Editing help

Normal usage

When writing messages in this forum you can type normal text. Press Return if you want a line break; press Return twice for a paragraph break.

That's all you need to know! But if you want to do something more advanced, read on.

XHTML

The forum allows you to use most XHTML tags. For example, if you want to emphasise a phrase, you can use the <em> tag.

This sentence contains an <em>emphasised phrase</em>.

If you want to add a link, use the XHTML <a href=""> tag:

Here is a <a href="http://www.google.com/">link</a>.

You can type special characters by using XHTML entities if you like. For example, you can type © in order to create the copyright sign ©. However, you can also use any facilities of your operating system (such as Windows Character Map or the Mac OS X Character Palette) to enter these symbols normally.

Reserved characters

There are no reserved characters. You can use the < and & symbols on their own without doing anything special, even though these have special meanings in XHTML.

2+2 < 5 & 3+3 > 5

The forum only applies the XHTML meaning when a < symbol looks like part of a tag, or a & symbol looks like part of an entity.

If you want to discuss XHTML code, or something similar, so that everyone can see the tags, then enclose that area of your post within double square brackets:

[[<h1>Tags & entities</h1>]]

Within double square brackets, everything is displayed exactly as entered (line and paragraph breaks still work). The double square brackets themselves are not shown.

Supported tags

This forum allows the following XHTML tags:

Most tags do not allow attributes. The only exceptions are: