Hello there I noticed on a friends myspace profile that she managed to get a picture in place of her name for example if you write Briggzy™ it’ll come up with a TM right after my name. But my friend’s profile has her name replaced by an actual picture. How to do that?
This is a pretty tricky question, actually, and I spent a lot of time exploring different profiles and trying to reverse engineer / figure out exactly what was going on with these MySpace profiles. Then I figured out the secret…
When you’re editing your MySpace profile, on the Name section, there’s a little box called “Display Name”, like this:
Try to add any sort of HTML like <b>Dave</b> and it’s stripped away and won’t work at all. But… and here’s the secret… if you realize that the MySpace system is going to convert what you type into what would be displayed to a user as part of saving your changes, you can indeed get just that effect by using < instead of < and > instead of > in your display name.
This means that if I wanted to have my name in bold, I’d need to type in exactly:
It’s ugly, yeah, but it works. This also means that you can change the color of your name by using the font tag, like this:
Instead of “red” you could use “blue”, “yellow”, “green”, about twenty different color names. Cool, eh?
Unfortunately, the MySpace folk don’t give you very much space in that box, only 50 characters. This is where it’s tricky to use a graphic, because the basic code for the graphic inclusion is going to look like this:
Do the counting and you’ll see that there are only 34 characters left, and seven of them are going to have to be “http://”, so there are really only 27 characters left for the full URL of your image. Subtract four more for the “.gif” or “.jpg” and, well, it’s not much space for a URL. I couldn’t use, for example, “www.askdavetaylor.com/imagearchive/my-myspace-name.jpg” as it’s far, far too long.
Fortunately, there are free image hosting services like Tinypic.com which will let you create and host a small graphic on their site without charge.
So I’ll test it out. Here’s a rudimentary graphic I’ve created:
Reasonably fun and visually interesting, yet pretty darn tiny. I’ll go ahead and upload it to TinyPic.com, where it’s quickly included in their database and I find out that I have three different ways I can reference it:
It’s the third one, the “Link” that I care about, not the other two. Now I can simply replace url in the above example with the TinyPic URL in my “Display Name” field:
Now with any luck, I can paste that into the “Display Name” field, save it, and have a graphic replace my name on my MySpace profile…
Looks good. Notice how if I had entered the < and > directly it would have removed them, but by using the awkward < and > sequences instead, MySpace has converted it for me. Nice!
Now, the final test, to view my profile itself!
Nice! So there ya go, you should be able to duplicate what I’ve done here with your own profile on MySpace. Me? I’m going to switch back to just having a plain old name instead. It’s less painful on the eyes. 🙂
Oh! One important tip: Because MySpace converts the < into <, this means that each time you tweak your display name you’ll have to manually convert the < back to < and > back to >. Tedious, but you probably won’t modify that too often anyway…
Update: This no longer works on MySpace, sorry to say, and I haven’t seen a good workaround yet. If you know of one, please let me know so I can update this. Meanwhile, you might be interested in reading about How to add fun symbols to your MySpace Profile Name.
Finally, if you’d like to connect with me via MySpace, that’d be great! My MySpace Page. Also, since you are just learning about MySpace, you might well be interested in my MySpace Help area too.
is there ANY OTHER WAY to replace my name with picture??? ’cause that codes doesn’t work out in my page =[
<style>
div table td form select, div table td form input, div table td form img {visibility:hidden; height: 120px; width:120px;}
div table td form {background-image:url(PIC_URL_HERE);}
</style>
PIC_URL_HERE = Your image’s URL at whatever image hosting site you’re using.
hi Dave!
hey, i really want to my profile to be just like my friend’s.
i saw a web where you can do that, but i forgot.
can you pls. tell me?
it’s like,
you have to copy your friend’s ID# then you paste it in then your profile is goin to be the same as your friends.
ASAP :]
THNX!!
Edit: Of course you do your own width and height for whatever image you’re using, as well.
Hey everyone, I know this is a late comment compared to everyone else, but me and a friend just figured out the right code after many attempts.
.nametext{background-image:url(URL Here);background-repeat:no-repeat; overflow:hidden;height:40px;width:100px; font-size:0px;text-align:left;color:green;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;display:block;line-height:0px;}
Hope it helps.
TO KATIE: lol lol lol lol, silly silly girl! it only says hello on your myspace home page! its saying hello to YOU
my display name is “annas sup-ah kool” and when i log in it says “Hello, annas sup-ah kool” it doesnt actually show up for anyone else to see.
unfortunetly god has given most of you stupidity. can’t you read? he said a number of times that the code he offered doesn’t work!!
so why do you all continue with leaving comments like: “omg your code doesnt work!!! it just did this and this”
no duh!
anyway, i tried that other code that people have been posting and it doesnt work for me either.
i know its still possible because theres a girl on my myspace with it and i asked her how she did it but she never answered……..
