Useful codes in the forums?


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  • #95135 Reply
    Jack

      What are some useful codes one could use in the forums? I know of the tag but what is the tag for making an indent and what is the code for making a text bold?

      #95136 Reply
      Jack

        oh great I messed up instantly, well you see, let me know some useful tags 🙂

        #95314 Reply
        Clark

          I use:

          ’em’ tags, emphasis, to get italics.
          ‘strong’ tags to get bold.
          ‘a’ tags to get a link.

          I think I’ve used ‘strike’ tags successfully.

          The forum software removes most tags. I suppose you could try the “Allowed HTML”, in red under Craig’s posts, just above the comment form, but the Forums might have different rules. I suppose you could try them on this thread.

          #95329 Reply
          ET

            I try to use some of the “allowed HTML” tags but seem to get them wrong most of the time. Especially the quote tags. Sometime ago in another thread (climate denialist thread) one of the mods showed how to use the link tags by citing examples. Something similar for the other tags would be good. However, I am aware that such things take up valuable time.

            #95653 Reply
            Jack

              Anyone know the tag for making a blockquote or a tag with the similar effect?

              #95832 Reply
              ET

                If mods have any time would it be possible to make a post showing how the quote tags are used. Or someone else if they know. When I try I mess them up. I notice that often mods tidy up posts and fix quotes especially (and my grammatical errors, thanks). It might save time in the long run if you could show us how.

                #95835 Reply
                Clark

                  ET, I think I’ve used blockquote – slash-blockquote successfully, but I don’t use it because it strips out the blank lines I type to make paragraphs more distinct.

                  I wrote above (#95314) that I thought I’d used strike – slash-strike successfully, but when I tried using them recently (towards the end of this comment), upon posting they displayed just as I’d typed them. A moderator later turned them into proper strike-through formatting.

                  #95836 Reply
                  ET

                    Similar has happened to me. I spend time researching what the proper format should be but I still get it wrong. I’ve got the links down (mostly) thanks to mods post in the climate denialist thread. I’d like to work out the proper formatting for quotes and save mods having to correct it for me.

                    #97153 Reply
                    Jack

                      Hey Mod feel free to name the tag for making blockquotes, it must be taking some unnecessary time for you to edit all those comments in the forums.

                      Best!

                      #98548 Reply
                      Jack

                        Great that formatting codes is added now but what is the proper code to use for getting this block-quote-type of result one see in this comment? (Obviously it is not the B-Quote code since that embolden the text and create a straight line to the left of the text):
                        https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/breaking-news-gaza-only/page/22/#post-98546

                        #98621 Reply
                        AG

                          THE INTERCEPT limited access:

                          Is it just me or are they limiting access to those who register with their emails?
                          Is Mr. Billionaire moving his wealth somewhere else now?

                          #98622 Reply
                          AG

                            p.s. archive.is being blocked too, so it seems. Which is a problem because in the past THE INTERCEPT was one of the few I did NOT archive by default. Darn…

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