Control Codes

mIRC interprets control codes in text for Bold, Underline, Reverse, and Color and displays text in the specified format.

You can use the following key combinations to insert control codes in text:

Control+B for bold text
Control+I for italic text
Control+U for underlined text
Control+R for reverse text
Control+K for colored text
Control+O for plain text

Examples

To underline a word:

1.Type Control+U
2.Type in the word
3.Type Control+U again

Only the text that is enclosed by the start and end codes will be affected. You can use this method with all of the other control codes.

To color a word you can use Control+K which allows you to specify a color number:

1.Type Control+K
2.Type a number between 0 and 15
3.Type the word
4.Type Control+K again

If you want to change the background color of a word, you would need to type two numbers separated by a comma instead of just one number. The first number is the text color, the second number is the background color. The colors range from 0 to 15, and the indexes are:

0 white	8 yellow
1 black	9 lightgreen
2 blue	10 cyan
3 green	11 lightcyan
4 lightred	12 lightblue
5 brown	13 pink
6 purple	14 grey
7 orange	15 lightgrey

Control+K can pop up a color index dialog, depending on your setting in the Keys dialog.

If you want to enclose existing text in control codes, just select the text with your cursor, and then type the Control code. This will insert both starting and ending control codes around the text you selected.

You can enclose text in multiple control codes, so for example you could have a bold, underlined, and colored word.

You can use color 99 to indicate a transparent color.