As I said in the recent development blog post I am investigating various plugins to make the forum easier to use. Until I'm happy that those work as advertised, here's a few tips on using the forums using the HTML markup that it currently uses:
0. Preliminary
All HTML tags have an opening and a closing tag. Tags start with a less than < symbol followed by the tag name. Tags then optionally have a list of attributes which are the attribute name followed by an equals sign = followed by the value in quotes. Finally the tag has a greater than sign >. The closing tag is similar but has a forward slash / before the tag name and doesn't have any attributes. In short:
<tag attribute='value'>text</tag>
1. Posting Links
To post a link you need to use the anchor tag <a> . The anchor tag has an href attribute which is the address of the link, and should include the http://
<a href='http://www.f1rivals.net'>F1 Rivals!</a>
displays as:
In addition, the forum software will automatically turn links into, umm, links. So just posting
will automatically become a link. The downside is you cannot provide nice descriptive text that way and it just shows the link.
2. Posting Quotes
To post a quote you need to use the <blockquote> tag. It has no attributes.
<blockquote>And the moment was marked with celebrations that began the second Vettel crossed the line, shouting: "Yes, yes, yes, yes!"</blockquote>
displays as:
And the moment was marked with celebrations that began the second Vettel crossed the line, shouting: "Yes, yes, yes, yes!"
I usually like to post the source of the quote using a link underneath the quote.
3. Posting Images
For images you will need the image <img> tag. The image tag has a src (for source) attribute which is the address of the image. Because the image tag does not require any text between the opening and closing tag, we can include the closing forward slash at the end of the single tag.
<img src='http://www.f1rivals.net/images/f1rivals.button1.gif' />
displays as:
4. Bold and Italics
Bold text requires the <strong> or <b> tag and italics requires the emphasis <em> or <i> tag.
<strong>Bold</strong> and <b>also bold</b> and <em>italics</em> and <i>also italicis</i>
displays as:
Bold and also bold and italics and also italicis