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Message Markup - heyrick - 07/06/2021
If you are posting using a browser that provides the fancy toolbar, the simplest way to use it is to type something and then select the text and then apply the style you want.
With links, I find that it's a great help to place a comma or space, then back up, and then insert the link. This stops subsequently entered content from being taken as part of the link. Bug in the editor, I think. ;-)
In all cases, you can use manually-inserted markup. It's similar to HTML, but not the same. The tags go in square brackets, as follows:
This:
Code:
Text in [i]italics[/i].
Text in [b]bold[/b].
Text [u]underlined[/u].
Text [s]struck through[/s].
You can [b][i]mix them up too[/i][/b]!Looks like this:
Text in italics.
Text in bold.
Text underlined.
Text struck through.
You can mix them up too!
You can use 'em' and 'strong' instead of bold and italic; but it's more to type. :-)
You can create lists:
Code:
[list][*]First[/*][*]Second[/*][*]Third[/*][/list]
[list=1][*]First[/*][*]Second[/*][*]Third[/*][/list]- First
- Second
- Third
- First
- Second
- Third
Code:
[url=https://heyrick.eu/blog/]Go visit my blog![/url]You can insert images:
Code:
[img]https://heyrick.eu/aldershot/images/icons/heart.png[/img]![[Image: heart.png]](https://heyrick.eu/aldershot/images/icons/heart.png){kind=icon}
If you are quoting somebody:
Code:
[quote]This is quoted.[/quote]Quote:This is quoted.
You can also use 'code' to put things in a way that won't be parsed (as shown in the examples above). There's also 'size' for editing the text size (it's either 1-6, or a percentage), and 'color' (spelled the American way) for giving text colour.
For other ideas, Google for "BBCode markup".
RE: Message Markup - heyrick - 07/06/2021
Smilies are automatically inserted if you type certain sequences, such as semi-colon, right bracket. (it doesn't work for ;-) though) or colon huh colon (that's a colon, the word "huh", and another colon).
Wink
Huh
If you have a fancy browser, there's a selection box on the left with various smilies, and "get more" will pop up an explanation of the shortcuts that can be used for all of them.
Personally, I find this annoying (especially the auto-subs) because they are a completely different size to the text and mess up the flow, but I don't want to turn it off unless there's a concensus that "yeah, they gotta go". Let me know.
RE: Message Markup - CliveSemmens - 08/06/2021
(07/06/2021, 9:06 pm)heyrick Wrote: With links, I find that it's a great help to place a comma or space, then back up, and then insert the link. This stops subsequently entered content from being taken as part of the link. Bug in the editor, I think. ;-)Given that I find it necessary to do the same thing in gmail on Firefox, it seems forgiveable.