posted on September 28, 2000 07:46:51 PM
I agree!! I've gritched about this before, months and months ago.
I'll go a little further. I really think that the lack of a link that gives these codes (and other info, see next paragraph) is an indication of poor AW attitude toward message board users.
Pray tell, what am I getting at? Take a look at the index on the "Help" page:
posted on September 28, 2000 11:10:18 PM
UBB is coded just like HTML is except you do not enclose your commands with greater-than and less-than brackets like < and >. Instead, you use left and right square brackets like [ and ].
Rule 1
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NO spaces between a command or end command and the text
Rule 2
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The end command MUST NOT be placed after a Carriage Return. That means, if you have two (2) paragraphs separated by a Carriage Return (line break), you'll have to use the command on both paragraphs.
Example: [command]The Sky is Blue. And so am I.[/endcommand]
OR . . .
[command]The Sky is Blue.[/endcommand]
[command]And so am I.[/endcommand]
Rule 3
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UBB is not case-sensitive, so you can use either upper or lower-cases at your leisure.
List of commands used on AW (that I know of). NOTE that I intentionally put a space between the left square bracket [ and the EndCommand for each example. Otherwise, the code would run and you would only see its effect.
BOLD is [b]your text here[ /b]
Italicized is [i]your text here[ /i]
To put a link in your post to another web site is [url]your link here[ /url]
To put an image into your post you use [img]your image's url[ /img]
To put an e-mail link into a post, it's [email][email protected][ /email]
Here is a link to a simple web page on the subject of UBB codes:
posted on September 29, 2000 11:28:07 AM
Very basic UBB Codes:
but use [ ] instead of { }
Bold {b} {/b}
Italics {i} {/i}
URL {URL}typetheaddress{/URL}
Image {IMG}typetheaddress{/IMG}
(To find URL of you pic, go to where you host your images, select pic (if using AW, click on thumb-print to open it full), RIGHT-CLICK anywhere on opened pic; from drop-down flag, select propeties; in the middle of new screen will be the address (URL), starting with http://etc.... Hightlight it completely, right-click, and select COPY..Then you can PASTE it on your posts here, using the code listed above for Images).
