My Account FAQ: Formatting Guide

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My Account FAQ: Formatting Guide

3.01	What is a 'smilie' and how do I use them?
3.02	Can I use HTML?
3.03	What is BBcode or if you have HTML disabled, how do I do formatting on my posts?
3.04	Magical Text Formatting Stuff You can do on the BioBoards

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3.01 What is a 'smilie' and how do I use them? (Back to Top)

'Smilies' or 'emoticons' are those tiny pictures that represent different emotions.

Type in the smiley code given under the text box when you go to post/create or edit a post or a message on this site. For example: If you type :) (the colon followed by the right bracket) this will be automatically converted into a graphical smiley face.
There must be spaces around the smiley code eg. "Smiley:)" will not work but " smiley :) " will.
You can start of a message using a smiley.
You can use smilies in your signature file.
Disable the automatic conversion of code into graphical smilies by clicking "Disable Smilies on this post" when you go to post a message. If you really hate smilies you can make this the default behavior in your profile.

3.02 Can I use HTML? (Back to Top)

No. HTML is disabled when submitting ANY form element on the BioWare sites.

3.03 What is BBcode or if you have HTML disabled, how do I do formatting on my posts? (Back to Top)

BBcode is "Bulletin Board" Code and is similar to HTML. It is use to add a bit o' pep to your posts on the forums through formatting your text in wacky new ways.

3.04 Magical Text Formatting Stuff You can do on the BioBoards (Back to Top)

Text Formatting (Bold and Italics)

[b][/b] - Bold
[i][/i] - Italics

To Bold something place the text between the pair of formatting tags.

eg. [b]This is bold[/b] and [i]This is italics[/i]
will produce This is bold and This is italics

If you start a tag you must finish it. For example, if you type '[b]' somewhere you must have [/b] somewhere later in your text to finish it.

eg. [b]This is bold and [i]This is italics
will produce (b)This is bold and (i)This is italics
and not the formatted text you were looking for.

Creating Lists

Lists are produced using the [list][/list] Tags.

To create a bulleted list:

[list]
[*]Item 1
[*]Item 2
[/list]

This will produce:

Item 1
Item 2

To create a numbered list:

[list=1]
[*]Item 1
[*]Item 2
[/list]

This will produce:

Item 1
Item 2

To create a numbered list using letters:

[list=A]
[*]Item 1
[*]Item 2
[/list]

This will produce:

Item 1
Item 2

Increase your posting Kung-fu with URLs:

URLs = (Internet Links to other sites etc.)

BioBoards support the [url][/url] tags for creating links but, if you type in a link such as "http://www.somewhere.com/index.html" we will automatically convert that into the correctly formatted link tag for use on your post.

The two types of URL tag use are:

1) [url]http://www.bioware.com[/url]

produces http://www.bioware.com

For this to work the link must start with http://www.

2) [url=http://www.bioware.com]Visit BioWare[/url]

produces Visit BioWare

If you type in a url which is very very very long, we will automagically convert it into a link which has the words "click here".

Links such as http://forums.bioware.com will not be automatically converted and you must use method 2.

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