HTML you can use on ACO

This is particularly good for making your trading lists easy for everyone to read, but you can also use these tips in any post you make on ACO. Please be aware that you must be a REGISTERED MEMBER to post anything on this site, this is to prevent spam.

This is not a comprehensive guide, but every tag you can use is covered here. Some tags you cannot use. For example, you cannot make HTML tables on ACO. Also, there are some special tags you can use that you cannot use in other places (like special image links to the gallery).

Know a lot about HTML already? Here are the tags you can use:
<a> <em><b><i><u><strong><s><cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><h1><h2><h3><font><hr>

ACO will automatically break lines, so you do not need the BR tag or the P tag. Conveinant! If you put them in (copy and paste, for example), ACO will ignore them, and they will not show up.

Don't know much about HTML? It is very simple! HTML is about OPENING tags, and CLOSING tag. An OPENING tag says 'this style starts here!' and a CLOSING tag says 'this style ENDS here'. You must open and close EVERY tag (except LI and HR tags). A lot of mistakes are made because of typos! Please be careful. :)

Here are some basic examples. These are not everything you can do with these tags, but just some examples of what these tags do.

FONT STYLES

Make text italic with an EM tag.
Make text italic with an I tag.

Make text bold with a STRONG tag.
Make text bold with a B tag.

Strike it out with a S tag

<em>Make text italic with an EM tag.</em><i>Make text italic with an I tag.</i><strong>Make text bold with a STRONG tag.</strong><b>Make text bold with a B tag.</b><s>Strike it out with a S tag</s>

Change the font color, face (type), and size. Change it all at once!

Change the font <font color="red">color</font>, <font face="courier">face (type)</font>, and <font size="4">size</font>.  <font color="green" face="fantasy" size="4">Change it all at once!</font>

LISTS

Unordered lists (no numbers)

• start and end with an UL tag.
• Mark each point with an LI tag.

Ordered lists

1. Start and end with an OL tag.
2. Mark each number with an LI tag.

Unordered lists (no numbers)<ul><li>start and end with an UL tag.<li>Mark each point with an LI tag.</ul>Ordered lists<ol><li>Start and end with an OL tag.<li>Mark each number with an LI tag.</ol>

URLs and e-mail addresses

URLs and e-mail addresses are automatically converted to links.

http://www.animecards.org < this works.
www.animecards.org < this also works.

Super long links get cut off, so please be careful.

Or, you can...

Make a link with an A tag!
Make it open in a new window

<a href="http://www.animecards.org">Make a link with an A tag!</a><a href="http://www.animecards.org" target="_blank">Make it open in a new window</a>

Tip:
Enable your Contact Form on ACO (see my account). This way other members can contact you without knowing your email address. To prevent spam, however, only registered members can use contact forms.

Use the format above to link to items in the Scans Gallery (the above is an image, sorry, you can't copy and paste!). This code will give us a clickable images. You can link to sets, series, certain scans, whatever. You can find the ID by going to the gallery. It should be listed underneath the item, but if it isn't, you can find it in the URL too.

You can do funky things with more advanced options. Please see this page for a good explanation.

You can upload images or files to your post by clicking 'File attachments'.

What you can't do

You can't link to images directly using the IMG tag, and you cannot create tables using the TABLE tag.

Please let me know if you have any problems.