Formatting, misc. advanced tips

[Simon]

How to format your forum messages like a pro!

Links

• You can dump the address in the text, without any tag around it, and hope the forum software recognizes it.
  http://www.example.com → http://www.example.com
  
  
• Alternatively, put [url] around the address, to guarantee linkification:
  [url]http://www.example.com[/url] → http://www.example.com
  
  
• For very noble formatting, you can rename the link via [url=address]:
  [url=http://www.example.com]Example Website[/url] → Example Website
  

Named spoiler tags

[spoiler]Secret message[/spoiler] becomes:

Spoiler

Secret message

[spoiler=Custom clickable text]Secret message[/spoiler] becomes:

Custom clickable text

Secret message

Copying other people's formatting

You see other people's posts, and wonder how they got the formatting right.

Click "quote" on their post. Their message's source code will appear for you to edit. Study the source code to see how they formatted their text.



Icho has raged! With spoiler tags, the always-visible name goes into the tag, and the content goes between the tags. With URLs, the always-visible link name goes between the tags, and the URL content goes into the tag.

-- Simon