I am excessively pleased to announce that some new BBCodes are being added. You may notice new options beginning to appear next to the other BBCode button shortcuts.
At this point, the actual names of the codes (as they appear on the shortcuts, and how they are typed manually) can be changed. Shorter is better, and I'm open to suggestions as to what to call them. Best to do it sooner rather than later, because once they change, any posts with the old names will no longer display the code, properly, until the names are also changed in that post, naturally.
Columns! This awesome code allows us some new presentation options. It may be a little tricky to figure out how to get it to do what you want at first, but just playing around with it, it becomes apparent pretty quick where you put the division line to designate which chunk of text should be on what side.
It allows you to put content into two columns to have it appear side by side. Each column is its own region, so you select text from one side or the other individually. You can also place images in one of the columns to be partnered up with some text. This might be especially handy for people who have artistic characters and want to describe a picture more in depth right next to it.
For example, the image to the left is using both the img code (OBVIOUSLY) and the align-center code. Pretty much anything you can do in a post normally, you can do within a column code * (See below for exceptions). Feel free to use this thread to experiment and play around with the new codes being introduced here. The only "restriction" that I suggest for the column code is to be mindful of the size of images you use in it, as it could quickly turn into one of those crazy post-exploding scroll issues. That's the case anyway, but it could happen twice as fast using columns!
My hope is that this will prove a helpful formatting option for IC and OOC purposes alike, to give out forum some more dynamic ways of presenting information. So, enjoy!
* Exceptions:
The vertical line "|" cannot be used within col code, since that is the character it uses to differentiate sides. Sadly, another column code cannot be nested within a column for maximum column inception.
This is one of the styles of expandable spoilers that is being added. So named because it looks just like the normal quote box, but is hideable! You can do just about anything in the hquote that you can do outside of the code.
LIKE ADD COLUMNS!
WHAT MADNESS (But you can't nest another hquote within itself. )
But, you can add pictures! So if you're posting a bunch of screenshots, you can nest them into a single hquote, or put each in their own.
The "More / Less" is set and unfortunately cannot be customized on the fly. But I'm taking suggestions for alternate words for the expand/hide options.
In case the button doesn't meet your fancy, or in case there is a need to differentiate between types of expandable content.
Hilariously, you can nest different styles of spoiler quotes.
The "Show/Hide" is set and unfortunately cannot be customized on the fly. But I'm taking suggestions for alternate words for the expand/hide options.
• The best version
This is ex, for expandable. It's pretty much the same as hquote2, except you can set a custom title for it just like you would in a normal quote code. There is a button, but we don't actually have the image installed for it, so it's just blank. (I honestly prefer that, it makes it much more trim and unobtrusive!) The other reason I like this one is that it isn't tied to the color scheme of the quote code, which means a nice, clean black background for the expanded window.
The custom title can't have punctuation marks in it, unfortunately. For instance, it won't allow you label it something like, "Character's training screenies" because of the apostrophe. But spaces are ok!
As with the others, you can next different styles of expandable codes, but not the same one within itself.
I'm intending to utilize these for the new FAQs that are being collated and answered, to help with forum organization, and of course, to help make any sort of IC things more organized and pretty, also! The expandable codes are ideal for any long lists that are boring as hell, but good to have reference of. For example, factions could keep track of a list of supplies without it scrolling on for miles; just could just open the expandable section to peek at what's there, as needed.
As with the others, I highly advocate the use of these for putting chat logs, screenshots, and other such things into to make things tidier and easier to sift through, without having to also link to an external place!
And, of course, you can customize the text within all of the expandable/quote codes.
_________________ Aernoud Van Brabant: Heir of the House. Proprietor of the Beer Wagon. "Go to the Mayfields, have a pint, and wait for this to blow over." Aurelius: Sunmaster of Amaunator. Contemplative. Aspirant to Transcendance. "Sol Invictus"
"Operating in the border between light and darkness, shadowdancers are nimble artists of deception. They are mysterious and unknown, never completely trusted but always inducing wonder when met"
For when you just really gotta make a really intense statement. Color is still up for debate, although it's most likely to end up in the yellow-orange color of the forum theme. Can be used for headers, making "seriously, read this, it's super official" posts, or the like! This could also be a nice alternative option to making IC sections of quotes, instead of using the grey-background quotes like many of us do now.
Those are the new codes. As mentioned, feel free to play around with them and test them in this thread, but I don't recommend using them in common use until we've decided on what we'd like them to be named, to save from having to make edits.
The code names are currently (in order of their posted appearance):
_________________ Whomst've'll'd'mn't I play: Salema Nefahri::A penny for your thots Zrae'a'stra'fryn::That which nightmares are made of Khasir::From the East a storm is coming
FALSE ALARM. RETURN TO YOUR SEATS. I did some computer wizardry and it's fine now. That wizardry was closing certain Java app that vacuum the RAM like a black hole and I didn't notice before.
Loving this! Don't suppose we'd be able to also get YouTube video embedding? Or would that be too much?
Would that have any adverse effect on people with slower connections, like a page with several images does?
I would also only be in favor of that if it could be somehow limited to the Off-Topic forum and nowhere else.
I come from a forum with this feature and it affects people with slow net, so we have a one embed limit
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"Operating in the border between light and darkness, shadowdancers are nimble artists of deception. They are mysterious and unknown, never completely trusted but always inducing wonder when met"
Loving this! Don't suppose we'd be able to also get YouTube video embedding? Or would that be too much?
