Escapist User Guide to Posting Commands

[jackanderson]

Shameless bump in the hopes that this will stay as one of the first topics in Off-Topic.

Thanks for the help man!

 

[xmbts]

I just made a thing like this and someone pointed me in this direction, It's a hell of alot better then mine so I'll give it a nudge.

 

[DiMono]

Wow, I'm surprised how much control the forums here give users over content formatting. I am officially impressed. Thanks for setting this all down.

 

[vanthebaron]

thank you good sir. *requests this be sticky'd*

I don't understand the [ youtube= ] , could someone make an example?

sure

 

[X123Lewis123X]

this guy will own all your guys.

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

TC

you spelled "affected" wrong

 

[Trippy Turtle]

[#ffffff]amidoinitrite? [/#ffffff]

 

[SPARTANXIII]

I'm still having problems posting images. Can I do it from my computers saved folder or must it be an outside source?

 

[Argonian alchemist]

What do you mean "last part of the URL"?

I still can't figure out how to post videos, been trying for about 20mins mix/matching the freaking URL...

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Let's hope this works.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

but I'on't give a FUCK! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBZMsIfHQF0]

 

[dead.juice]

What the difference between bold and strong?
Wordless - Wordless
-
Is there a coding reason that these two commands do the same thing?

 

[dead.juice]

I'm not trying to be pretentious, but don't you people know that could just use the preview button to see how the post or letters will look?
Aren't these "code command tests" considered low content post? (considering the Topic, maybe not, derp)

 

[TheKramers]

snip

That whole thing would've been a lot easier for you if this forum supported noparse tags. Then you wouldn't have had to type spaces in all your tags so people can see them.

 

[TheKramers]

I'm still having problems posting images. Can I do it from my computers saved folder or must it be an outside source?

It needs to be coming from somewhere on the internet, since this forum is linked to escapistmagazine's server, the only way to not have a urlfor it, is to have it on their server. Which you can't do.

Anyway, upload your images to imageshack.us to be able to post them. It's very simple.

Code:

[ img ]Image url here[ /img ]

Note that there should be no spaces in the img tags, I had to type them so you could see the tags.

 

[TheKramers]

What the difference between bold and strong?
Wordless - Wordless
-
Is there a coding reason that these two commands do the same thing?

This is explained in html. HTML also has and tags. Bold is always rendered as bold, however Strong is almost always rendered as bold, but it doesn't need to be. The way HTML tags are rendered depend on the browser, and nowadays all the major browsers render 'strong' as bold. However, it doesn't need to be that way, since the strong tag only indicates stronger text than that surrounding it. Therefore, if a browser wanted to, it could render strong as underlined. Some older browsers do render strong that way, but all the major browsers render strong as bold.

The same information applies to BBcode, since BBcode is basically an extremely simplified version of HTML.

 

[TheKramers]

[#ffffff]amidoinitrite? [/#ffffff]

You have to type color=#ffffff in the opening tag and /color in the closing tag.

This is the proper syntax.

[color=#ffffff]amidoinitrite?[/color]

Note that the hexadecimal code #ffffff is white, so you need to highlight above to see it.

 

[TheKramers]

What do you mean "last part of the URL"?

I still can't figure out how to post videos, been trying for about 20mins mix/matching the freaking URL...

Where are you trying to post a video from? Youtube?

You can't post a video from your own computer, there is no way to post videos to this forum. Some code has to be added to the forums to allow youtube videos to be posted.

This code would have to be added to the forum to allow youtube video to be posted here.

Code:

Then this code:
[ youtube]JcjoGn6FLwI[/youtube]

Would post this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjoGn6FLwI

 

[TheFinalFantasyWolf]

Sorry, testing