The first row is just some basic formatting of the text:
The first group is fairly self explanatory:
"Bold", "Italicized", "Underline", "Strikethrough"
Bold,
Italicized,
Underline,
Strikethrough[b]Bold[/b], [i]Italicized[/i], [u]Underline[/u], [s]Strikethrough[/s]
"Preformatted text" is a little different.
Text in a <pre> element is displayed in a fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.
Text in a <pre> element is displayed in a fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.
[pre]Text in a <pre> element is displayed in a fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.[/pre]
Text alignments, also self explanatory:
"Left Align"
"Centered"
"Right Align"
[left]"Left Align"[/left]
[center]"Centered"[/center]
[right]"Right Align"[/right]
"Font Face", "Font Size" and "Font Color" allow you to change the look of your text.
I am not going to get into all of them but there are a few common pointers for them.
"Font Face" and "Font Color" are mostly straight forward.
Use them sparingly for the most part or your posts will quickly become annoying.
Using colors to separate things into groups is ok but try to keep them consistent.
When I do update posts I use multiple colors for emphasis.
Red for strong warnings, yellow for soft warnings, and green for what has been updated.
Always read the Red Warnings.I sometimes use colors to denote matching sentiments in multiple lines. (Like in
this post)
"Font Size" can be the hardest thing to use properly.
The forum code uses 2 styles for font size, em and pt.
"em" is a multiple of the base font size, while "pt" is strict pixel size.
10pt 12pt 15pt0.8em 1.5em 2.5em[size=10pt]10pt[/size] [size=12pt]12pt[/size] [size=15pt]15pt[/size]
[size=0.8em]0.8em[/size] [size=1.5em]1.5em[/size] [size=2.5em]2.5em[/size]
The forum can switch between using em or pt on its own if you copy and paste something that has been resized.
It can be quite annoying at times.
