One of the posters on here (I still haven’t figured out how to highlight a section and respond to it, like all of you do!) said something …
Okay, I will show you how to use the tags. All the text formatting is done using tags that look like these
[ABC]whatever you want to put here![/ABC]. That automatically gives the text in between the two tags the kind of formatting represented by
[ABC][/ABC].
[ABC] was not a true tag, otherwise it would not have shown up in the text; only the formatting would have showsn up. True tags include the following:
B] for bold,
I] for italics,
U] for underline,
INDENT] for indentation,
QUOTE] for putting text in “quote” boxes, and so forth. All tags must have a beginning and an endig. The ending tag is always the same as the beginning tag except that it is preceded by a slash
/…]. You can “nest” tags inside tags as much as you want, like so:
[X][Y]…[/Y][/X], but never like so:
[X][Y]…[/X][/Y], or any other arangement apart than the first. You can insert the tags manually; or an easier way is to use the formatting buttons provided at the top of the text editor when you are typing in CAF. If you have used a wordprocessor like Microsoft Word, these buttons will be familiar. They look the same and do the same things. To insert the tags, you highlight a piece of text you want to be formatted, and then click on the approptiate button to achieve the desired formatting. Some tags get sophisticated like URL tags or Image tags. If you hover your mouse pointer over each button, a “tool tip” appears that tells you what it does.
When replying to posts, always you use the “Quote” button shown at the bottom of each post. That automatically wraps up all of the original post in “quote” tags which identifies it and links it back to the original post. If you want to delete part of the quote and reply to only part of it, you can do so provided you don’t delete the beginning or ending tag. In the same way you can breake up a post into smaller quotes by using the “quote” tag and reply to each part separately. The best way to learn how it all works is to try it out. There is a special forum called
Sandbox designed specificaly for this purpose. You can go there try things out until you learn how it works. The tags are also know as the
“BB Code,” and there are also plenty of tutorials on the Intrnet that tell you how to use them. Here are a few links for you to try:
askdavetaylor.com/what_is_bbcode_and_how_do_i_use_it.html
phpbb.com/community/faq.php?mode=bbcode
bbcode.org/reference.php
