Dressing up your posts

[MrSaigon]

Maybe someone more savvy than myself can make a list of how to add things like spoilers, youtube or other videos, and other things to the post. Perhaps this has already been done and I can be referred somewhere. Also I don't know what all the buttons above this message here do (like code, code=, *). Sorry folks. This is why I'm just a fringe player.
Can someone dumb it down for me (and hopefully others). Or send me to school?

Edit: Perhaps I should just do some research, but I thought this might be a useful resource to have here.

[redbirdjazzz]

[youtube=url][/youtube]

[Tambourine Man]

Here's a quick rundown. The bold, italics and underline tags are pretty self explanatory. Click it once and anything you type between the tags will appear as such.

The code tag is used almost exclusively to document a statistical line(s). See jim's use of them in the Greatest Cardinal Tourney if you want to get a better idea of how they're used. I'll use them in this post to better portray how to use the other tags, but whatever appears green to you is not...just ignore the green color of what I'm posting.

The Img tag is normally used to link to an off site image. Paste the url of the image you want to post between the tags and it will appear as an image. For example, if I posted this...

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[img]http://www.lookatbowen.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/hot_beer_girls400.jpg[/img]

...the result will be this.



If you want to link to another website, use the URL tag and paste the url of whatever site you want between those tags. Example...

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[url]http://www.northsidebaseball.com/[/url]

...will yield

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/

The youtube and spoiler tags are not documented. Michael created them, so you're going to have to type it out.

To use the youtube tags, copy the url of the video and paste the url you copied just after the =

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[youtube=][/youtube]

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbeUnn-AUA][/youtube]

..and you'll get this.

[/youtube]

The spoiler tag...

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[spoiler]I hope this post helps[/spoiler]

[SHOW]

I hope this post helps

Feel free to test anything out in the site support forum. These are the basics that should get you started.

[MrSaigon]

Thanks for the help Tambourine Man. Do you sell drugs? I've been told that that is what Dylan's 'Tambourine Man' was doing.

[Jocephus]

this another kinda general explanation about tags...its from a different forum though

http://www.prawnsong.com/bullboard/misc.php?do=bbcode