Oh hai! ~a lolcat waves several printed pages of forum threads.
You probably all know that we have a limited WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor for our posts. So, mhmm, sweet, we can make things bold, write in italics, underline it or strike it through. Or combine it to a crazy mess of fontstuff. But what else can you do?
Well, pretty much everything. This forum uses what is called BB code. What is BB code? It's a simplified markup code that was born from the Bulletin Board, a fairly wide-used forum software. The code applied there became a standard, if you will, with many basic things covered and additional elements added by subsequent forum software based on or close to BB code and/or Bulletin Board.
So, where does this leave us? Awesome country. Read this. The majority of those tags can be used here. For example,
[list][*]1[*]2[*]3[/list]
Creates a list!
1
2
3
And
[url=http://example.com]Example[/url]
Creates a named link, just as I did up there to link to the Wiki-article on BB code. Another common thing is
But, how do you know that it works out fine? Type your post, then hit Ctrl + A (mark all), Ctrl + C (copy) and paste it into notepad (Start > Run > notepad) with Ctrl + V. Then hit "More Reply Options" - it'll give a preview of your thread. Now, copy the saved text back in, fix any errors your code caused, and when you want to check again hit "Preview Post" - and if that looks as spankingly awesome as you like it, post it up, butter cup.
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Oh hai! ~a lolcat waves several printed pages of forum threads.
You probably all know that we have a limited WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor for our posts. So, mhmm, sweet, we can make things bold, write in italics, underline it or
strike it through. Or combine it to a crazymessoffontstuff. But what else can you do?Well, pretty much everything. This forum uses what is called BB code. What is BB code? It's a simplified markup code that was born from the Bulletin Board, a fairly wide-used forum software. The code applied there became a standard, if you will, with many basic things covered and additional elements added by subsequent forum software based on or close to BB code and/or Bulletin Board.
So, where does this leave us? Awesome country. Read this. The majority of those tags can be used here. For example,
Creates a list!And
Creates a named link, just as I did up there to link to the Wiki-article on BB code. Another common thing isAnd of course, the ever-important:
... for images. ;)But, how do you know that it works out fine? Type your post, then hit Ctrl + A (mark all), Ctrl + C (copy) and paste it into notepad (Start > Run > notepad) with Ctrl + V. Then hit "More Reply Options" - it'll give a preview of your thread. Now, copy the saved text back in, fix any errors your code caused, and when you want to check again hit "Preview Post" - and if that looks as spankingly awesome as you like it, post it up, butter cup.
Hope this helps! :)
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