A Guide To Formatting Your Posts

northbanu

Thought I'd try and get this documented in one place. Sorry if this is the wrong place. :blushing:

A GUIDE TO FORMATTING YOUR POST

In all examples, replace the curly brackets ie: { } with square brackets [ ]
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To create italics use{i}This sentence should be italic.{/i}
Results in: This sentence should be italic.
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To create bold text: {b}This text should be bold. {/b}
Results in This text should be bold.
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To create underlined text: {u}This text should be underlined. {/u}
Results in This text should be underlined.

NOTE: To create a divider of sorts, like I've used in this post, just underline an underscore like this:
{u}__________________________________________________{/u}

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To create quoted text: {quote} This is quoted text. {/quote}
Results in

This is quoted text.

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To use a monospace font use: {code} This is a monospaced font. {/code}
Results in:

This is a monospaced font.

The text will always always be indented, and set apart from the rest of the text.
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NESTED TAGS

Bold Underline: {b}{u}This is bold underlined.{/u}{/b}
Results in: This is bold underlined.

Italic Underlined: {u}{i}This is underlind italics.{/i}{/u}
Results in: This is bold underlined.

Italic text doesn't play well with the bold tag. Go figure.
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To post gifs and other images: {img}http://i.imgur.com/6mExGZX.gif{/img]

Results in:


The text inside the tag must point to an image hosted somewhere on the internet (not your local computer), and that somewhere must allow image linking. There are many free sites dedicated to just that, many don't even require an account.
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THE TICKER

To put the ticker at the bottom of your posts:
To enable the ticker:
1) From the forums, click on "Settings"
2) Check "Show your MyFitnessPal ticker below each of your forum posts"

To customize your ticker:
1)From the website click on "Apps"
2)Then Click "Tickers"
3) Futz with stuff.

cycletrak1

Bump!

skiextrm

Thanks! You are my new hero!

heybales

Gotta remember that code method for monospaced type.
I'll have to see if MFP still fouls up the alignment anyway.

Great hints, thanks.

Alluminati

What about strike thru text? I could never make it work but have seen it used on here.

northbanu

What about strike thru text? I could never make it work but have seen it used on here.

Dunno. I know it's available in the blog area, but haven't been able to figure it out on here. I now that in a default phpBB installation, it is only available as a custom tag, and has to be specifically defined by the administrator. I'll try a few more, but I wish an admin would just post what tags are supported.

[strike] It's not simply strike, is it? [/strike]
[strikethrough]Maybe strikethrough[/strikethrough]
Couldn't be a plan old s?
[del]How about del?[/del]

Alluminati

What about strike thru text? I could never make it work but have seen it used on here.

Dunno. I know it's available in the blog area, but haven't been able to figure it out on here. I now that in a default phpBB installation, it is only available as a custom tag, and has to be specifically defined by the administrator. I'll try a few more, but I wish an admin would just post what tags are supported.

[strike] It's not simply strike, is it? [/strike]

Tried that and but neither worked. Thanks for the other tips though!

extraordinary_machine

tagging for later.

libbydoodle11

Thanks for the info, I am way too lazy to fuss with all of this stuff.

kimbelle_vie

Bump

camtosh

I was just wondering how to post a gif! thanks.

GrandmaJackie

GrandmaJackie

{b}{u}This is bold underlined.{/u}{/b}

coolraul07

I knew all except 'code', but bumping for others. Thanks for sharing the wealth.

2essie

???

cookeylady

still don't understand how to put the weight loss/to go. thingy on my profile

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jenilla1

Right on, man!

testingbillybob

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cookeylady

got it, thank you verrry much.

Karabobarra

I {b}FRIGGEN{/b} love this! Thank you

Karabobarra

Oh....lol

Got it

northbanu

Easy Ticker Links
Thanks emily_stew, for making me realize posted links would work. Duh. :bigsmile:

Activate the ticker:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/settings

Customize he ticker:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker/home

mockchoc

:sad: it's not working for me.

northbanu

:sad: it's not working for me.

Remember, change curly brackets in the example to square brackets. and all tags should be lower case.

i = italic
b = bold
u = underline
code = monospaced font

northbanu

Wow, this got stickied in record time!

Helpful post, OP!

Hehee

And thanks for posting that link to the ticker settings. Forehead slapping moment for me! :bigsmile:

jennifer_417

Bump and bookmarked.

ShinyFuture

Bump

lynn_glenmont

{b}{u}This is bold underlined.{/u}{/b}

You missed the part about changing the { and } to open and closed square brackets or braces [ ]
(OP had to sub something, otherwise MFP would have treated it as coding and it wouldn't have shown up in the post.)

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