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Frequently Asked Questions (Forum)
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Forum Markup
To modify text in the forums, there are a variety of markup tags that can be used. The forum uses a system similar to HTML and generic forum markup code, with some differences. Most markup options can be automatically used from the post toolbar. Most text effects require opening and closing tags.
General text:
- [b] to bold text like this [/b]
- [i] to italicize text like this [/i]
- [u] to underline text like this[/u]
- [s]
to strikethrough text like this[/s] - [sm] to make tiny text[/sm]
Quotes:
To quote a section of text, use [quote] text to quote [/quote]. To add the name of the person you are quoting, use [quote=nameofperson] text to quote [/quote]
Preserve Formatting:
When creating a new post, the forum system automatically removes extra spaces and line breaks. To preserve that formatting, use the [pre] [/pre] tags as follows:
[pre] a b c d e f g h [/pre]
Lists:
The list system is complex, but with practice can be a very powerful tool. There are 4 main list types. numbered lists, lists with a round bullet, lists with a square bullet, and lists with a hollow round bullet.
The basic list item markup is [li][/li]. That by itself will result in a single bullet item of text like:
* single bullet
To generate a numeric list, you enclose the [li][/li] tag inside [ol] [/ol] tags. for example:
[ol]
[li]item 1[/li]
[li]item 2[/li]
[/ol]
would result in:
1. item 1
2. item 2
To group list items together, you use the [ul] [/ul] tag. The basic [ul] [/ul] tag below:
[ul]
[li]item 1 [/li]
[li]item 2 [/li]
[/ul]
results in:
* item 1
* item 2
You can also modify the bullet type by specifying square, disc or circle inside the [ul] tag
| [ul=square] [li]item 1 [/li] [li]item 2 [/li] [/ul] results in:
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[ul=disc] [li]item 1[/li] [li]item 2[/li] [/ul] results in:
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[ul=circle] [li]item 1[/li] [li]item 2[/li] [/ul] results in:
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Color:
To use a text color, simply put the color text in a markup tag like [colorgoeshere][/colorgoeshere].
- To use Dodgerblue, you would type [Dodgerblue] text goes here [/Dodgerblue].
Any of the colors can also be used to set the background color for a specific section of text using [bg=Color][/bg].
- To get pink text with a Darkturquoise background you would type [bg=Darkturquoise][Fuschia]Example[/Fuschia][/bg].
You can nest background color and text color tags.
You can use colors to fill in whole rows of the screen using the [block=color][/block] tag.
- Using our Darkturquoise again, [block=color]Example [/block] would result in
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The full list of available colors is below:
| Black Maroon Green Olive Navy Purple Teal Gray Silver Red Lime Yellow Blue Fuchsia Aqua white Aliceblue Antiquewhite Aquamarine Azure Beige Bisque Blanchedalmond Blueviolet Brown Burlywood Cadetblue Chartreuse Oldlace Olivedrab Orange Orangered Orchid Palegoldenrod Palegreen |
Chocolate Coral Cornflowerblue Cornsilk Crimson Cyan Darkblue Darkcyan Darkgoldenrod Darkgray Darkgreen Darkkhaki Darkmagenta Darkolivegreen Darkorange Darkorchid Darkred Darksalmon Darkseagreen Darkslateblue Darkslategray Darkturquoise Darkviolet Peachpuff Peru Pink Plum Powderblue Rosybrown Royalblue Saddlebrown Salmon Sandybrown Seagreen Sienna |
Deeppink Deepskyblue Dimgray Dodgerblue Firebrick Floralwhite Forestgreen Gainsboro Ghostwhite Gold Goldenrod Greenyellow Honeydew Hotpink Indianred Indigo Ivory Khaki Lavender Lavenderblush Lawngreen Snow Springgreen Steelblue Tan Thistle Tomato Turquoise Violet Wheat Whitesmoke Yellowgreen Skyblue Slateblue Slategray |
Lemonchiffon Lightblue Lightcoral Lightcyan Lightgoldenrodyellow Lightgreen Lightgrey Lightpink Lightsalmon Lightseagreen Lightskyblue Lightslategray Lightsteelblue Lightyellow Limegreen Linen Magenta Mediumaquamarine Mediumblue Mediumorchid Mediumpurple Mediumseagreen Mediumslateblue Mediumspringgreen Mediumturquoise Mediumvioletred Midnightblue Mintcream Mistyrose Moccasin Navajowhite Paleturquoise Palevioletred Papayawhip Seashell |