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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, 08:00 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