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  • Eadwyn_G8keeperEadwyn_G8keeper Member Posts: 541
    testing
    lolien
  • Eadwyn_G8keeperEadwyn_G8keeper Member Posts: 541
    edited February 2016
    testing
    lolien
  • Son_of_ImoenSon_of_Imoen Member Posts: 1,806
    Is there a way to make tables that look good in this forum software?

    Not the tables with four legs that you put your dinnerplate on, but a table like this:

    - A
    - B
    - C
    - D
    - E

    or

    1. A
    2. B
    3. B
    4. B
    5. B

    I'm looking for a way to put extra spaces between the lines move the whole table a bit to the left, like when using bullet points in a text editor like Word.
  • Troodon80Troodon80 Member, Developer Posts: 4,110
    @Son_of_Imoen, not entirely sure what you mean. You want an indent (as referred to when you said "a bit to the left"), I assume? Or do you mean line spacing between lines (as referred to when you said "extra spaces between the lines")? Or both?

    If you're looking for an indent, you can just use a standard list and remove the bullet point instead of using a table. Or you can use a DIV element and give it extra padding.

    Should you want a table instead, then you can see one I made earlier.

    If you can clarify your usage, I can give you a better reply. :-)
    lolien
  • Son_of_ImoenSon_of_Imoen Member Posts: 1,806
    edited February 2016
    @Troodon80 As my Office software is in Dutch, I found it hard to find the proper English way of saying it.

    But what I meant was (attempt at clarification:) a standard list with bullet points, with a linear spacing of about 1 1/2. Or with numbers instead of bullet points if there's a definitive order in what I try to say. And with an indent (I got the left and right mixed up, sorry for that).

    But what's a DIV element?
  • Son_of_ImoenSon_of_Imoen Member Posts: 1,806
    edited February 2016
    Thank you @Troodon80, that's exactly what I'm looking for!

    I'd like to give you an Insightful, Agree and Like all at once for your effort.

    *edit: and I tried it out straight away
    JuliusBorisovTroodon80
  • brusbrus Member Posts: 944
    Is it posssible to change the gradient of background in the post?
    Now it's black/grey, devs have blue/black. How to change it, for example, to black/red ?
  • lolienlolien Member, Moderator, Translator (NDA) Posts: 3,108
    imagelolien Posts: 10000
    Mushroom.

    Testing.








    You can quote me @brus . Change the color value [rgb()] for experimenting with various background.
    Black-red should be rgb(10,10,10), rgb(160,20,20). Also you find a purest code here








    Testing.


    image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    image
    brusJuliusBorisovRodrian
  • lolienlolien Member, Moderator, Translator (NDA) Posts: 3,108
    edited February 2016
    Now, my advice is to use this feature just on rare occasions, it can get swiftly irksome for other forumites, when it's overused.

    Edit: also, if you place the orientation of the gradient background as i did it above, you can't edit your own post anymore...
    JuliusBorisov
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,714
    Dat promote, though... ;)
    lolienRodrianThe_Potty_1
  • brusbrus Member Posts: 944
    edited February 2016

    Thank you @lolien
    lolienJuliusBorisov
  • AbelAbel Member Posts: 785
    Isn't there an editor that outputs a forum friendly formatted text but has GUI inputs? I don't like typing in all tags, especially when it's just to underline or embolden some text.
  • Troodon80Troodon80 Member, Developer Posts: 4,110
    I don't tend to worry that much about the time it takes, but there are a few WYSIWYG editors out there. Kompozer hasn't been updated in a long time, but you could try that. Aside from that, there are probably browser extensions you could get.
    lolienAbelJuliusBorisov
  • brusbrus Member Posts: 944
    edited March 2016
    @booinyoureyes , this is the new list.
    [list=1]
    [*] Boo
    [*] Booo
    [*] Boooo
    [/list]
    
