What type of formatting is available?

If the formatting checkbox is not checked, your comments will not be formatted, and will remain as you originally typed them. If it is checked, the formatting will be applied as described below.

URL Formatting

There are several choices when it comes to formatting URLs and email links, including automatic formatting.

If you want to format your URLs or mailto links, you can use the below formatting:

http://www.domain.com/ produces http://www.domain.com/
[url]http://www.domain.com/[/url] produces http://www.domain.com/
[url=http://www.domain.com/]domain[/url] produces domain

user@domain.com produces user@domain.com
[email]user@domain.com[/email] produces user@domain.com
[email=user@domain.com]user[/email] produces user

Bold (strong), Italic (emphatic) and Underline

You can format your text by including bold, italic and underlining, as shown below:

[b]bold (strong) text[/b] produces bold (strong) text
[i]italic (emphatic) text[/i] produces italic (emphatic) text
[u]underlined text[/u] produces underlined text

Images

You can insert images in your post as shown below. Please keep the width to 350px or less.

[img=http://www.ryanbrill.com/images/archives/superior_01.jpg] produces

Color

You can specify color by using either the colors name, or by specifying the hex value. The valid color names are aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.

[color=maroon]maroon text[/color] produces maroon text
[color=#336699]#336699 text[/color] produces #336699 text

Font Family

You can specify the font-family you'd like to use in the following manner: (please note that font names containing whitespace should be quoted. Do not use double quotes ["name"], or the code will not get processed.)