Formatting text in forum posts

Formatting text in forum posts

Return to topic list

Thu Jul 7 12:08:54 2011   by   Torben
You can use a number of simple formatting codes to get more than plain text in forums:

- You can use unicode HTML character entities such as ≤ or ≤ (both of which show as ≤). See http://theorem.ca/~mvcorks/code/charsets/auto.html for a list of these.

- An _ followed by a space is just a _, but if followed by anything else it uses the following text up to the next space as subscript. So writing a_17 shows as a17 and so on.  In a similar way, ^ generates superscripts such as 2^16 giving 216 .

- You can change text style using ~.  ~b starts bold text, ~i starts italic text and ~c starts code text.  A single ~ closes the formatting, so to get this you have to write ~bthis~.  You can write a ~ by using two adjacent ~, i.e., ~~. The ~ codes can span several words or lines (unlike superscripts and subscripts).
 
Thu Jul 7 12:15:43 2011   by   Torben
You can get bold italic by combining ~b and ~i codes. Note that you must close with two ~ separated by space, i.e., ~b~ibold italic~ ~.
 
Fri Jul 8 16:33:34 2011   by   foobar
foo<script>alert('bar');</script>
 
Fri Jul 8 16:49:59 2011   by   Torben
@foobar:

No, I have made sure no HTML tags get through. :-)
 
Fri Nov 4 12:31:16 2011   by   Torben
You can preview your message by pressing the Preview button.  You don't need to type the dice values, but you do need to specify a topic and a name.
 
Wed Oct 16 12:16:43 2013   by   Torben
You can now use links to web page in postings.  Any string that starts with "http://" and after that uses only letters, digits or the symbols . / - ~ _ or + is treated as a link and shown as such.
 
Wed Apr 23 09:59:18 2014   by   Torben
I have added ? and = as characters allowed in links.
 
Wed May 14 09:41:41 2014   by   Torben
I have added also % and & as characters allowed in links.
 

Return to topic list



New message:
Topic:
Posted by:

Type the values of the dice shown below:

Return to topic list