No Toolbar at bottom of pages for 'Post a Reply"

[Annie Oakley]

Hi...I need help. At the bottom of any given thread page I have the 'Post a Reply' box and to the right of that are some 'Smilies' but there isn't that Toolbar that I see right now while writing this, which allows me to edit the post for bold, italic, underline etc. Nor do I have the Font color box. Should I have that Toolbar?
The only way I can edit my post is to preview it first and then edit it and then submit. It takes a long time and it can be frustrating. OR I have to hit the 'Quote' button on someone else's previous post to get the Toolbar, font colors etc.

Ravyrn was so kind as to explain to be how to insert stuff before and after a phrase to change the color but that takes a long time too lol.
Hope I explained this all okay and thanks for any help.

[mf_dolphin]

What you see at the bottom of the page is the "quick reply" feature. It's great of a simple reply but doesn't have all of the editing features of the normal reply. To use the full reply feature click on the Post Reply button which is above and to the right of the quick reply box

[WeatherGuesser]

If it were up to me, I'd eliminate the smileys (especially the 5 or 6 extra, animated ones) and add the Quote, Code, Bold, Italic and basic Color attributes. Not necessarily the whole color picker palette though.

But it's really quite simple to paste BBCode from NotePad or any other text editor utility and it doesn't need to take much time.

[Annie Oakley]

mf_dolphin! I feel like a dunce now ha ha! I NEVER even noticed that....
I see the 'postreply' button above and to the left of this 'post a reply' box, next to the 'newtopic' button.
Thanks!!

[mf_dolphin]

Glad to help Annie