Formatting Text
When you write messages that appear on this website, you can usually spice them up using the simple markup language described below.
This allows you to embed links, make text bold, change color and size, link to user pages automatically etc.
There are also some special tags you can use on artist wiki pages; see "Show BBCode markup guide" on wiki edit pages for more information.
Basic Markup
| What you write | What you get |
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| Normal text |
Normal text
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| Bold text [b]like this[/b] |
Bold text like this
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| Italic text [i]like this[/i] |
Italic text like this
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| Underlined text [u]like this[/u] |
Underlined text like this
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Colored text [color=red]works[/color] [color=green]like[/color] [color=blue]this[/color]. [url=http://colorblender.com/]ColorBlender.com[/url] is useful for picking the [color=#467A61]color codes[/color]. |
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| [size=10]Different[/size] [size=14]size[/size] [size=18]text[/size] is also possible. |
Different size text is also possible.
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| Website links: [url]http://www.last.fm/[/url] |
Website links: http://www.last.fm/
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Website links with link text: [url=http://www.last.fm/]Last.fm[/url] |
Website links with link text:
Last.fm |
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Images that exist on some webserver: [img]http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/badges/lastfm_black_small.gif[/img] |
Images that exist on some webserver:
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Linking to Last.fm Pages
| What you write | What you get |
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| Link to a last.fm user page: [user]rj[/user] rocks. |
Link to a last.fm user page: RJ rocks.
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| Link to a last.fm group page: [group]Last.fm Development[/group] |
Link to a last.fm group page: Last.fm Development
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| Artist page: [artist]Radiohead[/artist] |
Artist page: Radiohead
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| Album page: [album artist=radiohead]kid a[/album] |
Album page: Kid A
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| Track page: [track artist=radiohead]karma police[/track] |
Track page:
 Karma Police |
| Label page: [label]Labrador[/label] |
Label page: Labrador
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| Tag page: [tag]rock[/tag] |
Tag page: rock
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| Event page: This [event=207155]event[/event] will be awesome. |
Event page: This event will be awesome.
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| Place page: [place]united kingdom[/place] |
Place page: United Kingdom
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Other markup
| What you write | What you get |
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| You can [b]also [color=red][size=15]combine[/size][/color] [i]many[/i][/b] settings together.. like this. |
You can also combine many settings together.. like this.
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| Strikethru text [s]like this[/s] |
Strikethru text
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| Superscript [sup]like this[/sup] |
Superscript like this
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| Subscript [sub]like this[/sub] |
Subscript like this
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Quoted text: [quote]How [b]you[/b] doing?[/quote] (pressing 'quote' in forum threads automatically quotes the message you are replying to. |
Quoted text:
How you doing? (pressing 'quote' in forum threads automatically quotes the message you are replying to. |
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You can also align text to the [align=left]left,[/align] [align=center]center[/align] [align=right]or the right.[/align] |
You can also align text to the
left, center or the right. |
| Lists: [ulist][li]One[/li][li]Two[/li][li]Three[/li][/ulist] |
Lists:
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