- littlerat
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Since many of you can't seem to find the 'Text Markup Tags' Panel right next to a text box when your making post, I've decided to make a tutorial to teach some of you how to use these special little scripts. They're not really that hard to use once you come to think of it. The first tutorial, is showing you how to make your very own lazy link!
1. The named link (Lazy Link):
Probably the most used script in these entire forums. Very usefull for advertising chapters (in the classifieds or you signitures) and can easily be done. Here is an example for making a named link that links to the google search engine.
[url=http://www.google.com/]Google![/url]
Please take note, that you MUST have the http:// when using a link. If it doesn't have that, then it will link to an error page somewhere inside bungie.net. Also, make sure there are no spaces in the url at all or else it won't work.
2. Bold, Italics, and Underline.
Easiest forms of tags to make. Example:
* Bold: [b] Your text here [/b].
* Italics: [i] Your text here [/i].
* Underline: [u] Your text here [/u]
Nothing special there.
3. Color!
This ones a little more complicated. You can use solid colors (i.e. Red, Blue, Green, Yellow) Or you can use hexidecimal. Hexidecimal is defined by 6 digits, which mix colors, to make other colors. A number with all zero's (000000) is black. You can also use the letters A to F in that combination, to make brighter colors. FFFFFF for example, is white.
[color=red] your text here [/color] Would make the color red.
[color=AF73B2] your text here [/color] Would make the text color a purplish pink.
4. Normal Link
This is pretty easy. It's kinda like the lazy link, except the url goes inbetween the opening and closing tags. The example links to the google search engine ofcourse.
[url]http://www.google.com[/url]
Again, you must have the http:// as the start of the url, or else it won't work.
5. Email link.
Kinda like the normal link. Just with email replacing url.
[email]eye.are@gmail.com[/email]
Not much special for that.
6. List Item.
If your gona list something, you might aswell use this tag. It's easy enough.
[*] List item one
[*] List item two
[*] List item three
etc...
The good part is, you don't even need to close it.
7. Quotes
Also commonly used. It can be used in two ways.
1. In reply to a post, you can just hit the Quote Button down near Submit, Preview and Cancel
2. Type the tags in yourself, if your quoteing one or more persons, or some thing someone has said. Example Follows.
[quote]
Your Text here
[/quote]
You can also just use [[b]q] and [/q] which does exactly the same thing, except shorter.
Well that's it. I hope you may have learnt something from this, and maybe hopefully it won't get locked.
To mods: The reason why I didn't post this in The Septagon is because that not many new people go there. And as The Underground is often the first place new people go, that is the reason as it was posted here.
littlerat.
[Edited on 10/2/2004 5:54:49 PM]