Some of you may have noticed thread postings or gallery descriptions that include bold/underlined/colored text. You may have also seen hyperlinks provided with actual words to click on, instead of a url.
Here are the basic rules for adding this type of formatting in your own posts or gallery descriptions.
You place the text you would like to display between an "opening code" and a "closing code." The opening codes are put within brackets [] and the closing codes are put within brackets with a / in front of the code.
For example, to make text
bold, you would put a b in the brackets before your word and a /b in the brackets after your word. It would look like this, but
with [] instead of ()
(b) My Text (/b)
Then, if you wanted the text to also be
underlined, you would simply add an open/close code for underlining, which is the letter u. It would look like this:
(b)(u) My Text (/b)(/u)
If you wanted
italics, you would use the letter "i". Generally, just remember that if you open a code before your text, you must close it after your text.
If you want to change the size of your text, use the following code:
(size="1") My Text (/size)
with values between 1 and 7.
size=1
size=2
size=3
size=4
size=5
size=6
size=7
Another format you can add is color. Here is the code. Remember: you must replace the () with [].
(color=red) My Text (/color)
To add a hyperlink to your text, you use this code:
(url=PASTE URL HERE) My Text (/url)
These codes are not case sensitive. In other words, you can use B, U, I, URL, COLOR, etc.
So, here's your mind-blowing example of a bold, underlined, italicized, red hyperlink:
(url=PASTE URL)(b)(u)(i)(color=Red) My Text (/url)(/b)(/u)(/i)(/color)
As if this isn't enough information, here is a list of some of the many colors you can use:
Black
Sienna
DarkOliveGreen
DarkGreen
DarkSlateBlue
Navy
Indigo
DarkSlateGray
DarkRed
DarkOrange
Olive
Green
Teal
Blue
SlateGray
DimGray
Red
SandyBrown
YellowGreen
SeaGreen
MediumTurquoise
RoyalBlue
Purple
Gray
Magenta
Orange
Yellow
Lime
Cyan
DeepSkyBlue
DarkOrchid