No you can't. Style tags are stripped from the profile.

We can use HTML in our profiles? What about CSS? That would be really cool to add a background to it.

I threw a few images in but I don't believe you can edit the background.

Yes you can - You have to play with it a little but yes it is possible.

From basic to advanced HTML coding, this can be used to create and customize your Answerbag profile. Many other users have used HMTL coding for their profile, and so have I as well. All you have to do is to simple paste the code that is ready and set. Nothing else is necessary.

Following is the basic HTML I used in my profile page (see http://www.answerbag.com/profile/?id=174918 - Put it in another window, so you can switch back and forth to see how it works.) I hope the HTML tags show up correctly, below. I used <div style="margin: 0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; color: #005500; background-color: #f0fff0;">. Don't forget to put a close div ("</div>") at the end of the page. This changed my background color to the light green, my font to one of the four listed (depending on what's on your computer), changed the font size to 125% of the normal size and the font color to a dark green. (for what hex-code to use for what color, see http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html for a good list - Click on the colors you want.) I tried to add a background image, and couldn't. I'm not sure if I did something wrong or not. Either way, it works for me. PLEASE use a light background and dark font color. DO NOT use BLUE on BLACK, or YELLOW on RED, or something like that. It makes it extremely hard to read. To post a picture, it has to exist on the web. If you have a blog or some site to which you've uploaded pictures, you can add "<img border="solid 1px #006600" src="http://www.orangefrogproductions.com/images/owner/20071216_Bill_100_0064_crp+shk_300h.jpg" alt="Bill" width="191" height="300" />". (This what I used... It ats a dark green 1 px solid border around my pic, pulled the picture from my website, gave it my name (when you place your cursor on my picture, it will show "Bill" in the tool-tip), and then defines the size of the picture. This is the ACTUAL size. I'm not sure if you need that or not, but if you know it, put it in.) To position my pic, I used <div style="float: left; padding: 0 .3em .5em .0; margin: 0;"><img [see above paragraph for image info] /></div> IMMEDIATELY following the main div that opens the page. This tells the browser to place my picture on the left side, and pad around it, starting at the top to the right, 0 (NO PADDING - TOP of pic), .3em (30% of the normal font size - right side of pic), .5em (50% of the normal font size - BOTTOM of pic, and 0 (NO padding - LEFT side of pic). The padding keeps the wording on my page from "bumping into" the picture. For the "headings", I used <div style="font-size:1.50em;font-weight:bold;">About me</div>. This made my heading font size 150% of the normal font for the page, and bolded it. For normal bolding, I used the <b> to start it and </b> to close it. Any links are the FULL link: http://www. example .com/whatever ... Just pull up the page in another instance of the browser and copy from the URL bar at the top of the page. (This is safest, because sometimes, the links on a page don't have the complete HTML and sometimes are scripted.) NOTE: ANY PUNCTUATION BEFORE OR FOLLOWING A LINK MUST BE SET OFF BY A SPACE. I've found that AB "sucks" the punctuation into the link and it doesn't work, if you don't. For specific AB links - specific answers to questions, etc., like those on the lower half of my profile page, use the PERMALINK at the top of the answer. RIGHT click with your cursor on it, selected COPY SHORTCUT, then switch back to your profile edit area, place the cursor where you want to place it, and PASTE it (CONTROL-V).