User:Gradivus/Help:Signature

'Don't forget to link your signature to your User and Talk pages! by doing this :  YOUR SIGNATURE CODE  and  YOUR SIGNATURE CODE '

Basics
Almost all signatures are made using the HTML element  using the attribute "style". The style attribute has a number of CSS properties which combine together to produce a wide variety of possible signature forms. Many signatures use two or more  tags nested within each other: one to produce the box within which the links are contained, and one or more to change the style of the links contained within the box. The basic format used in the  element is:

Font colour
Property: color

You can use this property to specify a colour name as follows:

The same result can also be achieved much simpler with Colour as follows:

Colour names are limited to a list of recognised colour names which can be found here, however hexadecimal codes can also be input to yield any colour:

Font Size
Property: font-size

This property can be used with words like "large" or "x-small":

More control can be used by substituting a percentage for the size:

Pixel sizes may also be substituted: