:-) thanks. The colors (background & font) come as a default in your own browser. You can change them in your preferences. Generally, these are over-ridden if you insert appropriate commands - same idea as end-of-line 'br' or italic 'i'. You use a 'font'. With the greater than/less than characters. 'font color = "red"' and at the end '/font' turns it off. That's very standard stuff & you can easily get carried away with flashing text & different fonts. See the html threads for lots of examples.

It was supposed to be dark red font on a very pale (nearly white) red background. Can't imagine why it woould come out different. Conceivably your IE interprets colors differently from my Netscape but that doesn't seem right.

I don't see how the embed-tune command could have possibly "crashed a member's computer" but I am sorry if someone did have some problem. Simple HTML is just supposed to be simple html - it doesn't actually do anything. I'd be very interested to know what happened. The actual tune was not in my post, just a reference to the one already in the Database and anyone who can use that would hear it here. In theory it should only have Worked, Not worked, or politely asked if you wanted to download the plug-in for your browser.

Anyway,