I like to make things more interesting and look nicer in my AARs by the use of different fonts, font sizes and colors. But I can't memorize all the types, so I thought to myself, why don't I make a reference so I can check each of them without trying them out. I also thought others may be interested. So, here it is.
EDIT: As per Surume's suggestion, I included the HTML tag's used for the effects, and I also added some more stuff you can do with different tags.
Size
HTML tag:
Where X is an integer from 1 to 7.
Size 1
Size 2 (That's the default.)
Size 3
Size 4
Size 5
Size 6
Size 7
(Using a number larger than 7 with the tag will result in size 7.)
Color
HTML tag:
Where Color-name is valid color-name string. You can use one of the following names from the drop-down menu:
First row:
black
dieanna
darkolivegreen
darkgreen
darkslateblue
navy
indigo
darkslategray
Second row:
darkred
darkorange
olive
green
teal
blue
slategray
dimgray
Third row:
red
sandybrown
yellowgreen
seagreen
mediumtorquoise
royalblue
purple
gray
Fourth row:
magenta
orange
yellow
lime
cyan
deepskyblue
darkorchid
silver
Fifth row:
pink
wheat
lemonchiffon
palegreen
paleturquoise
lightblue
plum
white
You can also use other colors found on this list. I use gold a lot, but lightsalmon for example looks aweful in my opinion Also note that adult males can only diferentiate between about 16 colors.
For colors, the default depends on which part of the forum you are on at the moment, because it depends on the background color. Links have different colors (which overwrites the set color!).
Fonts
HTML tag:
Where Font-name is any string from the list below.
Actually, that is the most important one. You actually get an example for size and for the 40 "built-in" colors, but not for the fonts. So here they are:
Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Book Antiqua
Century Gothic
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Fixedsys
Franklin Gothic Medium
Garamond
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode
Microsoft Sans Serif
Palatino Linotype
System
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana (This is the default.)
Word formating
You can also use Italic, Underlined and Bold letters/words. The HTML-tags are as follows:
Paragraph formating
You can adjust on which side a paragraph is shown:
Tha HTML-tags are:
Note here that you can only use these for paragraphs. If you add such a tag in the middle of a paragraph, the forum engine will automatically put a new line at that point, so you can't force one part of the text to the left and the other part to the right!
@Forum Admins/Developers: By the way, if it would be possible, I would highly appreciate a "JUSTIFY" text positioning tag!
Other stuff
There are other tags you can use. Here are the ones I know of.
CODE allows you to put formated text into your writing (although it looks kinda stupid, so not the best method) and none of the forum engine's own formating will mess things up (like deleting every spaces from the beginning of a line). You can see the results above. You can even put CODE blocks inside CODE blocks, so I can't show the HTML tag in a CODE block. The syntax is the same as for every other tag, without parameters. Like the bold letters, except you don't type B within the []-s, but CODE instead.
QUOTE can be used with or without a parameter.
LIST is used to (guess what) list different items. There are two versions that I know of: with "1" as the parameter and with no parameter (or anything else as a parameter I guess...). The HTML-tag is:
But this is only the frame of the list. You will need to separate the items by a [*] tag.
Here's an example with no parameter:
INDENT is used to push text to the right a bit. (Sorry, I can't really explain it any better ) This, again, is a text-formating tag, so it will effect the entire paragraph. I never really found any good use for it, but that's probably just me. Here's an example:
EDIT: As per Surume's suggestion, I included the HTML tag's used for the effects, and I also added some more stuff you can do with different tags.
Size
HTML tag:
Code:
[SIZE="X"]Text to be re-sized[/SIZE]
Size 1
Size 2 (That's the default.)
Size 3
Size 4
Size 5
Size 6
Size 7
(Using a number larger than 7 with the tag will result in size 7.)
