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Justice4L

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Hello, i am pretty new to the escapist and was wondering how to do two fundamental things.

1. Spoiler tags.

2. Putting in a direct image instead of a link. I know how to do this with videos but not images.

If you could help i would be very grateful. Cheers.
 

Simalacrum

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Simple really, for spoiler tags you type:

insert text here[/.spoiler]. (but without the ".")

For images, [.img]insert image URL here[/.img] (again, without the ".")

Same rule with other things, it's basically [ ] with the command inside, whatever text you want changed, then [/ ] to end it. Same with bold text (), italics (), strikes (), underlining, and even different colours. (that ones a bit more complicated, use [color=insert colour here], then [/.color], again without the ".")

You can also embed YouTube vids, by putting in [.youtube=enter URL here], but this one you don't need [/YouTube].

There is even an option that The Escapist staff added specially for me (which was awful nice of them to do :3), in which you can embed videos from the little known site www.juggling.tv (which I often link to, since I'm the Resident Juggler ;D), but that particular command I'm going to keep as my own little secret ;)
 

Justice4L

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Ah thank you very much :) Did not know you could do all that lol.

Is this right?
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Catchy Slogan

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Definitely check out this thread. You can bookmark it too in case you forget anything.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.198114-Escapist-User-Guide-to-Posting-Commands
 

Justice4L

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Catchy Slogan said:
Definitely check out this thread. You can bookmark it too in case you forget anything.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.198114-Escapist-User-Guide-to-Posting-Commands
Cheers! This helps a lot.