Talk:Formatting codes

This helped me :D ---Darkus Relling of SDP 04:02, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Ampersand (&) vs. section mark (§)
Currently, the article seems to use these symbols (& and §) interchangeably. Can someone who's familiar with it confirm which one is correct, or if both can be used equivalently in-game? -- Orthotope 05:27, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I think the guys who created this (Pbfy0) confused the two symbols. It should be the section sign (§). - Asterick6 (talk) 20:55, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * You are correct, it should be the section sign. I just undid the changes of someone who changed the sections signs to ampersands, and changed the remaining ampersands to section signs as well. Hopefully whoever did that will leave it alone now. 83.87.133.123 16:34, 4 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I believe the reason some editors have made this mistake is because many bukkit servers run plugins that can change the "&" to "§" without the user even knowing, making it very easy to become confused. -- maxpowa 01:12, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

How do you get § sign?
I can't seem to paste it on to a sign... is there a keyboard shortcut?

It's only a key on the keyboards of people in Europe... I've tried pasting AND doing the keyboard shortcut but neither of them work in minecraft (they do work in word processor programs and other text things like search engines). Anyone know how we cam make this work?

I switched to a layout that has the section sign and can still not type it, nor paste it. 166.248.64.81 03:58, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Pasting it in works for me in Book & Quill, but not in Talk. PhilHibbs 22:28, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

There is a plugin/mod that replaces the selection sign (§) to (&).

You can type it by holding Alt, pressing number pad 2, pressing number pad 1, then releasing Alt. 12 Me 21 (talk) 19:17, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Adding Scoreboard name column to the color table
Since Scoreboard, textcolors now have official ingame names. (when you use /scoreboard teams option someteamname color and press TAB, you can see them) Maybe we should add it to the table like so?

217.123.123.177 19:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Since the table in the page was... griefed, I took the liberty to replace it with this one. Gotta be bold. Okay, nevermind - page reverted before I could save changes. I vote to use this table though.--186.47.176.212 00:32, 2 February 2013 (UTC) Ah I see someone removed the common name column and made Official Name, based on the color_names in Scoreboard but written like Color Names. That's even better than my idea. 217.123.123.177 20:29, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

color codes
Link titleThe color codes wont work at all for Minecraft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WHY!75.70.47.30 00:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No idea, use MCEdit, and if you want to use so many exclamation points, you should include some ones. Pokechu22 22:08, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

British spelling
At the moment, entering "Color codes" redirects to this page, while "Colour codes" (which is the British way of spelling "color") does not. I think a fix would be quite useful. 87.174.225.191 15:53, 2 April 2013 (UTC)Signature

Done. Colour codes --whizzer0 16:21, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

:)
Thanks, Minecraft Wiki makers. This really helps me in my mod that I have to edit my Book and Quill. I hope this page helps most people as much as it did me! I edited it so that they could realize that you could chat in color with &[number]! --24.124.116.62 22:54, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * That's not a vanilla Minecraft function. The ampersand (&) is on modified servers.  23:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Euyup good but hard

192.168.98.65 02:46, 12 April 2013 (UTC)   I need minecraft school

weird................
I somehow got to write in the error code writing but I can't do the color writing!

192.168.98.65 02:49, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Additional formatting codes beyond colors?
Hiya. I was wondering what the type of code used for the server.properties file is for formatting codes, as I'm trying to figure out how to input characters such as the em dash (—) and others into my multiplayer MOTD. Or, better yet, if you know how to do that specifically, even better. Thanks! --64.187.231.76 01:02, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Alt Code
When I use alt code in Minecraft, the numpad acts as arrow keys instead of numbers. I can use it outside Minecraft, but not in Minecraft. --13sparx13 10:57, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Make sure you have your NumLock turned on, otherwise it doesn't work (in a book and quill that is). C4an7 (talk) 17:09, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Section symbol support
Apparently, Mojang is slowly moving away from supporting § as a formatting symbol, as stated here by Dinnerbone: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-33145?focusedCommentId=111521&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-111521

Should we mention this in the article?

—Hartspoon (talk) 18:15, 15 December 2013 (UTC)