• How do I make a poll?
• How do I use commas in polls?
• How do I post attachments & screen shots?
• How do I post CODE and HTML etc without it being converted?
• How do I insert a 'clickable picture link' into a post?
• How do I make the blue sad faces?
• How do I put extra emoticons in my posts?
• How do I add a link in my signature?
• How do I print just a post, not the entire thread?
• How do I make ISO characters?
• How do I make text appear small?
• How do I center text and pictures in a post?
• Make a small website image appear in a post
• How do I post syntax-colored CODE
• Convert raw HTML to escaped characters?

To make a Poll:

The poll must be the first post in a thread.
You can now edit a poll once you submit it.
Use lower case for the poll command.

Your poll should look like this:

[poll]Ask your question?,Choice 1,Choice 2,Choice3,etc.[/poll]

For example:

[poll]What color is the sky?,red,blue,green,yellow[/poll]

If a poll works, during the preview stage it should display:

[Your poll will appear here after topic is created]

Images may be used for choices:

[poll]
Ask your question, , , ,
[/poll]

Note: There is a 255 character limit (including html tags) for each choice.

FYI: the poll function works even after the thread is locked. That is, users are still able to vote even when threads are locked.

To create a poll with multiple choices, use the [mpoll] and [/mpoll] tags.

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by graffixx edited by KeysCapt
last modified: 2006-03-30 19:17:44

To use commas, other than, and in addition to the commas that are required to separate your poll options, you need to replace the commas with , .

Here is an example:

[poll]Do commas in Polls work?,Yes ,, they do, No ,, they don't[/poll]

Here is the end result:


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by howe81
last modified: 2004-01-07 17:01:48

How do I post a screen shot?

The first thing to do is to re-size the window which you'd like to take the screen shot of to prevent "page stretch".

Then:
Make sure the window you want is the active window.

Press ALT + Print Screen SysRq (it will copy to the "clipboard")

Open MS Paint or other graphics program

File -> New

Edit -> Paste

File -> Save as JPEG or GIF

• Attachments

Finally, to post your screen shot, start a post on the site as you normally would, but then click on "Got Attachments?" and attach your file.

If you are using Internet Explorer, you will see the "attachments" button as displayed here:



The button activates the fields to browse and insert your image(s). If you have javascript disabled, the button may not work, so the link below it should be used.

If you've stored the image on your hard drive, then click on "browse" and navigate to the folder on your computer where the graphic is stored. Click on it, and it will be entered in the box to upload.

There is NO preview when uploading a graphic attachment.

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Edit: This procedure has been revised and enhanced to remove the uploading limitation of two items. You can now submit up to sixteen attachments with one post, as illustrated below:





Note: Please heed the warning against attaching .bmp files to your posts.

Another recommended and freeware graphics program that can be used to manipulate your graphics is Irfanview.

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by KeysCapt
last modified: 2004-02-13 09:09:08

As some of you may have noticed, if you try to post code (HTML, C, or other code), just by pasting it in and hitting PREVIEW, several bad things can happen.

• Your code loses any formatting.
  
• Your code may vanish completely if it contains angle brackets
  
• If you spell-check, your code is spell-checked (pointless)
  
• You get annoyed
  

The solution is to use [code] blocks.

Stuff within a [code] block is not mucked with, and is printed in a mono-spaced font, with all spaces (formatting) preserved.

To use a code block within a post, just post like so:

[code]
... (your code goes here) ...
[/code]

Note: the [code] and [/code] tags MUST APPEAR TO THE LEFT ON LINES BY THEMSELVES. Using [code]...[/code] inline, will not work.

The contents of the code block will be isolated from the post, shown in a mono-spaced font, and all angle and square brackets appear unmolested. Note, in order to preserve the right margin of the website, any lines longer than 90 characters are split, automatically, with notification at the bottom of the code block that this has happened.

Outside of code blocks, in order to use the characters: > < [ and ] use ASCII-ISO 8859-1 codes. These are codes that are specific to individual HTML characters:

[ = &#91;
] = &#93;
< = &lt;
> = &gt;

Note: When using ASCII-ISO 8859-1 codes to post with, you can only preview your post once. If you preview twice, the second preview will convert the post. For example:

If you are making a long and detailed post using the ASCII-ISO 8859-1 codes, it is advisable to write it first into notepad and copy and paste it into your post when it is ready. This way you will keep the original coding intact.

