What are the Special Codes?
The special codes are special implementations of HTML tags. The special codes are similar in style to HTML: tags are enclosed in square braces [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. HTML tags are not allowed in this site.

How to create bold, italic and underlined text.
The special codes include tags to allow you to quickly change the basic style of your text. This is achieved in the following ways:

• To make a piece of text bold enclose it in [b][/b], eg.
  
  [b]Hello[/b]
  
  will become Hello
• For underlining use [u][/u], for example:
  
  [u]Good Morning[/u]
  
  becomes Good Morning
• To italicise text use [i][/i], eg.
  
  This is [i]Great![/i]
  
  would give This is Great!

How to change the text colour or size.
To alter the color or size of your text the following tags can be used. Keep in mind that how the output appears will depend on the viewers browser and system:

• Changing the colour of text is achieved by wrapping it in [color=][/color]. The following colors are the only allowed ones: red, green, blue, white, black, violet, yellow, brown and orange.
  
  Example:
  
  [color=red]Hello![/color]
  
  will both output Hello!
  
  But:
  
  [color=cyan]Hello![/color]
  
  will both output [color=dark red]Hello![/color]!, since cyan color is not allowed.
  
• Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using [size=][/size]. Seven sizes are allowed, from 1 to 7.
  For example:
  
  [size=1]SMALL[/size]
  
  will generally be SMALL
  
  whereas:
  
  [size=7]HUGE![/size]
  
  will be HUGE!

Can I combine formatting tags?
Yes, of course you can; for example to get someones attention you may write:

[size=4][color=red][b]LOOK AT ME![/b][/color][/size]

this would output LOOK AT ME!

We don't recommend you output lots of text that looks like this, though! Remember that it is up to you, the poster, to ensure that tags are closed correctly. For example, the following is incorrect:

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u]

Quote
You can quote in two ways, saying the author of the quote or not doing it.

•  First way: [quote=""][/quote]. Examplo:
  [quote="Peter"]What Peter said[/quote]
•  Second way: [quote][/quote]

Code
Similar to [quote][/quote]. Commands are [code][/code]. This commands are used to write some code you want to emphasize.Example:

[code]echo 'That\'s code.';[/code]

Unordered list
To create an unordered list use [list][/list] to end/finish the list and [*] to introduce elements of the list. Example:

[list]
[*]Peter
[*]John
[*]Albert
[/list]

will produce:

• Peter
• John
• Albert

Ordered list
To create an unordered list use [list=1][/list] or [list=a][/list].
Examples:

[list=1]
[*]Peter
[*]John
[*]Albert
[/list]

will produce:

1. Peter
2. John
3. Albert

1. Peter
2. Juan
3. Albert

Adding an image to a post
The special codes incorporates a tag for including images in your posts. Two very important things to remember when using this tag are: many users do not appreciate lots of images being shown in posts and second, the image you display must already be available on the Internet (it cannot exist only on your computer, for example, unless you run a webserver!). You cannot host your images in this site. To display an image, you must surround the URL pointing to the image with [img][/img] tags. For example:

[img]http://www.annalsofporn.com/forum/smile.gif[/img]

will produce