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Post Formatting Codes

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Direct HTML is not allowed in your posts, however, the following formatting codes are available:

Fonts and Colors

Description	Usage	Example Input	Example Output
Font Face	[font=font_name]...[/font]	[font=Times New Roman]Times New Roman[/font]	Times New Roman
Font Size	[size=pixels]...[/size]	[size=18]18-pixel text[/size]	18-pixel text
Foreground Color	[color=html_color]...[/color] or [fg=html_color]...[/fg]	[color=#003366]dark blue text[/color] or [fg="firebrick"]firebrick[/fg]	dark blue text or firebrick
Background Color	[bg=html_color*]...[/bg]	[bg=#FFFF00]highlighted yellow[/bg]	highlighted yellow

* html_color can be an RGB literal (#RGB or #RRGGBB) or a named web color.

Links and Images

Description	Usage	Example Input	Example Output
Link	[link=URL]anchor_text[/link]	[link=http://www.example.com/]Example[/link]	Example
Image	[img=URL]	[img=/lisa.jpg]

Text Styles

Description	Usage	Example Input	Example Output
Bold	[b] ... [/b]	[b]bold text[/b]	bold text
Italic	[i] ... [/i]	[i]italic text[/i]	italic text
Strikethrough	[s] ... [/s]	[s]strikethrough text[/s]	strikethrough text
Underline	[u] ... [/u]	[u]underlined text[/u]	underlined text

Text Alignment

Description	Usage	Example Input	Example Output
Left	[l] ... [/l]	[l]left-aligned text[/l]	left-aligned text
Center	[c] ... [/c]	[c]centered text[/c]	centered text
Right	[r] ... [/r]	[r]right-aligned text[/r]	right-aligned text
Justify	[j] ... [/j]	[j]this text is justified, which means that the words on each line except the last are spaced so that both the left and right sides are aligned evenly[/j]	this text is justified, which means that the words on each line except the last are spaced so that both the left and right sides are aligned evenly
Superscript	[sup] ... [/sup]	This text is [sup]superscript[/sup]	This text is ^superscript
Subscript	[sub] ... [/sub]	This text is [sub]subscript[/sub]	This text is _subscript

Blocks

Description	Usage	Example Input	Example Output
Quote, method 1	[q] ... [/q]	[q]quoted text[/q]	Quote: quoted text
Quote, method 2	[q=origin] ... [/q]	[q=Shakespeare]To be or not to be, that is the question[/q]	Quote: Shakespeare To be or not to be, that is the question
Computer code	[code] ... [/code]	[code]Object.DoSomething();[/code]	Object.DoSomething();

Tables

Start with [table] and [/table].

Rows are added inside [table] tags using the [tr] and [/tr] tags.

Header cells are added inside [tr] tags using the [th] and [/th] tags.

Data cells are added inside [tr] tags using the [td] and [/td] tags.

Example Input

[table]

 [tr]
 [th]Header 1[/th]
 [th]Header 2[/th]
 [th]Header 3[/th]
 [/tr]

 [tr]
 [td]Data value 1[/td]
 [td]Data value 2[/td]
 [td]Data value 3[/td]
 [/tr]

 [tr]
 [td]Data value 4[/td]
 [td]Data value 5[/td]
 [td]Data value 6[/td]
 [/tr]

 [tr]
 [td]Data value 7[/td]
 [td]Data value 8[/td]
 [td]Data value 9[/td]
 [/tr]

[/table]

Example Output

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Data value 1	Data value 2	Data value 3
Data value 4	Data value 5	Data value 6
Data value 7	Data value 8	Data value 9

Lists

For a bulleted list, start with [blist] and [/blist].

For a numbered list, start with [nlist] and [/nlist].

Add items inside the list tags using [item] and [/item].

Example Input

[blist]
[item]Bulleted item 1[/item]
[item]Bulleted item 2[/item]
[item]Bulleted item 3[/item]
[/blist]

[nlist]
[item]Numbered item A[/item]
[item]Numbered item B[/item]
[item]Numbered item C[/item]
[/nlist]

Example Output

Bulleted item 1
Bulleted item 2
Bulleted item 3

Numbered item A
Numbered item B
Numbered item C

Miscellaneous

To hide "spoiler" text, enclose it within [spoiler] and [/spoiler] tags.

This is an example of how the [spoiler] ... [/spoiler] tag works.

You can change the text shown on the button by specifying it like this: [spoiler=ButtonText]Spoiler text[/spoiler].

Spoiler text

An opening or closing bracket can be escaped by enclosing itself in brackets, such as [[] or []]. This is handy when you want to discuss one of the above tags, without having your text be parsed as tags.