All You Need to Know about Coding

[Rowena]

Hey all! I know that getting used to the formatting of this kind of forum can be tricky, so here's a basic guide of everything you need to know to post with ease

Just remove the asterisks to use the codes in a post.

Basic Font Coding[/u]

bold - [*b]text[/b]

italicized - [*i]text[/i]

underlined - [*u]text[/u]

strikethrough - [*s]text[/s]

align left (automatic) - [*left]text[/left]

align center - [*center]text[/center]

align right - [*right]text[/right]

size - [*size=3]text[/size]
Size two is automatic, but the sizes range from 1 to 7.

color - [*color=choice]text[/color]
Replace "choice" with the color you wish to use - black, red, yellow,,pink, green, orange, purple, blue, beige, brown, teal, navy, maroon, and lime green.

Linking urls/images[/b]

url: [*url]www.yoururladdress.com[/url]

text link: [*url=www.yoururladdress.com]text[/url]

image link: [*img]www.yoururladdress.com[/img]

Emoticons[/u]

Remove spaces

= : )
= ; )
= : D
;D = ; D
= > : (
= : (
= : o
= 8 - )
= ? ? ?
= : : )
= : P
= : - [
= : - X
= : - /
= : - *
= : ' (

If you have any other questions, feel free to comment or ask in the How do I...? thread.

ETA:

Quoting blocks of text

= [*quote]text[/quote]

Quoting with a link to the original post can be done by clicking the button that says "quote" in the upper right hand corner of a post.