    1. Boo
    2. Booo
    3. Boooo
    JuliusBorisovbooinyoureyes
  • AbelAbel Member Posts: 785
    edited March 2016
    Thanks @Troodon80, will try!
    Seems I just needed to ask to get embedded formating! Yay !
    lolienJuliusBorisov
  • argent77argent77 Member Posts: 3,431
    edited March 2016
    Let's see what works:
    Bold text
    Italic text
    Underlined text
    Strikethrough text
    Font: serif
    Font: sans-serif
    Font: cursive
    Font: fantasy
    Font: monospace
    Colored text: #FF7F00
    Colored text: green
    Text size: 0
    Text size: 1
    Text size: 2
    Text size: 3
    Text size: 4
    Text size: 5
    Text size: 6
    Text size: 7
    AAT
    Unformatted link: http://unformatted.link
    Formatted link: Formatted link
    Unformatted wiki link: wiki-page
    Formatted wiki link: Formatted wiki link
    Email: test@test.test
    Image: beamdog.png
    Horizontal rule:
    Forced
    line break
    Centered text
    Left text
    Right text
    Indented text
    Text in code style
    
    Quoted text
    argent77 wrote:
    Quoted text with reference to user
    argent77 wrote: »
    Quoted text with reference to specific post
    • Unordered list 1
    • Unordered list 2
    1. Ordered list 1
    2. Ordered list 2
    • Unordered list 1:
      • Nested entry 1
      • Nested entry 2
    • Unordered list 2
  • Troodon80Troodon80 Member, Developer Posts: 4,110
    As a note—it appears that posts made prior to the switch to BBCode retain their formatting, so if you need to edit a post it'll still be in HTML.
  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    edited March 2016
    ???
    addfasfsg
    dssgdgdf
    sfdsdsgg
    
  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    edited March 2016
    ???
    addfasfsg
    dssgdgdf
    sfdsdsgg
    

    It looks like the mere presence of a spoiler tag is enough to alter the behaviour of the code tag.

    Edit: now it works fine.
    Post edited by Erg on
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,714
    Troodon80 wrote: »
    As a note—it appears that posts made prior to the switch to BBCode retain their formatting, so if you need to edit a post it'll still be in HTML.

    When I looked through https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/40963/baldurs-gate-siege-of-dragonspear-previously-known-as-the-adventure-y-project#latest I found the opposite - the formatting of posts is off. Also, have a look at the OP in this thread - the formatting there is completely off (it isn't retained).
  • wubblewubble Member Posts: 3,156
    It took me long enough to figure out the last system :(
  • Troodon80Troodon80 Member, Developer Posts: 4,110
    edited March 2016
    @bengoshi,

    Not sure what you mean; in what way was it opposite? I just added HTML to this post and it worked fine when I saved it. Note that many old spoilers are still broken.
    Post edited by Troodon80 on
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,714
    Oh, I got what you mean - you mean that to EDIT the pre-change posts we need to use the old formatting way, right? But to edit the pre-change posts in terms of spoilers we need to change brackets.
  • Troodon80Troodon80 Member, Developer Posts: 4,110
    @bengoshi, yes, for those old posts you'll need to change to <div class="Spoiler"></div>.
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    We're switching over to a WYSIWYG editor. It also supports Ctrl-I, Ctrl-B, and Ctrl-U commands.

    You can switch back to HTML-view if you prefer, and WYSIWYG uses HTML.

    And spoiler tags should still work.


    BenArledgeTroodon80Abelkaguana
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    edited March 2016
    <i>What happens if you use HTML tags in a WYSIWYG editor?</i>

    LET'S FIND OUT.

    EDIT: Okay, so if you enter HTML when you're in WYSIWIG mode, it doesn't do anything. However...


    If you enter HTML in HTML-view, it'll work. See?
    JuliusBorisovAbel
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447

    This is a heading, apparently.


    This is a Heading 2.


    There is no Heading 3.

    Or is there? (typed in HTML)

  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    Want to see something really neat?


    How to do cool things

    Here are the steps:

    1.     Open a Word document

    2.     Type your post how you want it to appear

    3.     Copy the whole thing

    4.     Paste it into your post.

    JuliusBorisovlolienAbel
  • lolienlolien Member, Moderator, Translator (NDA) Posts: 3,108
    edited March 2016
    Yes, i tried to change the broken spoiler tags in one of my thread with changing the old spoiler tags, as Dee suggested above too, by copying in notepad ++ . But if i changed it to this form: < div class="Spoiler" > < /div > , just the first spoiler tag showed up, the others didn't appeared, three dot showed up instead. I tried the extended spoiler code, what Troodon mentioned somewhere, but with that the body of the post were too long, so i could not save the edit. I didn't find a proper solution yet. Should i move the entire post in a new discussion?

    Edit: I see just now, that what Dee mentioned is a completely different method. My question still remained however.
    AbelJuliusBorisov
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