How I use Forum???

[daniel_gudman]

Because there's something I want to do, and I'm confident I know it can be done, but I don't know the syntax; and searching on google was not productive.

I will lead by example, but I figure if other people also have questions about how to do syntax specific things inside a forum post, then it would be good to have them somewhere.

Maybe it's presumptious of me but w/e.



What confounds me:

What I want to do is, link to a specific post inside a thread, not just the thread itself. I knew how to do this on Invisionfree but not here.

Stick this in the front end of a [universal resource locator] tag and it will link to the beginning of the thread. I get how to do this.

url = http://thefanfictionforum.net/showthread.php?tid=19381

What I want to do is append another bit of code or something, so that it will pull that post to the top of the loaded page.

url = http://thefanfictionforum.net/showthread.php?tid=19381&pid=1148190

Nothing I've tried worked like I wanted. How do I do this on icyboards???

 

[Vexarian]

Does this work

If so, you just need to add "#pid[numbers]" to the end of the url.

 

[Shirotsume]

To the right of a post on Default Light, you'll see a text that says something along the lines of Post: #3

Right click on that link, choose copy link address. This is your link address to paste.

You can also click that link, and then just copy it from your address bar.

 

[NuitTombee]

To the right of a post on Default Light, you'll see a text that says something along the lines of Post: #3

Right click on that link, choose copy link address. This is your link address to paste.

You can also click that link, and then just copy it from your address bar.

This is true for both themes.

 

[daniel_gudman]

Thanks for the quick help guys.

I didn't know the post counter was a hyperlink.

 

[ArchfiendRai]

Yeah, it took me forever to get that even on the old TFF (it worked there as well). We don't have a lot of need to use that feature. Or at least I usually don't.

 

[daniel_gudman]

Once again I have posted a Chart of metrics for a fanfiction because I am nutty. Anyway there are two questions I have about this.

1) I'm not getting the image to post the size I want it to ("bigger and more legible"). How can I fix that?

2) Can we attach files to posts? It looks like the board has that function but I don't know if it's enabled, and if it is, how I attach stuff.

 

[NuitTombee]

1) I'm not getting the image to post the size I want it to ("bigger and more legible"). How can I fix that?

The board automatically resizes images to a certain width/height. The most you could do is link it, or link the image to a larger image.

 

[daniel_gudman]

I can't get the TABLE tags to work. Like, I copypasta test code from the wikipedia page or whatever and it gets treated like it's not even code.

But the LIST tags work just fine, so....

Anybody have some advice?

 

[NuitTombee]

I'm not sure we have a working table tag implemented. If we did it may have gone the way of the dodo when html was disabled/restricted.

 

[PCHeintz72]

I'm not sure we have a working table tag implemented. If we did it may have gone the way of the dodo when html was disabled/restricted.

I do not know about this forum software, I know though I have encountered it before where forum based BBCode is not fully supporting specific functionality the language itself does.

The problem is most forums do not implement the entire BBCode language, which is actually fairly extensive, all things considered. But custom variant subsets of the language set. The forums also do not enforce proper BBCode syntax but do also allow for autocorrecting some user mistakes in syntax. I've seen issues with tables, multiple or cascading lists, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, some oddities with spacing have also occurred over the years, and a few other items.

Twice I've actually had to adjust or tweak my own BBCode auto generated code my program produces to be equally friendly to all BBCode based forums I post my lists to. Despite the fact in each case the full blown BBCode offline editor that supports the full language was fine with it as it was.

I call these custom forum variants the 'Relaxed' BBCode standards.


From the BBCode.ORG site itself:

Doesn't work?

Remember that bbcode tags are implemented to varying degrees and that with many variations. None of this represents strict standards.