Using HTML in posts

[SpankMe]

Most forum boards deny the use of HTML as it can screw up the page layout if you don't know what you are doing, but I like it enabled as it gives me more control on formatting posts.

One thing to remember when using HTML in posts is that it must be all on a single line as vBulletin adds line breaks after every line in a post. This is fine with normal text but causes many blank lines with HTML.

So the following example:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
   <tr>
      <td width="50%">
         text
      </td>
      <td width="50%">
         <img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg">
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

Would be entered thus:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="50%"> text </td> <td width="50%"> <img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg"> </td> </tr></table>

To remove the newlines, do a [CTRL] ↓ tol take you to the start of the next newline, then do a [backspace].

Also make sure the "Automatically parse URLs" option is not selected as this is why you keep seeing "target=_blank" next to links.

[MikeL]

Hey Bikerboy
We were concerned about our posts in Italian not being understood.
Seems to me that's not the only foreign language being used here!

[Motu]

Oooh,but it's nice and colourful eh.I've always perferd black myself,but some of the more expresive guys,y'know,like a bit more colour.Can you do it in more pastel tones...like say peach or terracotta?

[bikerboy]

Che ?

[Coldkiwi]

WTF!? I guess this forum is for the few that know html code!

[SPman]

WTF!? I guess this forum is for the few that know html code

By the tone of the "I want a job" post, that would be most of the members, wouldn't it?   

[SpankMe]

Using HTML you can better layout images in your post.

Tanya

Janie Dickens

Sarina

The above was done with the following HTML:

<table border="1" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" align="center">
   <tr>
      <td align="center">
         <a href="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/images/tanyagsxr1000_wallpaper_03.jpg">
         <img src="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/thumbnails/tanyagsxr1000_wallpaper_03_tn.jpg"><br>
          Tanya</a>
      </td>
      <td align="center">
         <a href="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/images/janie_dickens.jpg">
         <img src="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/thumbnails/janie_dickens_tn.jpg"><br>
          Janie Dickens</a>
      </td>
      <td align="center">
         <a href="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/images/Sarina_wallpaper.jpg">
         <img src="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/thumbnails/Sarina_wallpaper_tn.jpg"><br>
          Sarina</a>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

[Dave]

I had one of those but the wheel fell off.