Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Liza wants to solve a problem-How to remove white background strips from your blog.

You know how you’ll sometimes lift material from an email and when it comes over to the blog, if you have a colored background, it has this god awful white strip behind the letters making your blog look like a kidnap ransom letter.

I HAVE KIDNAPPED YOUR DOG. SHE IS INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. I'LL PAY YOU $20 TO TAKE HER BACK

Here’s the fastest way I’ve found to fix it.
Change to HTML (Blogger/blogspot) or TEXT (Wordpress)
Copy All to empty Word doc.
(Don't try to isolate the problem, just Ctrl A and copy the whole blog)


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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I HAVE KIDNAPPED YOUR DOG. SHE IS INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. I'LL PAY YOU $20 TO TAKE HER BACK</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;"><br /></span></div>….


I know. Looks a bit intimidating, but you don't have to read it, just follow these simple instructions:

1) Pull up the find & replace function in Word.

2)Type in the find box: background-color: white

3) Put empty space bar click in the replace box  

4) Replace all

5) Then modify the find box to read: background: white

6) Hit Replace all

(For some reason, sometimes both 'background-color' and 'background' are used, so it's better to attempt to delete both.)


Then copy the HTML back to web page’s HTML or TEXT page

Change back to the View page, hit preview and the white strips should be gone and you can actually read the words: 


I HAVE KIDNAPPED YOUR DOG. SHE IS INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. I'LL PAY YOU $20 TO TAKE HER BACK

Congratulations! You're getting $20!
and your dog back.





3 comments:

  1. That's not funny in the least, Jess, your dog

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  2. Why does Jess want $20? I mean, you walk everyday!! I'm glad to know how to do this. Does it not show up in the preview or do people just post without preview?

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  3. No the dognapper is willing to pay me to take Jess back because she wants to to on hikes everyday.
    Yes the white background will show up in preview. But this is how you fix the problem once you see you have a problem.

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