forum code shortcuts

**bold** can also be done with putting ** on both sides of some text.

\\italic\\ can also be done with putting \\ (note that these are backslashes) on both sides of some text.

__underline__ uses two underscore characters (these: _ ).

^^big^^ uses ^^ (carats) on both sides.
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horizontal dividers (new) like the one above use three equals signs (=).

This should make typing formating codes a lot faster, assuming that you don't use those strange combinations of characters in normal conversation thereby reformatting your entire post.

Here's how to embed a link from a RS page to another page. I use this a lot to reference sequencemates to my cels that are on display in other RS galleries or, in a few cases, in offsite galleries.

I'm replacing the angle brackets with descriptions; otherwise the html language won't display.

This is how to link to
[angle bracket]a href="http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp" target="_blank" [angle bracket]the home page of my gallery [angle bracket]/a [close angle bracket]

Or in other words:
[angle bracket]a href="URL OF THE SITE YOU WANT TO LINK TO" target="_blank" [close angle bracket]
THE TEXT YOU WANT DISPLAYED IN THE LINK
[angle bracket]/a [close angle bracket]

Since more and more galleries are referencing sequence-mates, I thought this might be useful to post.

One small slip:


This is how to link to
[angle bracket]a href="http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp" target="_blank" [CLOSE angle bracket]the home page of my gallery [angle bracket]/a [close angle bracket]

Obviously, take out the line breaks, and replace [angle bracket] and [close angle bracket] with the actual symbols (which won't display in the forum), and it should work. I tried to include an example, but it didn't seem to work in the forum, although it does in my gallery.

I think you can display code if you use XMP in brackets then /XMP in brackets(even if it doesn't work in the forum it should work on a normal webpage). If HTML doesn't appear at the bottom of this post then I'm wrong.

Links
The Link's Name

yeah I'm wrong. Well if anyone who doesn't know really wants to know what a link looks like in HTML you can look at my news section.

Hmm unfortunately I must disable all HTML in public areas, or else you run the risk of someone stealing passwords or ever redirecting you to something else via javascript. Oh, foul Javascript. If there was a surefire way to disable Javascript for certain blocks of code, the world would be a better place.

I'll see if there's something I can do to at least "display" tags in this forum.

I can sort of do it, like this

<blah>

by using special characters.

Oh, I'll add functionality for [link="www.whatever.com"]Click here[/link]. At least that will make linking easier.

My goal is to eventually rewrite support for the most important HTML tags and also add style sheet support.