The user may use special tags, which allow them to format large blocks of text in a certain fashion, there are three tags, which allow this type of formatting, [code], [quote] and [spoiler].
This tag is generally used to display program source code within the body of the message. The text between the [code] and [/code] tags will be left as is and not formatted in any way. No other FUDcode tags will be applied to this text as well.
Internally [code] tag will be converted to it's HTML equivalent <pre> tag.
ex. [code]Example of the bold tag [b]Bold Text[/b][/code] will result in <pre>Example of the bold tag [b]Bold Text[/b]</pre> HTML being generated.
Quote tag is generally used automatically by the forum, to surround the text of the message the user is replying to. It can also be used by the user manually to format their text.
The most basic way to use the quote tag is to simply surround the text which is being quoted with the [quote] tags in the following manner:
ex. [quote]Quoted Text[/quote] will result in the following HTML <table border="0" align="center" width="20%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"> <tr><td class="SmallText"><b>Quote:</b></td></tr> <tr><td class="quote">Quoted Text<br></td></tr> </table>
The user may also use a slightly more advanced version of the quote tag, which permits the specification of a title for the quoted text. This can be done in the following manner:
ex. [quote title="My Title"]Quoted Text[/quote] will result in the following HTML <table border="0" align="center" width="20%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"> <tr><td class="SmallText"><b>"My Title"</b></td></tr> <tr><td class="quote">Quoted Text<br></td></tr> </table>
This is a very interesting and unique tag, which allows the user to hide portion of their text, so that if other users wish to see it. they would need to click on the 'Reveal Spoiler' link.
This tag is most useful on sites where users may want to post movie or story spoilers and have a way to hide their text so as to not spoil the story/movie for other readers who have not seen/read it yet.
To hide a text string using the spoiler tag, the user will need to place the text between the [spoiler] and [/spoiler] tags in the following fashion:
ex. [spoiler]Movie Spoiler[/spoiler] will result in the following HTML
<div class="dashed" style="padding: 3px;" align="center" width="100%">
<a href="javascript://" OnClick="javascript: layerVis('1147217758771422496', 1);">Reveal Spoiler</a>
<div align="left" id="1147217758771422496" style="visibility: hidden;">Movie Spoiler</div>
</div>