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why doesnt the tain forum use same html codes as this one..


I am total beginner when it comes to html... and i think I got the magma forum html a little figured out then I try to do the same thing for testing what I can do for uploaded stuff on the tain and it seems not to work at all...

just wondering... wandering around dazed and confused....

Uhhh...the tain forum IS this one...

it just looks different depending on where you click the "forum" link from

-DA

Point wrote:why doesnt the tain forum use same html codes as this one..


I am total beginner when it comes to html... and i think I got the magma forum html a little figured out then I try to do the same thing for testing what I can do for uploaded stuff on the tain and it seems not to work at all...

just wondering... wandering around dazed and confused....

If you mean it's different between how emphasize text in the forums vs. how you emphasize text in the map description box in the tain you are correct.

The Tain description box allows some HTML for formatting, but the forums don't use HTML they use a Forum hiliting standard called BBCode.

To hilite a section of text in the forum you would type something like:

Code: Select all

 [b]This is bold. [/b] or [i] this is italicized[/i]. 

To hilite a section of text in the Tain description box you would enter some HTML markup something like :

Code: Select all

 <strong> This is bold </strong> or <em> This is italicized</em>

(em="emphasized" which most often translates to italicized)

If this isn't what you meant, please ignore this post.

yes thats what I meant... cuz i certainly got it wrong trying to use what I all ready learned over there


can't we all just get along

PS I like this one better.... [ truly i do ]

Point wrote:yes thats what I meant... cuz i certainly got it wrong trying to use what I all ready learned over there


can't we all just get along

PS I like this one better.... [ truly i do ]

HTML ain't so bad - especially if you aren't coding entire pages and just want to do some text formatting and bolding and inserting images into the Tain

http://webmonkey.com/webmonkey/referenc ... heatsheet/

you could make a decent looking description with combos of not much more than a handful of tags like:

<strong> </strong>
<em> </em>
<h1> thru <h4>
<font size=n> </font> where 'n'= -4 to +4
<div align=center> </div>
and a tag for your spiffy graphic
<img src=http://where.your.graphic-is/folder/filename.gif align=right>

piece o' cake.

ps. actually you could cheat and try mass changing the []s in your description to <>s - because tags like <b> and <i> are older versions of the <strong> and <em> . technically they aren't valid tags anymore, but they should still work in browsers. Not all BBCode tags will convert, for example the [ url= ] would have to change to <a href= > but still, not too much work.

Actually, The Tain uses the Markdown language for formatting not HTML.

HTML may work, but we do not encourage it, since it limits the portability of the descriptions (html standards change, etc).

Markdown is a better solution. More information here:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Myrd wrote:Actually, The Tain uses the Markdown language for formatting not HTML.

HTML may work, but we do not encourage it, since it limits the portability of the descriptions (html standards change, etc).

Markdown is a better solution. More information here:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Ah, my mistake. I didn't actually look up the Tain's marking language of choice - just responded from the question about how/why bbcode and html are different.