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The basic 'code' for Sparkly Text is this:

Sparkly Text Goes Here

You need to save the sparkle gif to a site that allows remote loading or get permission from someone to use their URL. And Yes you do need to ask permission. Bandwidth theft (and that is what that is) is not appreciated and can get you into all different kinds of trouble (For Example, you can't see it any more, but you get the idea XD).


Alternately you can use http://www.glittergraphics.us.

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*Bonus*

Quick Inline-Stylesheets Guide (just what's useful for LJ, not all Stylesheets O.o)

In any HTML tag you can apply styles by adding style="" to the tag. Alternately, the tag exists for the sole purpose of applying stylesheets, so if what you want to add styles to isn't already in a tag of some kind, you can use span.

Everything you want to apply to it goes in the style attribute, separated by semi-colons.

I.E. When I "marry" a Camper, I use the code:

Stuff you can use on LJ:

Changing the Font = font-family: FONT;

FONT can be either a font name like Times or Arial (but it won't work if the person viewing it doesn't have that font) or a generic font name like serif (the default font on most computer, i.e. Times), sans-serif (the default font for LJ and the Wiki, i.e. Arial, Helvetica, Verdana), or monospace (fixed with fonts Like This, i.e. Courier)


Make text Italic = font-style: italic;

Make text Bold = font-weight: bold;

Use Small Caps = font-variant: small-caps;

• In the above three examples, if it was already bold, italic, or in small caps and you want to make it normal, put normal after the colon (i.e. font-weight: normal;)

Change the Font Size = font-size: SIZE;

SIZE can be xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, or xx-large. The default size for LJ is x-small.


Add a Background Color = background-color: COLOR;

COLOR, of course, is the color you want it (colors are discussed below), or transparent if you don't want that particular area to have one (mostly useful on webpages).

Add a Background Image = background-image: url(URL).

URL is the image you want to use. This is how sparkles are done, by linking to an animated sparkles gif with a transparent background as the background for a block of text.


Have "Decorated" Text = text-decoration: DECORATION;

DECORATION can be none (good for making non-underlined links), underline, overline (line above the text), or line-through (struck out text). You can use more than one at a time, (i.e text-decoration: overline underline; makes the text have a line above and below it).


Align the text = text-align: ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT can be left, right, or center.

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===Color

Color in HTML and Stylsheets can be done in two ways.

One is by Hex codes. ←From an HTML Tutorial I made some 5-6 years ago.

The other is using keywords taken from the Windows VGA palette:

aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.

In Stylsheets you have a third option to use the RGB codes themselves, by using rgb(x,x,x) (i.e. color: rgb(255,0,0); for red text).


Hope all that helps! ^_^