Thank you Dooby for this FAQ.

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by graffixx edited by howe81
last modified: 2004-01-07 17:21:49

This can only be done using a picture and a link that have a web address as shown below.

To insert a 'clickable picture link' into your post, use the following code:

<A HREF="http://www.dslreports.com/"><IMG SRC="http://i.dslr.net/go2.gif"></A>

The above example is a working link. To see how it works, just copy and paste it into a post.

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by Dooby edited by KeysCapt
last modified: 2003-01-13 08:28:46

The blue sad faces were newly implemented and can be created using colon (:) and the square left bracket ([).

So to create this () whilst posting, use (:[).

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by howe81
last modified: 2002-06-12 11:17:08

You can put emoticons like and that show up when you create a thread or reply any where in your posts by using the following codes:

= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon1.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon2.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon3.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon4.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon5.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon6.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon7.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon8.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon9.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon10.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon11.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon12.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon13.gif[/img]
= [img]http://i.dslr.net/bb/vbull_coll/icon14.gif[/img]

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by redxii edited by howe81
last modified: 2004-01-07 17:03:38

To add links in your signature, use the A HREF tags. So the syntax is:

<a href="http://url-here">Name of link</a>

An example would be this:

<a href="http://www.dslreports.com">DSL Reports</a>

would produce this:

DSL Reports

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by howe81

To print just the one post and not the entire thread hover over to here:

.. and you'll see the number for just that post then replace user http://www.dslreports.com/speak/print/default;xxxxxxx with the post number.

An example would be: http://www.dslreports.com/speak/print/default;2092703 which would produce: Click to view.

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by howe81

When you make characters such as ΅ (micron) or © (copyright) in the DSLReports forums, they won't be shown unless you use the HTML code equivalent.

A list can be found at:
http://www.activejump.com/n.shtml

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by redxii edited by KeysCapt
last modified: 2003-04-13 11:29:54

This is an ability that is included in the HTML help at the right side of the posting text box. To make text appear small, use the following code:

<small>Your text here</small>

This will appear in your post as:

Your text here

You could also use <small><tt> to use the Typewriter text style font which appears to be smaller than using <small> on many systems.

For example:

Your text here

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by Dooby edited by howe81
last modified: 2004-01-07 16:59:56

This is an extra ability that is not included in the hints beside the text box when posting. To center text and pictures in a post, use the following code:

<center>Put your text or image tag here</center>

This will cause that section to appear centered in your post like this:

Put your text or image tag here

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by Dooby edited by howe81
last modified: 2004-01-07 17:04:34

Site premium users in the forums can insert an image of any URL into a new post by using the syntax

[siteshot]....[/siteshot]

where .... is a valid URL, including http://

Click the image to go to the website mentioned and pictured. Click 'enlarge' to see the graphical snapshot at the time the post was created.

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by edited by howe81
last modified: 2004-01-07 17:05:33

Use a syntax block within your post. The format is:

[syntax=xxx]
(paste your code here)
[/syntax]

xxx is the language of your code fragment, as it would typically be represented in a FILE EXTENSION. Some common extensions that will trigger syntax coloring are below. Replacing xxx in the example above with php, for example, will syntax color a php code fragment.

javascript - Javascript
java - Java
perl - perl code
php - php code
h - c header file
registry - Windows registry export fragment

For the full list of supported languages, please see this FAQ entry - What languages are supported in syntax blocks

Note: Syntax blocks can be edited after the post has been made
Note: Syntax blocks will preview correctly. If they do not preview, they will not post correctly either.
Note: Syntax blocks cannot be AUTO-QUOTED, and should not be quoted manually
Note: The begin and end markers around a syntax block must be on their own lines and against the left margin

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by edited by howe81
last modified: 2005-07-20 19:22:30

Yes. If you need to turn a lot of HTML into escape characters for posting raw, there's a nice utility here:

Quick Escape.

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by climbers edited by redxii
last modified: 2011-08-07 01:34:37