Formatting the style of your posting using regular expressions

What is Format Mode used for?

• Write: Adds the regular expression code tags to the message box automatically by simply highlighting a piece of text with your mouse curser and clicking on the buttons.
• Prompt: Opens a program, which prompts you for your text at the required times. It then builds your code for you based on your input. Useful for adding images, building links, and lists.
• Help: When help mode is initiated an alert box pops up with a description of the button you last clicked on. Unlike the other modes, it doesn't write the code for you, it just tells you about it.
  
  
• Tip: The prompt mode makes it much easier for inserting images, constructing links, and building lists. This is because of the complexity of these types of tag, the prompt mode does most of the work for you, and is therefore the best way to do the job.
  However, all the other tags work much better using the write mode, as this does all the work for you, if you pre-highlight a piece of text with your mouse curser.

Hypertext links and images:

Image: Enclose your link to the image with [img] and [/img]
Example: [img]http://www.yoursite.com/images/smilieface.gif[/img] =
Tip: To get the URL (link to the image) open the graphic in a new browser window, then highlight and copy Ctrl C the link from the address bar at the top of the browser. Then paste Ctrl V the link between your [img] [/img] tags. The image can only be in gif or jpg format.
Note: Unfortunately, your image has to reside somewhere on the Internet for you to be able to link to it. You cannot link to an image stored in your home computer. If you have server space, upload the image to that space, then link to it. We do not allow file upload on this server.

Hyperlink: Enclose your link with [url=http://www.somewhere.com] and [/url]
Example: [url=http://www.trebrown.com]text[/url] = text
Tip: To get the URL (link to the page) open the site in a new browser window, then highlight and copy Ctrl C the link from the address bar at the top of the browser. Then paste Ctrl V the link within your [url=here] tag.

Image link: Follow the steps above to add an image then enclose your [img] [/img] tags with [url=http://www.somewhere.com] and [/url] tags.
Example: [url=http://www.yoursite.com] [img]http://www.yoursite.com/images/smilieface.gif[/img] [/url] =

Email: Enclose your email address with [mailto:me@somewhere.co.uk] and [/url]
Example: [mailto:me@somewhere.co.uk]text[/url] = text.

Text formatting:

Bold: Enclose your text with [b] and [/b] .  Example: This is [b]bold[/b] text. = This is bold text.

Italic: Enclose your text with [i] and [/i] .  Example: This is [i]italic[/i] text. = This is italic text.

Underline: Enclose your text with [u] and [/u]. Example: This is [u]underline[/u] text. = This is underline text.

Strike through: Enclose your text with [s] and [/s]. Example: This is [s]struck through[/s] text. = This is struck through text.

Aligning Text Left:
Enclose your text with [left] and [/left]

Aligning Text Centre:
Enclose your text with [centre] and [/centre] or American spelling: [center] and [/center]

Aligning Text Right:
Enclose your text with [right] and [/right]

Tabs: Enclose your text with [t] and [/t].
Example: This is [t]tabbed[/t] text. = This is       tabbed text.
It is usually used for a whole block of text to create a wider left-hand margin.

Horizontal Rule:
Place a horizontal line in your post with [hr]
Example: [hr] =

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Quote: Enclose your text with [quote] and [/quote]. To quote something that someone else has written.
Tip: You don't need to write-out the words you want to quote. It is easy to copy the text and paste it into your message, by simply using your keyboard. Highlight your chosen text using your mouse curser, hit Ctrl & C to copy it, then hit Ctrl & V to paste it into your message. Remember to enclose it with [quote] and [/quote] or it won't be a quote.

Font Colours:

Enclose your text with [colour] and [/colour]
Example: [black]Text[/black] = Text
Example: [red]Text[/red] = Text
Example: [green]Text[/green] = Text
Example: [orange]Text[/orange] = Text
Example: [purple]Text[/purple] = Text
Example: [blue]Text[/blue] = Text
Example: [brown]Text[/brown] = Text
Example: [teal]Text[/teal] = Text
Example: [navy]Text[/navy] = Text

Font Face:

Enclose your text with [font=face] and [/font=face] All are case sensitive.
Example: [font=Arial]Text[/font=Arial] = Text
Example: [font=Arial Black]Text[/font=Arial Black] = Text
Example: [font=Century Gothic]Text[/font=Century Gothic] = Text
Example: [font=Comic Sans MS]Text[/font=Comic Sans MS] = Text
Example: [font=Courier New]Text[/font=Courier New] = Text
Example: [font=Impact]Text[/font=Impact] = Text
Example: [font=Script MT Bold]Text[/font=Script MT Bold] = Text
Example: [font=Tahoma]Text[/font=Tahoma] = Text
Example: [font=Times New Roman]Text[/font=Times New Roman] = Text
Example: [font=Verdana]Text[/font=Verdana] = Text

Headings:

Enclose your text with [hnumber] and [/hnumber] 1-6

Example: [h1]Text[/h1] =	Text
Example: [h2]Text[/h2] =	Text
Example: [h3]Text[/h3] =	Text
Example: [h4]Text[/h4] =	Text
Example: [h5]Text[/h5] =	Text
Example: [h6]Text[/h6] =	Text

Font Sizes:

Example: [size=1]Text[/size=1] = Text
Example: [size=2]Text[/size=2] = Text
Example: [size=3]Text[/size=3] = Text
Example: [size=4]Text[/size=4] = Text
Example: [size=5]Text[/size=5] = Text
Example: [size=6]Text[/size=6] = Text

Unordered lists (Bulleted):
Type - Circle: [list] and [/list], and items in list with [li] and [/li].
Example:

[list] [li]line one[/li] [li]line two[/li] [li]line three[/li] [/list]

=

line one line two line three

Tip: To keep the lines closer together write it all on one line like this:

Example: [list][li]line one[/li][li]line two[/li][li]line three[/li][/list]

• line one
• line two
• line three

Type - Square: [list=square] and [/list=square], and items in list with [li] and [/li].
Example:

[list=square] [li]line one[/li] [li]line two[/li] [li]line three[/li] [/list=square]

=

line one line two line three

Ordered lists (Alpha - Numeric):
Type - Numbered: [list=1] and [/list=1], and items in list with [li] and [/li].
Example:

[list=1] [li]line one[/li] [li]line two[/li] [li]line three[/li] [/list=1]

=

line one line two line three

Tip: To keep the lines closer together write it all on one line like this:

Example: [list=1][li]line one[/li][li]line two[/li][li]line three[/li][/list=1]

1. line one
2. line two
3. line three

Type - Alphabetical: [list=a] and [/list=a], and items in list with [li] and [/li].
Example:

[list=a] [li]line one[/li] [li]line two[/li] [li]line three[/li] [/list=a]

=

line one line two line three

Tip regarding lists: Lists can be nested (a list inside a list). For example; you could have an alphabetical list within the [li]here[/li] tags of any other numbered or bulleted list.

Smilies:

Hate em! or Love em! Popular demand forces me to include them. They can make typing faster! I've included all 20 of the popular ones.

Example: [:)] = Smile Example: [:D] = Big Smile Example: [:P] = Tongue Example: [;)] = Wink Example: [:(!] = Angry Example: [^] = Approve Example: [V] = Disapprove Example: [}:)] = Evil Example: [B)] = Black Eye Example: [:o)] = Clown

Example: [8D] = Cool Example: [xx(] = Dead Example: [:I] = Blush Example: [:X] = Kisses Example: [8)] = Shy Example: [|)] = Sleepy Example: [8] = Unsure Example: [:(] = Frown Example: [:0] = Shocked Example: [?] = Question