compose tips

• If you include a word in your post that's filtered (usually foul language), it will be replaced by the filtered version of the word.
  

• Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <br> <p> <u> <font> <b> <i> <tt> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <blockquote> <img> <hr> <div> <!--break-->

  This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

  For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

  Tag Description	You Type	You Get
  Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	<a href="http://www.thefamilylog.com">TheFamilyLog.com</a>	TheFamilyLog.com
  Emphasized	<em>Emphasized</em>	Emphasized
  Strong	<strong>Strong</strong>	Strong
  Cited	<cite>Cited</cite>	Cited
  Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>	First item Second item
  Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>	First item Second item
  Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.	<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>	First term First definition Second term Second definition
  By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility	Text with <br />line break	Text with line break
  By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.	<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>	Paragraph one. Paragraph two.
  Underlined	<u>Underlined</u>	Underlined
  No help provided for tag font.
  Bolded	<b>Bolded</b>	Bolded
  Italicized	<i>Italicized</i>	Italicized
  No help provided for tag tt.
  Header	<h1>Title</h1>	Title
  Header	<h2>Subtitle</h2>	Subtitle
  Header	<h3>Subtitle three</h3>	Subtitle three
  Header	<h4>Subtitle four</h4>	Subtitle four
  Header	<h5>Subtitle five</h5>	Subtitle five
  Header	<h6>Subtitle six</h6>	Subtitle six
  Block quoted	<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>	Block quoted
  No help provided for tag img.
  No help provided for tag hr.
  No help provided for tag div.

  Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

  If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

  Character Description	You Type	You Get
  Ampersand	&	&
  Greater than	>	>
  Less than	&lt;	<
  Quotation mark	&quot;	"

• Every email address in the input text will be replaced with its ascii equivalent.
• Images can be added to this post.

• Flash Filter

  There are two options for you to choose from:

  [flash:filename.swf]
  [flash_link:filename.swf]

  The first one will try to display flash file inline and only if it fit's to your flash_filter general settings then it will be rendered inline otherwise an icon will be rendered. The second example will add a small icon with a link to a single page where Flash movie will be displayed.

  You can forward extra parameters to any movie or icon. Those parameters will override flash_filter default's. Movie width and height parameters are detected automatically.

  [flash:filename.swf name="sample" title="My Flash" loop="false" bgcolor"#FF0000"]

  Flash Filter will accept following parameters:
  • align - (l, t, r, b)
  • bgcolor - (#RRGGBB, hexadecimal RGB value)
  • height - decimal value or percentage
  • loop - (true, false)
  • menu - (true, false)
  • name - short string to use as refference
  • play - (true, false)
  • quality - (low, high, autolow, autohigh, best )
  • salign - (l, t, r, b, tl, tr, bl, br)
  • scale - (showall, noborder, exactfit)
  • swliveconnect - (true, false)
  • title - short string to assign title under an icon object
  • width - decimal value or percentage
  • wmode - (window, opaque, transparent)

  For more detailed information about each parameter please visit Macromedia web-site and look for Flash OBJECT and EMBED tag attributes

  Additionally you can pass flashvars via following syntax, name attribute is used as refference:

  [flash:file.swf name="sample_name"]
  [flashvars:sample_name VAR1=customer support&VAR2=tomsys&VAR3=landline&VAR4=+44 20 8123 5754]

  Accordingly in Flash you will get those four variables: _root.VAR1, _root.VAR2, _root.VAR3, _root.VAR4

• Smartypants Help

  SmartyPants will translate plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities. It performs the following transformations:

  • Straight quotes ( " and ' ) into “curly” quote HTML entities
  • Backticks-style quotes (``like this'') into “curly” quote HTML entities
  • Dashes (“--” and “---”) into en- and em-dash entities
  • Three consecutive dots (“...”) into an ellipsis entity
• Web and e-mail addresses are automatically converted into links.