to do stars?
I want to add red stars next to the films that I list in the "2005 Rank Them when you see them list", and I don't know how to do this?
help... ?
help... ?
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Some sample vB code:
To make:
*
Use:
[color=red][b]*[/b][/color]
To make:
*
Use:
[color=red][b]*[/b][/color]
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oh... 
I mean a real star, not an asterik... oh well..
thanks.
I would have thought since you can do hearts: ♥ ♥ one could do stars...

I mean a real star, not an asterik... oh well..
thanks.
I would have thought since you can do hearts: ♥ ♥ one could do stars...
Last edited by Giles; 01-04-05 at 09:29 AM.
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Originally Posted by Giles
I would have thought since you can do hearts: ♥ ♥ one could do stars...
[color=red][b]★[/b][/color]
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a red star, not a red box... oh well.. thanks for the reply, but some reason I don't know why I can't seem to replicate the star on my computer.
on another website one could denote
:star:
and a red star would appear...
on another website one could denote
:star:
and a red star would appear...
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Maybe it's a character-set thing.
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No problem. You could always use an image instead of HTML code, if you wanted.
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Originally Posted by Giles
I would have thought since you can do hearts: ♥ ♥ one could do stars...
9733 = ★
9734 = ☆
XML encodings should support bigstar and starf as well, but these don't appear to work in any browser I tried.
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Originally Posted by Otto
But a couple of unicode characters work and should show up in IE and probably FireFox.
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[color=red][b]&#9733;[/b][/color]
[color=red][b]&#9733;[/b][/color]
The heart is, I assume, from the ISO "Suits" characters:
&hearts; ===> ♥
&diams; ===> ♦
&clubs; ===> ♣
&spades; ===> ♠







