How do I... Format guide
TappedOut forum
Posted on Nov. 19, 2013, 11:13 a.m. by Lord007
I thought we should do this to help out some people (me) that see cool formatting stuff but have no idea how to do it. (& is actually a *, wherever you see one [ there is actually 2)
What I know:
[deck-large:DECKNAME] is how to do
Elite Taactics
[PLAYERNAME] is Lord007
[DECKNAME] is Elite Taactics (occasionally if you preview your comment or post enough times this will look the same as [deck-large:DECKNAME] which happened here for me. This is just a normal link to a deck.
[CARDNAME] is Omenspeaker
&WORDS& is italic
&&WORDS&& is bold
&&&WORDS&&& is both
If you put # before a line of text you get:
Large Text
If you put ## before a line of text you get:
Largish Text
I don't know how to insert a link to an outside website or how to insert a picture... If you know how to do something I haven't already said please post.
and
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all from below the comment box that I entered this in.
You can only lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
November 19, 2013 11:32 a.m.
vertexvortex says... #4
Images are normal HTML code:
(img src="http://static.tappedout.net/mtg-cards/dissension/momir-vig-simic-visionary_medium.jpg"/)
change () to <>
gives you 
November 19, 2013 11:37 a.m.
vampirelazarus the code you use for urls now is markdown and it's pretty common/normal to see on a lot of blogs, cms systems and the like, which to me makes the most sense because most tools that I work with use this. Though I disagree with the allowed html stuff most of the time here for pure security reasons.
November 19, 2013 11:43 a.m.
vertexvortex Is there an easy to access image gallery of all the mtg cards somewhere?
November 19, 2013 11:57 a.m.
vampirelazarus says... #7
@Lord007 you can use the images from gatherer.wizards.com
@gufymike: I guess I just aged myself, even though I'm not that old, I have been on the internet since I was 8. I'm not a fan of change, but hey. What can you do about it?
November 19, 2013 noon
vertexvortex says... #8
@vampirelazarus: I wouldn't do that. hot-linking is dirty dirty. I just view a card from tappedout and grab the image URL from there. At least it's working within the same website.
November 19, 2013 12:14 p.m.
vampirelazarus says... #9
The gatherer rarely changes things, so hot-linking is acceptable from them, imo.
November 19, 2013 12:19 p.m.
vampirelazarus, not the point. hot-linking is bad because it abuses bandwidth for the sites with the images. Back in the day, it was very common to pay by the GB of data transferred. Now a days for small sites it's not so common, larger companies that use racks of servers still do. It's about netiquette of being kind and saving a few dollars for the source.
November 19, 2013 12:28 p.m.
vampirelazarus says... #11
got it. But I'll probably continue anyways, because change, yo. I can't do it.
November 19, 2013 12:36 p.m.
I'm a web developer by day, so every post I write is in HTML. What formatting questions do you have? Maybe I can help.
vampirelazarus says... #2
There is a guide on here, under formatting tips.
Linking to an outside site is tricky, I wish it were normal HTML or even BB code, because [url]website[/url] makes more sense than what it currently is.
Right now, its [TEXT] (WEBSITE URL) without a space between them.
google's website
November 19, 2013 11:22 a.m.