Would that have any adverse effect on people with slower connections, like a page with several images does?
I would also only be in favor of that if it could be somehow limited to the Off-Topic forum and nowhere else.
I come from a forum with this feature and it affects people with slow net, so we have a one embed limit
Eih, honestly if that's the case, I'd rather just not worry about it, since it would only be used in off-topic anyway and is just as easy to link something.
fear of machinery, fear of aging, fear of madness, fear of fresh air, fear of magic, fear of materialism, fear of alcohol, fear of loneliness, fear of meat, fear of amphibians such as frogs, toads and newts, fear of marriage, fear of medicine, fear of amnesia, fear of making change or moving, fear of the woods, fear of medicine, fear of animals, fear of memories, fear of men, fear of women, fear of menstruation, fear of animal skin, fear of anger, fear of ants and anthills, fear of metal, fear of asymmetrical objects, fear of mice, fear of the mind, fear of mirrors, fear of oxen and cattle, fear of horses, fear of being attacked, fear of auroral lights, fear of missiles, fear of bacteria, fear of germs, fear of bathing, fear of baldness, fear of mother-in-law, fear of the moon, fear of monsters, fear of fathers, fear of beards, fear of mothers, fear of burglars, fear of going to bed, fear of being beaten, fear of moths, fear of mushrooms, fear of beggars, fear of bees, fear of music, fears of myths, fear of being evaluated negatively in public places, fear of bearing a deformity or bearing someone with a deformity, fear of birds, fear of narrowness,
fear of the color black, fear of needles, fear of blindness, fear of blood, fear of new things or ideas, fear of blushing, fear of body odor, fear of night, fear of noise, fear of dreaming, fear of books, fear of nosebleeds, fear of being bound or tied up, fear of bowel movements, fear of brain disease, fear of numbers, fear of bridges, fear of tall buildings, fear of objects, fear of sacred objects, fear of objects larger than you, fear of fast objects, fear of objects at the right side of your body, fear of pointed objects, fear of fear of being buried alive, fear of cancer, fear of cats, fear of cemeteries, fear of specific places, fear of public places, fear of other people's opinions, fear of otters, fear of outer space, fear of chemicals, fear of chickens, fear of childbirth, fear of pain, fear of old people, fear of paper, fear of chins, fear of parasites, fear of choking or being choked, fear of peanuts butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, fear of cholera, fear of clocks, fear of clothing, fear of performing, fear of places of worship, fear of clouds, fear of sex, fear of people, fear of people with amputations, fear of eye patches, fear of cold, fear of philosophy, fear of colors, fear of comets, fear of fears, fear of constipation, fear of plants, fear of contagious others, fear of cooking, fear of poetry,
fear of crossing the road, fear of consistently being poisoned, fear of politicians, fear of hurting others, fear of liquids, fear of dancing, fear of darkness, fear of poverty, fear of dawn, fear of corpses, fear of punishment, fear of decision making, fear of the color purple, fear of water, fear of kobolds and goblins, fear of depth, fear of rain, fear of dependence on others, fear of evil spirits, fear of relatives, fear of dinner conversations, fear of ceremonies, fear of reptiles, fear of responsibilities, fear of boats, fear of empty rooms, fear of dizziness, fear of doctors, fear of dogs, fear of Khemites, fear of dolls and children, fear of rust, fear of double vision, fear of dreams, fear of school, fear of scientific terms like amychphobia (being scratched) oneirogmophobia (wet dreams) scabiophobia (scabies) thalassophobia, (sea) xerophobia (dryness) amathophobia (dust) electrophobia (electric shock) emetophobia (vomitting) clostrophobia, (closed spaces) sciophobia (shadows) hamartophobia (sin) coprophobia (excrement) ostraconophobia (shellfish) ommatophobia (looking someone in the eye) thaasophobia (sitting down) cathisophobia (sitting still) textophobia (fabrics) kakorrhaphiophobia (failure or defeat) obesophobia (becoming fat) blennophobia (slime) pteronophobia (being tickled by feathers) chionophobia (snow) octophobia (8) pyrophobia (fire) laliophobia
FALSE ALARM. RETURN TO YOUR SEATS. I did some computer wizardry and it's fine now. That wizardry was closing certain Java app that vacuum the RAM like a black hole and I didn't notice before.
How do you not notice Minecraft
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Man, this account is over 10 years old. Where do I get my old man beard?
I didn't do anything about it! I copied the code exactly as it was made and presented by the PHP3 people, who made the code. They called it Collumn, so Collumn it is.
I didn't do anything about it! I copied the code exactly as it was made and presented by the PHP3 people, who made the code. They called it Collumn, so Collumn it is.
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I keep needing to find this thread again to refresh my memory on how to use the new BBCs properly under certain circumstances. Is this information placed in its own section now, or can we simply sticky this thread so it's easy to locate?
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Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Location: Somewhere near the Atlantic (I hope)
I would have noted some of them before I realized that the necessary information is actually provided by the tag shortcuts themselves above the text box when you make a post. Can I defend myself by noting that I've been working all night and it's an ungodly hour?
This is a valuable resource for the entire forum, not just me. Clearly you and the staff think so, too, or this thread wouldn't exist in the first place; the BBCodes would have simply appeared one day with perhaps a passing mention in Varia.
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