A little help for the technically challenged?

[polmaven]

How does one go about putting parts of a post within a gray box?

[Greyhound]

1. [ div class = "excerpt" ] text text text [ /div ]. without the spaces. n/t

[polmaven]

6. OK...I'll give it a try....

How'd it work?

Yaaay! Thanks everyone!

[dgibby]

2. I'd like to help, but I'm still learning to cut and paste.

[billyoc]

3. HTML lookup table-> [div class="excerpt"]Like this.[/div]

Like this.

[unblock]

4. hmm:

ah, in case you forget, it's in the "html lookup table" under "blockquotes"

[Mabus]

5. Cut and paste

(div class="excerpt")Text you want in the box (/div)

replace parentheses with brackets.

edited to remove unintentional smilie.

[The Straight Story]

7. Thanks for asking that, forgot myself

comes in handy!