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Inyureye
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 Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: Dressing up Text |
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When you are writing a post or a reply, you might have noticed BBcode boxes at the top of the posting screen, like a bold B, an italic i, a u that is underlined, Quote, Code, List, List= , Img, and URL, also a box called font colour and once called Font size. I am not familiar with all of those, but the ones pertaining to text changes, I can address.
If you highlight a part of the text you are typing, then you can click underline and the BB Code will be inserted in your text and the highlighted text will be underlined, after you hit "submit".
In the same way, highlight some text and scroll down and choose a new font color in the selection box, or choose a new font size and make it both colored and larger.
Here is some text bolded, colored, underlined, and larger.
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Sam
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: Re: Dressing up Text |
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| Inyureye wrote: | | Quote, Code, List, List= , Img, and URL, |
Those work the same way the B, i, u and font colour/font size buttons work only they are more geared for full text, images and webpages.
I've already explained the "Img" box in the other thread.
The Quote option works just like quoting another poster.
You'll have noticed by now that when you hit the quote button at the top of someone's post, there is a bracket "[", with "quote="(poster's name)", and then a closing bracket, "]", that shows up in front of the text and a corresponding "[", "/quote", and closing "]" that shows up around the text you are quoting. That is the commanded that puts the "(poster's name) wrote" above the text and the quoted text in that box.
If you are quoting something that isn't from another poster, rather something you clipped and posted here, you would highlight it and click the "quote" button to accomplish the same thing.
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The URL box is for shortening really long hyperlinks into something more manageable and change it to a single word or sentence instead of all the "http://...." stuff.
In this case you would copy the web address for whatever you want to direct people to, say a horse's pedigree:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=LE%20CIEL&g=5&inbred=Standard&x2=n&pedloggedin=0
If you highlight that, then click the URL button, it will active the text as a hyperlink by placing an opening bracket -- '[' -- followed by 'url' and then a closing bracket -- ']' in front of the address and a corresponding closing command behind it -- '[', then '/url' and a final ']':
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=LE%20CIEL&g=5&inbred=Standard&x2=n&pedloggedin=0
However, if you have your preferences set to always enable BBCode, that isn't a step you need to take as it will already show up as a link. You'll notice that both examples in this post are showing up as active links .. one is just a darker colour and underlined.
If you want to shorten all that text into just a few short, descriptive words:
Instead of '[' followed by 'url' and ']', you would write '[' followed by url=(web address) and then a closing ']'
The next step is to type the description of that text, in this case "Le Ciel Pedigree"
The final command is a '[' followed by '/url', and a final ']'
That turns:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=LE%20CIEL&g=5&inbred=Standard&x2=n&pedloggedin=0
into this:
Le Ciel Pedigree
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Next is the "List" command
If you wanted to create a list of something and make it stand out within you posts, normally you would do it like this:
Sons of Kris S.
1. Kissin Kris
2. Rock Hard Ten
3. Action This Day
4. Le Ciel
5. Dr Fong
To make it stand out, you would take that list, highlight it and click the "List" button, turning into this:
Sons of Kris S.
1. Kissin Kris
2. Rock Hard Ten
3. Action This Day
4. Le Ciel
5. Dr Fong
Basically, it just creates an indentation within the post.
I'll be honest, I've not yet figured out how the "List=" or the "Code" buttons work ...
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