Help:Customizing your signature

This page is to help you customize your signature! It is important when doing so to realise that other users will often need to access your talk page and perhaps your user page or contributions. Therefore ensure that these links are obvious.

Reference

 * Many of these snippets use common HTML elements, the most common of which is  .  Visit the HTML section at w3schools.com:HTML reference.
 * Much of the flashy, custom effects are done using CSS. For a complete CSS reference, vist the CSS section at w3schools.com:CSS reference

Snippets
To change font color place the tags (With the "" filled in by the color) and at the end to modify this you may put tags on it. There are some colors that also are represented by numbers. Lists of those colors are found here and here.

If you try to make a color that doesn't exist you get the normal link color:


 * example

the tags and (along with close tags and) will give:
 * sub
 * sup
 * sup-sub

which can be modifed by using the tags Example (talk) to produce:


 * Example (talk)

To make text small without making it go low or high use the tags and


 * small

To make text bold, use and 


 * bold

To underline text, use the tags and


 * Underlined

To cross out text, use the tags and


 * crossed out

To change the font use tags and with the font type in the "":


 * Tahoma

To change background color use the tags  and with the color after the background: like so gold background to produce:
 * gold background

It is posible to use font color changes at the same time as background. When doing this, it is necessary to use a for each font change:
 *  Black background, white words

To make borders, use and using the shown text in the :" like:
 * 1px solid blue
 * 3px solid green
 * 1px dashed goldenrod

The tags to produce the above effect are: To limit which edges are bordered, break down the style tags:
 * 1px solid blue
 * 3px solid green
 * 1px dashed goldenrod
 * none solid none solid

To make text blink, say Blinking text, which would give this:
 * Blinking text