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Showing Original Post only (View all)Unofficial DU3 Basic HTML Reference Lookup Table [View all]
Last edited Sat Nov 18, 2023, 07:00 PM - Edit history (11)
Bold[b]Text[/b]
Italic
[i]Text[/i]
Underline
[u]Text[/u]
Strikethrough
[strike]Text[/strike]
Highlight
[highlight]Text[/highlight]
Monospace font
[monospace]Text[/monospace]
Subscript
[sub]Text[/sub]
Superscript
[sup]Text[/sup]
Indented blockquote
[blockquote]Text[/blockquote]
Excerpt with light grey background
[excerpt]Text[/excerpt]
Hyperlink
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with http://
Hyperlink from text
[link:URL|Text]
(URL should include the http://)
Example:
[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com|DU4]
Images
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with http://
(Image filename must end with gif, jpg, or png file extension)
Example:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/imgs/logo.gif
Unordered Lists
[ul]
[li]Text
[li]Text
...
[/ul]
Ordered Lists
[ol]
[li]Text
[li]Text
...
[/ol]
Video Embedding (YouTube only)
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with https://
Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqzPu5pX6U
https://youtu.be/VyqzPu5pX6U
Embedding Tweets
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with https://twitter.com
Example:
https://twitter.com/demunderground/status/823960344548806656
Embedding Toots (Mastadon social media)
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with https://
Example:
https://mastodon.online/@pkrugman/109718199496975168
(NOTE: this only works for a limited number of Mastodon domains)
Preventing Embedding
For YouTube videos, add t=0& after the ? in the video URL.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=0&v=VyqzPu5pX6U
For Tweets, change domain from twitter.com to x.com in URL
Example:
https://x.com/demunderground/status/823960344548806656
For Mastodon, add %3 before post ID in URL
Example:
https://mastodon.online/@pkrugman/%3109718199496975168
						
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        You're our saviour! I thought that had been lost, since you had to be logged in
        muriel_volestrangler
        Mar 2013
        #15
      
        
        A 'user style sheet' allows you to customize the appearance of elements on a website.
        Make7
        Apr 2013
        #28
      
        
        Cool! I didn't know that you could substitute a style sheet hosted locally for the site's.
        lumberjack_jeff
        Apr 2013
        #29
      
        
        I haven't been able to get any type of line break to work within the 'About Me' text.
        Make7
        Apr 2013
        #25
      
        
        No, an [iframe] tag won't work here. You can only embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo.
        Make7
        Jan 2014
        #45
      
        
        So I want to have whole paragraphs of text with images using the stylized coding. How do I do that?
        Initech
        Jan 2017
        #61
      
        
        Well, it kind of depends on what device, operating system, and browser you are using.
        Make7
        Jan 2017
        #60
      
        
        The DU stylesheet scales images down to a max height of 100 pixels or max width of 400 for sigs.
        Make7
        Jan 2021
        #76
      
        
        For accents like É that work in thread and post titles use "É" etc.
        muriel_volestrangler
        Feb 2021
        #78
      
        
        That's been disabled since the 2016 hack — like most other user formatting options.
        Make7
        Feb 2021
        #84
      
        
        Thanks for trying.  I'd already attempted what I thought had worked before to no avail...
        hlthe2b
        Feb 2021
        #85
      
        
        Over in the science forum, we'd love the old codes for superscripts and subscripts.
        NNadir
        Jan 2022
        #86