HTML tag support

[Spitfire_x86]

I was initially excited to see HTML support in this forum. But I couldn't get any tag working except [code:1:92d706cfc8]<b> <i> <u>[/code:1:92d706cfc8]
Why add HTML support, if it only does things that BB code can already do?

 

[steve_sa]

For reasons of abuse, phpbb boards come standard with those 3 tags enabled. This is three tags more than you had before

The idea is to use bbcode tags like [], and not to generally use html tags, so that the software can deal with them/render them properly.

If ther is a 'must have' tag, you can tell, and the reason it is must have. First look at the bbcodes, a link of which you can see on the left bar, when you are posting...

 

[Spitfire_x86]

These 3 tags are useless unless somebody prefers to write in a WYSIWYG html editor and paste the code here.

My tag wishlist:

* TT
* UL, OL, LI
* BLOCKQUOTE, TABLE, TR, TD, A
(for using with FAQs, and comparative data representation)


BTW, currently PRE tag automatically adds 2 newlines, which isn't nice and there's no way to use ASCII art unless we use bb CODE tag.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Just curious, is it just a matter of enabling certain tags from phpbb control panel or will you have to write extra code to support the additional tags?

 

[steve_sa]

Some enabling, some testing... I have not looked into that aspect of forum s/w yet.

Some of those tags like table are NO GO. Why? because if you dont' close a table or tr or td, you can easily break the entire page rendering 8O

The other ones? I've never seen people use them... how often you see them being used?

[edit] with lists, it is mult-stage process of putting it together. I am wondering how many people know how to do it, or what is the great advantage over just listing things out in the message.

 

[alltaken]

are the BBcode ones that bad?

1.0 CONTENTS
2.0 STUFF

[*:5b9c18df43]2.1 Sub-stuff
[*:5b9c18df43]2.2 Sub-stuff 2
[*:5b9c18df43]2.21 Sub-sub-stuff
[*:5b9c18df43]2.22 sub-sub-stuff 2
[*:5b9c18df43]2.23 more sub stuff

3.0 MORE STUFF
[*:5b9c18df43]3.1 more-sub-stuff


they offer embedded lists, they should offer automatically ordered lists (where the ■ is replaced with a letter, or a number such as a,b,c,d,e or 1,2,3,4,5,6. but ordered lists seem to be broken on this site.

bbcode from what i know does everything except tables on your list, and its no harder to type.

Alltaken

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Yes, I can create nested TOC with bb tag, but how do I make TOC items clickable?[/list][/list]

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Table tags are not so necessay, but occasionally we made some benchmark lists.
http://www.geocities.com/spitfire_x86/thgc/fahbench.html
http://www.geocities.com/spitfire_x86/thgc/rarbench.html

Overall, I think we should be able to make FAQs like this in the new forum.
Club CDfreaks FAQ for LiteOn Optical Drives

<BR>, <HR> tags are quite harmless, and <HR> will be useful in the FAQs

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Just tried all of my demanded tags at CDfreaks.com forum. Everything worked (including the table tags) in their vbulletin based forum. I also tried <H1>, <H2>, <DIV>, <P>, <SPAN>, <IMG> tags and all of them worked!! So I don't see any reason why we couldn't implement these. Their forum is one of the best in the web, and hardly any page layout is broken.

n00bs won't use HTML tags, and not so frequently used tags will remain mostly untouched. So I don't think disturbance is page layout will be an issue. Now I demand maximum possible HTML compatibility, nothing less! :twisted: