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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.
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]
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]
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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To use a text color, simply put the color text in a markup tag like [colorgoeshere][/colorgoeshere].
Any of the colors can also be used to set the background color for a specific section of text using [bg=Color][/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.
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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 |
There are 3 ways to do links.
All tags above work in Signatures too.
There are also several forum shortcut markup tags for linking to EQ, FFXI, and WoW profiles. To use, you need to find out the number of the EQ, Wow, or FFXI character profile you wish to link to and use the following markup tags:
Please note the profile number is your character profile, and not your forum user ID number. That number can be located under the User Login and Details section under "Your Characters". Be sure and use the appropriate template as the news templates do not allow for user information ( EQ, FFXI, WoW ).
For premium members, we also offer the ability to link to a custom graphical sig based off your profile information. This is currently only supported for FFXI & WoW profiles.
[wowsig]wow_character_id_number_goes_here[/wowsig]
The forum system includes a polling module. You must be a Premium user to create a poll, however any registered forum user may vote in one. A poll can only be created in the first post of a thread, and cannot be edited once created. You may currently only have one question per poll, however there is no limit on choices. The syntax for creating a poll is as follows:
[poll]
[question]Question text[/question]
[choice]choice 1 [/choice]
[choice]choice 2 [/choice]
[choice]choice 3 [/choice]
[choice]choice 4 [/choice]
[/poll]
To use a smilie, place the [:code:] in the text of your forum message. A maximum of 9 smilies will parse in a forum post. You can also use a smilie as a link button by placing it inside a [link] tag as the link text.
[:queen:]
[:deadhorse:] [:yikes:] [:yippee:] [:smile:] [:grin:] [:frown:] [:mad:] [:cool:] [:eek:] [:wink:] [:jester:] [:confused:] [:tongue:] [:rolleyes:] [:twocents:] [:snore:] [:jawdrop:] [:inlove:] [:disappointed:] [:cry:] |
[:boozing:]
[:banghead:] [:bah:] [:blush:] [:clown:] [:glare:] [:glasses:] [:king:] [:laugh:] [:lol:] [:oyvey:] [:sleeper:] [:sly:] [:waycool:] [:wink2:] [:dnp:] [:clap:] [:drool2:] [:drunk:] [:flowers:] [:chug:] [:bowdown:] |
[:goat:]
[:moogle:] [:cookie:] [:ducttape:] [:monkey:] [:cheese:] [:dubious:] [:motz:] [:spam:] [:schooled:] |
Of course, there might be a few secret undocumented ones snuck in there somewhere too...