Is there a guide somewhere for formatting on the new forum? What markup does it use? I saw ** for bold, so I tried __ for underline, and nothing.
I noticed that the HTML from the formatting on the old forum was visible when I went to edit a topic migrated over. It’s a complete mess and I’m combing through it trying to redo it. I also noticed I can no longer underline.
“Better text formatting” - where is it?
Thank you!
Edit:
Can also not type my guild name as Moon with < > around it. Anything in < > goes invis.
There is a sticky in GD: New Forum Guide - Syntax and Features but I don’t see anything about underlining, just italics, bold, strikethrough. There is one post in there asking if they did away with underlining and no answer yet.
Gross. Thanks guys. Not sure why they would remove that. I have a lot of information in my guild post that I would like formatted a specific way. Looks like they need to expand their horizons in terms of formatting and add more useful ones. I know underlining is taboo for developers and designers nowadays, but it’s not for us forum plebs.
Appreciate it.
Still wondering why I cannot type <Moon --> without the space and hyphen involved.
One reason I’ve seen given elsewhere on the interwebs for not using underlining is that clarifies underlined text as possible URL links.
Just a test: <Moon Guard> (so, use the html style of “& gt ;” or “& lt ;” taking out the spaces to get the less than and greater than symbols as text characters)
Hrmmm, that is odd. It seems to be doing things like ignoring end of line once it’s posted that were correctly showing in the preview. And the bold (test: bold) switching back is really odd. I wonder if there’s a Trust Level effect going on with respect to what html can be used.
When I tried to do the trust level JSON trick, it had both 0 and 1 in there. Not sure which I am, but would really like to be able to present my guild in an organized, neat way.
Seems to be a known issue that’s starting to spread, in knowledge of it, throughout the community. I complained about this too, because I couldn’t update our guild ad on our realm forum. I posted about it in the #support:website-bug-report forum.
Anyways, the work around to this, is using an alt to post on the thread or having someone else, like a guildie, etc… to post. Here’s to hoping we can bump our threads again like we used to without this workaround.
I made a duplicate thread for testing purposes. The formatting works here, so it looks like this is a problem affecting only migrated posts. I am fine with deleting our former thread and having this new one, but would prefer that we can use our old one.