W H A T I S P F F C O D E ?
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PFF Code is a variation on the HTML tags you may already be familiar with.
Basically, it allows you to add functionality or style to your message that
would normally require HTML coding. Here's a summary of the codes available
on Pennock's Fiero Forum:
URL Hyperlinking
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There are a few ways to create hyperlinks on PFF. The
easiest way is to simply paste an URL in your message. The forums software will automatically
convert it to a link for you. For example, typing these URLs in your message:
http://www.fieroforum.com
www.fiero.nl
will automatically render them as links:
Notice that you can either include or omit the "http://" part of the address.
If the site does not begin with "www", you must use the complete "http://" address. In other words,
"pda.fieroforum.com" will not be automatically converted to a link, "http://pda.fieroforum.com" will. Also,
you may use https and ftp URL prefixes.
The second way is to enclose a URL in the [url] ... [/url] tags, like this:
[url]http://www.fieroforum.com[/url]
To create true hyperlinks, use the [url=link] ... [/url] tags:
[url=http://www.fieroforum.com]Click here for PFF's Main Page[/url]
This will result in:
The forum software also ensures the link is opened in a new window whenever somebody clicks on it.
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Email Links
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To create a clickable email link (one that opens a user's email program when clicked),
enclose the email address in the [email] ... [/email] tags:
[email]administrator@fieroforum.com[/email]
Inside your message, this will be rendered as:
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Font Styles (Bold, Italics, Underline and Strike-through)
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To change a font's style, encase the text in either of the font style tags:
[b]This is bold.[/b]
[i]This is italics.[/i]
[u]This is underlined.[/u]
[strike]This is strike-through.[/strike]
Inside your message, this will be rendered as:
This is bold.
This is italics.
This is underlined.
This is strike-through.
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Font Sizes
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You can change a font's size by encasing a text in [size=size] ... [/size] tags:
[size=1]This is small print.[/size]
[size=2]This is normal print.[/size]
[size=3]And this is large print.[/size]
This will be rendered as:
This is small print.
This is normal print.
And this is large print.
As you can see, there are only three sizes (1, 2 and 3) to choose from. Any other size will be ignored.
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Font Color
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To change the color of a text, encase the text in [color=color] ... [/color] tags:
[color=Red]This is red.[/color]
[color=DarkOrange]This is dark orange.[/color]
[color=#CB80AA]And this is some other pretty color.[/color]
This produces:
This is red.
This is dark orange.
And this is some other pretty color.
You can either use one of the many predefined HTML colors (for instance "Red", "Blue", "DarkOrange", etc.)
or a hexidecimal HTML color (for instance, "#FFFFFF").
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Font Face
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To change the font face of a text, encase the text in [font=face] ... [/font] tags:
[font=Times New Roman]This is Times New Roman.[/font]
[font=Comic Sans MS]This is Comic Sans MS.[/font]
This produces:
This is Times New Roman.
This is Comic Sans MS.
Please be aware that different (operating) systems have different font faces installed. If you specify a font face that is not available
on a user's computer, it will render in the default font.
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Superscript and Subscript
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To raise (superscript) or lower (subscript) text, encase the text in either
[sup] ... [/sup] or [sub] ... [/sub] tags:
I'm away on the 4[sup]th[/sup] of July.
The equation would be: t[sub]d[/sub]=v[sup]2[/sup].R[sub]t[/sub]
This produces:
I'm away on the 4th of July.
The equation would be: td=v2.Rt
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Centering Text and Images
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To center a block of text (and/or images), encase the text in
the [center] ... [/center] tags:
[center]This text is centered.[/center]
This produces:
This text is centered.
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Bulleted Lists
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You can easily create either "bulleted" lists, or "ordered" list.
A bulleted list is enclosed by the [list] ... [/list] tags, with each list item preceded by a [*]
tag:
Sample bulleted list:
[list]
[*]This is the first item in the list.
[*]This is the second item.
[*]And this is the last.
[/list]
This will be rendered as:
Sample bulleted list:
- This is the first item in the list.
- This is the second item.
- And this is the last.
To create an ordered list (instead of bullets, you get numbers or letters), use the
[list=A] ... [/list] or [list=1] ... [/list] tags:
Sample ordered list (numbers):
[list=1]
[*]This is the first item in the list.
[*]This is the second item.
[*]And this is the last.
[/list]
Sample ordered list (letters):
[list=A]
[*]This is the first item in the list.
[*]This is the second item.
[*]And this is the last.
[/list]
This results in:
Sample ordered list (numbers):
- This is the first item in the list.
- This is the second item.
- And this is the last.
Sample ordered list (letters):
- This is the first item in the list.
- This is the second item.
- And this is the last.
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Adding Images
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To add an image to your message, encase the URL of the image in the
[img] ... [/img] tags:
[img]http://www.fiero.nl/htmlgraphics/pfflogo_bw.gif[/img]
This produces:
Please be aware that the image needs to reside somewhere on the internet already. You can not link to a local image on your harddisk.
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Quote Box
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To place text inside a quote box, encase the URL of the image in the
[quote] ... [/quote] tags:
[quote]Ask not what your country can do for you...
Ask what you can do for your country.[/quote]
This will be rendered as:
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Ask not what your country can do for you...
Ask what you can do for your country. |
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Preformatted Text
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By default, PFF uses a proportional spaced font for displaying messages. Also, all
leading spaces on a line will be replaced by a single space. This means that when you enter something like this:
for( i = 0; i < strlen( szCode ); i++ ) {
szCode[ i ] += 2;
if( i % 2 ) {
szCode[ i ]<<1;
}
}
}
It will be rendered like this:
for( i = 0; i < strlen( szCode ); i++ ) {
szCode[ i ] += 2;
if( i % 2 ) {
szCode[ i ]<<1;
}
}
}
If you need to preserve the original formatting of a text,
you can either use the [pre] ... [/pre] or the [code] ... [/code] tags. The
difference between the two is that the [code] tags places the text inside a "code box" (see example). Also, the [pre]
tags are experimental and won't always work properly:
[code]
for( i = 0; i < strlen( szCode ); i++ ) {
szCode[ i ] += 2;
if( i % 2 ) {
szCode[ i ]<<1;
}
}
}
[/code]
This results in:
Code:
for( i = 0; i < strlen( szCode ); i++ ) {
szCode[ i ] += 2;
if( i % 2 ) {
szCode[ i ]<<1;
}
}
}
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YouTube
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You can embed videos from YouTube in your post. To do so,
click the "Share" button below the video on YouTube, copy the URL that appears and place it between [youtube] ... [/youtube] tags:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTWW7d2T6CQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/uTWW7d2T6CQ[/youtube]
The forum software will automatically replace this with the proper HTML code to embed the video in your
post:
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Hide content
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Some content you wish to post may not be appropriate for all ages,
may be "Not Safe For Work" (NSFW) of may contain spoilers. You can have this automatically replaced by the
forum software for a "Click to show" link. When you click the link, the contents will be revealed.
Clicking the revealed contents, and it will be replaced for the "Click to show" link again. To
do so, just place the contents between [hide] ... [/hide] tags:
Spoiler alert: [hide]The butler did it![/hide]
The below image might hurt your eyes!
[hide][img]http://www.fiero.nl/gallery/Mods/fieromud.jpg[/img][/hide]
This results in:
Spoiler alert: The butler did it!Click to show
The below image might hurt your eyes!
Click to show
You can change the default "Click to show" text by adding the new text to the first [hide] tag:
What's the best car ever: [hide="Click for the obvious answer"]A Fiero of course![/hide]
This will render as:
What's the best car ever: A Fiero of course!Click for the obvious answer
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