Rich-text forum messages

Although HTML coding is not allowed, you may format your forum messages using our built in, mark-up language. This language is a subset of HTML. If you are already familiar with mark-up languages you may skip the next two paragraphs and go straight to the tag reference.

This small language consists of a series of tags that are integrated into your message. The tags are English words (such as "quote") or abbreviations (such as "b" for "bold"), but they are distinguished from the regular text because they are placed in square brackets. So the quote tag is [quote] and the bold tag is [b].

The first thing to remember about tags is that they are always used in pairs. Every time you use a tag - say [quote] - you must also close it off with another tag - in this case [/quote]. The slash ("/") before the word "quote" is what distinguishes a closing tag from an opening one.

Tag Reference:

Text Formatting

 Bold Font
Code: [b]my text[/b]
Result: my text

 Italic Font
Code: [i]my text[/i]
Result: my text

 Underlined Font
Code: [u]my text[/u]
Result: my text

 Font Size
Code: [1]my text[/1]
Result: my text
Note: "1" is an example, you may use any of the following numbers:
1
2
3
4

 Superscript Font
Code: E=MC[sup]2[/sup]
Result: E=MC²

 Subscript Font
Code: H[sub]2[/sub]O
Result: H₂O

 Fixed Width Font
Code: [fixed]my text[/fixed]
Result: my text

 Color Font - Predefined
Code: [blue]my text[/blue]
Result: my text
Note: "blue" is an example, you can use any of the following colors:
black
silver
gray
white
maroon
red
purple
fuchsia
green
lime
olive
yellow
navy
blue
teal
aqua

 Color Font - Hexadecimal
Code: [hex:0099FF]my text[/hex]
Result: my text
Note: The hexadecimal code "0099FF" is an example, you may use any hex code.

 Quote
Code: [quote]my text[/quote]
Result:

my text

Linking

 Quick Link
Code: www.mysite.com
Result: www.mysite.com
Note: "www.mysite.com" is an example, any URL (www, http & ftp) or email address is automatically linked. You may avoid this by preceding the address with the escape character.

 URL Link
Code: [url:www.mysite.com]check out my site[/url]
Result: check out my site
Note: Clicking on the link will take the user to the site you specified on the tag ("www.mysite.com" in this case).

 Email Link
Code: [email:me@mysite.com]contact me[/email]
Result: contact me
Note: Clicking on the link will allow the user to send an email message to the address you specified on the tag ("me@mysite.com" in this case).

Other

 Image
Code: [img]http://www.mysite.com/donald.gif[/img]
Result:

 List - Unordered
Code: [ulist] [#]Item 1 [#]Item 2 [#]Item 3 [/ulist]
Result:

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

 List - Ordered
Code: [olist] [#]Item 1 [#]Item 2 [#]Item 3 [/olist]
Result:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3

 Position - Center
Code: [center]my text[/center]
Result:

 Position - Right
Code: [right]my text[/right]
Result:

Special Characters

 Escape
Code: \[b]my text\[/b]
Result: [b]my text[/b]
Note: You can escape a tag by preceding it with the escape character ("\").This means that the tag is displayed as text. You may use this feature to show to new users the syntax of a tag, or in the case that you don't want a URL or email address to be automatically converted to a link (e.g. code: \www.mysite.com result: www.mysite.com).

 Copyright
Code: [c]
Result: ©

 Registered
Code: [r]
Result: ®

 Trade Mark
Code: [tm]
Result: ™

 One Quarter
Code: [1/4]
Result: ¼

 One Half
Code: [1/2]
Result: ½

 Three Quarters
Code: [3/4]
Result: ¾

 Paragraph
Code: [par]
Result: ¶

 Section
Code: [sec]
Result: §

 Currency
Code: [cur]
Result: ¤

 Euro
Code: [eur]
Result: ?

 Pound
Code: [pnd]
Result: £

 Yen
Code: [yen]
Result: ¥