Color
HTML tag:
Code:
[COLOR="Color-name"]Text to be re-colored[/COLOR]
First row:
black
dieanna
darkolivegreen
darkgreen
darkslateblue
navy
indigo
darkslategray
Second row:
darkred
darkorange
olive
green
teal
blue
slategray
dimgray
Third row:
red
sandybrown
yellowgreen
seagreen
mediumtorquoise
royalblue
purple
gray
Fourth row:
magenta
orange
yellow
lime
cyan
deepskyblue
darkorchid
silver
Fifth row:
pink
wheat
lemonchiffon
palegreen
paleturquoise
lightblue
plum
white
You can also use other colors found on this list. I use gold a lot, but lightsalmon for example looks aweful in my opinion Also note that adult males can only diferentiate between about 16 colors.
For colors, the default depends on which part of the forum you are on at the moment, because it depends on the background color. Links have different colors (which overwrites the set color!).
Fonts
HTML tag:
Code:
[FONT="Font-name]Text to be re-sized[/FONT]
Actually, that is the most important one. You actually get an example for size and for the 40 "built-in" colors, but not for the fonts. So here they are:
Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Book Antiqua
Century Gothic
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Fixedsys
Franklin Gothic Medium
Garamond
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode
Microsoft Sans Serif
Palatino Linotype
System
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana (This is the default.)
Word formating
You can also use Italic, Underlined and Bold letters/words. The HTML-tags are as follows:
Code:
[I]Italic[/I]; [U]Underlined[/U]; [B]Bold[/B]
Paragraph formating
You can adjust on which side a paragraph is shown:
Left-side
Center
Right-side
Tha HTML-tags are:
Code:
[LEFT]Left-side[/LEFT]
[CENTER]Center[/CENTER]
[RIGHT]Right-side[/RIGHT]
Note here that you can only use these for paragraphs. If you add such a tag in the middle of a paragraph, the forum engine will automatically put a new line at that point, so you can't force one part of the text to the left and the other part to the right!
@Forum Admins/Developers: By the way, if it would be possible, I would highly appreciate a "JUSTIFY" text positioning tag!
Other stuff
There are other tags you can use. Here are the ones I know of.
CODE allows you to put formated text into your writing (although it looks kinda stupid, so not the best method) and none of the forum engine's own formating will mess things up (like deleting every spaces from the beginning of a line). You can see the results above. You can even put CODE blocks inside CODE blocks, so I can't show the HTML tag in a CODE block. The syntax is the same as for every other tag, without parameters. Like the bold letters, except you don't type B within the []-s, but CODE instead.
QUOTE can be used with or without a parameter.
The result will look similar to the CODE block, except it won't be formated. The paramter can be either a string (ie. a sequence of characters, like "Slan"), or a string and a number separated by a semicolon (. This is an example of QUOTE without a parameter.
Slan said:This is an example of QUOTE with only a string as a parameter. Note that the engine says "Originally posted by ...", so it won't really work for quoting Hitler for example. Or at least not in any serious sense...
If you want to quote historical people, I would either suggest using the parameterless version and adding in the quoted person's name after the quote, separated with a '-', or simply leaving out the entire QUOTE tag, and using Italics instead.This is an example of QUOTE with a string and a number. The string is the name of the quoted, just like above, and the number is the ID of the post you are quoting. Again, this is meant for in-forum quoting, not historical people.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. EisenhowerBetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
LIST is used to (guess what) list different items. There are two versions that I know of: with "1" as the parameter and with no parameter (or anything else as a parameter I guess...). The HTML-tag is:
Code:
[LIST][/LIST]
Here's an example with no parameter:
- First item.
- Second item.
- Third item.
- First item.
- Second item.
- Third item.
INDENT is used to push text to the right a bit. (Sorry, I can't really explain it any better ) This, again, is a text-formating tag, so it will effect the entire paragraph. I never really found any good use for it, but that's probably just me. Here's an example:
This text is a bit to the right compared to the rest.
As you can see above, this will also increase the space between lines, which is exactly why I don't find it usefull. I would use it to put the first line of a paragraph a bit to the right, to make paragraphs more recognisable (we use it for books around here, and it makes wonders!), but it doesn't work like that.This is even more to the right.
And this is even more.
To illustrate the above statement, here's some longer text, which will overflow to the next line, so you will see that the entire paragraph is pushed to the right. I guess the only proper use for this "INDENT" tag is for quotes. For example, Wikipedia uses this to that effect.
There's a 'Decrease Indent' button on the interface, but it does nothing as far as I understand...
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