[dp0622]

Call Bill Gates

[moovova]

The obligatory...”Are you logged in?”.

[Pollard]

The bigger question is; why would you want to subject everyone to seeing a nasty sherbert/sherbet green background on all your posts?

https://www.colorhexa.com/99d78b

[Theophilus]

id be very surprised if you could use css of fr. I used to use the span html tag to do something similar.

[TheZMan]

I’m not familiar with it, but you’ve already figured out “selectors” from glancing at their instructions. If you combine that logic with “conditionals” and “iterations”, you might can build up a list of all posting blocks, and then spit out a color when the posting block matches your name. Assuming that’s possible, it’ll take a bit of finagling.

[Dan in Wichita]

This is where I go for all questions related to HTML or CSS:

https://www.w3schools.com/

[Red Badger]

So, you’re asking for a ‘Light Green’ New Deal?....................

[Delta 21]

Put it in a frame.

[central_va]

This does NOT work for some reason:

< html>

< head>

< style>

body {background-color:grey;}

< /style>

< /head>

< body>

< p>test test test background

< /body>

< /html>

[9422WMR]

Questions? Yea I’ve got questions! Why can’t I stay logged on to FR? That new security feature logs me out every time I close the viewer.no matter what level of security I choose I’m randomly logged off FR, while at home, or traveling. It would be nice not to have to log back in each time I open Safari to read FR. luckily my face recognition saves my username and password, but C’mon man! I’m wasting time logging in when I could be reading great FR responses!
iPhone XR
Safari explorer.

[Hot Tabasco]

You’re an old timer here, you should remember all the chaos those nasty italians used to create here.....

[Deaf Smith]

Start by learning how to create a About Page.

You've had 22 years to play with that.

[BipolarBob]

So, you’re asking us to green light your project? Sure, go ahead. Knock yourself out.

[CodeToad]

The ping function works. No need to colorize things.

[deport]

Try this for a starter

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938739/posts

[fluorescence]

I have written a short script demonstrating a way to do it using JavaScript. If you have the Tampermonkey extension installed in your browser, visiting the following link should bring up a message asking if you wish to add the script: https://gitgud.io/frusertool/fr-userscript/-/raw/master/frhighlighter.user.js
I tried to paste it here but the formatting was too much of a hassle.

[Rebelbase]

I thought the Style tab was disabled on FR?

[minnesota_bound]

W3 Schools - more links to left side.
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

[daniel1212]

How to I make CSS to make the background of my replies light green?

You could place them in a table, in which you use a template with two rows, one for the text you are replying to and another for your reply, and choose the background, fonts, etc for each.

To save typing, you could do this by using Firefox Quantum and the bbcodewebex/ extension to create a custom codes (or use Firefox ESR legacy and BBCodeXtra, which I use for posting on FR), or see https://cynwoody.appspot.com/fr_posting_form_enhancer.html (Free Republic Posting Form Enhancer) which provides table codes, etc. or maybe the AutoFill Forms (WebExtension) or another autotext app that will enable you to paste the table codes.

Or by creating a html document with tables on a word processor, in which you choose the background color, and then loading that in Firefox. Then write your replies in the doc in the word processor, save it and go to your Firefox browser, refresh the page, and select (highlight) the whole table and R. click and choose View selected text, and copy and paste that.

The latter is what I used to create this reply, using Apache Open Office.