So help would be great. 🙂
can u please help me get on myspace
how do you put a backround up when people are viewing your pictures
i did everything you said. && t just show the <img src=etccccc on my profile when i try to put an image
yeah i just wanna know how to make my name bigger in font size as i have seen it done before. please enlighten me
my myspace name has always been ok but just recently it says hello before what i type as my name anyone know how to get rid of it?
is there anyway i could replace my myspace friend’s pictures with their name only. So that instead of showing their display name w/ their picture I just want their name on there?
mg
it didnt work 4 me
can u help make my display name big 4 me?
please!!!
emilidle xx
THANK YOU SO MUCH
that java script only works on mac
got anything for pc?
HOW DO I GHET MY WORDS RIGHT NEXT TO MY PIC ON MY MYSPACE?
To put the TM on your name, you do..
& trade ;
but you have to connect them, if i would have connected them there, it would turn out like
™
🙂
i tried doing taht color for ur name im doing something wrong can u help me please? Also my profile is set on private i want to put my layout background on that ive seen it but dont know how. Thanks sharon
i have a love my flash myspace page and i wondering how do i get the tm trademark without it saying the actua words. ™ but when i type it on my page it comes up as & trade; its says the tm sign on everybodies friend list though. it really does bother me.
how do i put drawings in my profile
how do i put a differant picture on myspace?
how do I get the Trade Mark (TM) sighn after my display name. I tried the briggzy&trade thing after my name and I still didn’t get it. Help me please
Dude, you are amazing. I want to be just like you when i grow up.
how do you put a star there instead of a heart? o.O
cause like alot of my friends have them..
Real easy to put a pic as your name. Just copy and paste the below text to your about me section at the end of everything. Be sure to put the URL for your pic (photobucket, etc) in place of mine. Enjoy!
span.nametext {font-size:0.5pt; display:block; background-image:url(http://i12.tinypic.com/52dvia0.gif); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center; overflow:none; background-attachment:scroll; text-align:center; width:200px; height:50px; color:black;}
ive seen a code where it only makes the image show up on your profile and not anywhere else. do you know that one?
DIDNT WORK.
it actually turns out
<>
on my profile…
dude this just screwed up my display name. its false info and dont do it!!!!!! DDD=
how do you get stars on your myspace name?
HELP ME PLEASE! i want to kno how do u either put a graphic on yer profile or i want to kno how to change the color on yer display name. i read all of this and tried everything but i cant figure it out! i need help from someone?!
davee tiny pic has changed pleasee fix it im trying to put and image as mt display name how do i do that
nope. Didn’t work for me 🙁
hey well this code doesn`t work trust me i know &&i actually found a nicer code &&more simple to do &&use go one “http://www.createblog.com/scripts/download.php?id=357” more simpler &&has a lot of code`s that you can use &&would be usefull for your page.
hi dave, how do i custiomize my “about me” writting, to be bold, italic, underline in some places but not others? i had it b4, but my profile got deleted, so im now in the proces of startin over. even if u cud give me the name of a website to get the codes from, that wud be a great help.
thanx love becki xx
i have a myspace music profile and the thing tiara said didnt work….how can i put an image into my name as your method does not work either?
hey dave,
im the dame as sarah
im DESPERATE to find out how to make my myspace name bigger!!
PLEASEE tell us how!!
hey
do u know how to section the writing in the about me section on myspace so there is only like one sentence per line??
Please help me because nobody knows how to help me!
On my profile i want to know the code to have when I want as my myspace name on my profile which is located above my picture in a different font and big and bold
i tried using but it comes up like tht infront of my name on my profile HELP ME PLEASEEE!!!!!
thanks tiara! that works for me, however, whenever i use it m whole profile comes out weirdly centered! solutions?
i want to make my name bigger. how do u do that
can u give me the code?
i want my name to be sarah.
plz?
i need help. for some time now i have been able to log in brouse, do everything on my profile. the only problem is that my profile is not showing up for others outside of my friends to view. my security is set for public. i have looked around and just at a dead end please help, thanks, Kevin.
style type=text/css> span.nametext {font-size:0.5pt; display:block; background-image:url(URLHERE photobucket link works best); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center; overflow:none; background-attachment:scroll; text-align:center; width:200px; height:50px; color:black;} at the end.
I was wondering if your knew how to load a picture in the name field of a music myspace. I tried using your code but it did not work it could be becuase there is no “display name” section.
IS THERE ANYWAY YOU CAN MAKE YOUR DISPLAY NAME LOGER THEN 50 Characters??
can’t u just make a div over the name and in the div format put a pic???
and since the name uses % instead of px, use the same % for where the div is placed over the name???
Yep I had html in my name for a lil bit, a very lil bit before they changed it. Some of my friends still have an image as their name though but they sure arent talking…hahahaha!!!
Jesse, yeah, the MySpace folk have changed something so you can’t do this trick any more. I don’t know why they make it so hard to customize a MySpace account, but that’s another story. I’m digging for a new solution: if you bump into one, do email me!
doesnt seem to work for me, i got it in correct, but the page just displays the url with the <http://i3.tinypic.com/112fz8h.jpg>
… YOURE AWESOME!!!!!