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How do I create bolded text, italicized text, and hot links in forum posts?

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For bold text:

 \<b\>Ron is a nice guy\</b\>

→ Ron is a nice guyFor italic text:

 \<i\>Ron is an awesome guy\</i\>

→_Ron is an awesome guy_For underlined text:

 \<u\>Ron is a cool guy\</u\>

→Ron is a cool guy For hot links:

 \<a href="Insert URL here"\>Insert text appeared as link here\</a\>

→For example: Click here for Rickroll. Hope that will help you:wink:

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Ah, yes, standard html. Thank you so much, @MatthewMiles02127 .

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Now I have work to do creating links between my discussion threads. Just out of curiousity, Matt, where do you go for html for the symbols like the arrow in your above post, for exponent representation, fractions, math formulae,… Could we pull that resource “into the fold” and pair it with a comprehensive list/use guide of wikicode that can be rendered by the site software? It might be (How to) Code on wikiHow.

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You’re welcome, Ron:slight_smile:I know a little about HTML. These special symbols is (usually) created by typing &(ampersand), followed by “some kind of character code”, then a semicolon. For example, the right-arrow is created by typing →You can see more codes in this page: http://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/htmlchars.html This page also have HTML character codes, as well as HTML number: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm You can create an article about these stuff if no one similar is existing. I will drop by and give you a hand:slight_smile:Hope that will help you.:smiley:~Mathyoo

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I think that the symbols @MatthewMiles02127 linked might be mass added to the #whitelist and made easily accessible to all editors (maybe as a special page). Copy and paste would be quicker, be uniform, and would not be flagged in spellcheck. Perhaps acronyms already in the whitelist could be broken out into a similar list where each acronym would be supplemented by the full name (long name) in quotes. If a list such as this were made readily available/easily accessible, spellchecker might be bypassed in many cases.

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Sometime I try to add special symbols to the whitelist, and seems like it’s impossible. Maybe the whitelist doesn’t accept those characters?

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I think @Krystle maintains the whitelist and would be the one to add the symbols in bulk. (Correct me if I am wrong).

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I guess so (I’m not sure). So we should inform her about this:slight_smile:

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Yes, unfortunately that is one of the shortcomings of our whitelist. It can’t process symbols:frowning:

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Yeah, hope it will be upgraded. Have a great day Krystie and Ron:slight_smile: