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Formatting your forum posts Using minimal HTML and code formatting

HTML Formatting

Forum posts can be formatted with standard HTML tags making your posts more readable and better looking. This is sometimes called "rich text editing". Following tags are supported.

tag description example
a anchor tag for making links. links that leave Flowplayer website are launched to a new window and internal links are opened on the same window. 
<a href="http://mysite.com/example">
	see my example
</a>
strong bolded text. used to highlight important words this is <strong>important</strong>
samp highlight words in blue color. used to highlight code snippets that are inside the text. this is not used when placing sample code. see next chapter for that use <samp>setPlaylist</samp> method
ol numbered listing. use nested li elements for individual entries in the list 
<ul>
	<li>first entry</li>
	<li>second entry</li>
	<li>third entry</li>
</ul>
ul unordered listing. use nested li elements for individual entries in the list 
<ul>
	<li>first entry</li>
	<li>second entry</li>
	<li>third entry</li>
</ul>
em emphasizes text making it italic. yet another way to highlight text. used mainly to highligt sayings or phrases <em>A fool's paradise</em>

When you supply a tag that is not supported such as h1 it is shown on the page "as is" without the formatting effect making it look like <h1>this</h1>.

You can also generate links by writing your URL:s directly and they will be automatically generated. URL:s are detected when a string starts with http:// and https://. For example: http://mysite.com/example.

Syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting is easy on our forums. When you want to show your source code to others it should always be nested inside code tag. This makes you code automatically highlighted with color formatting making it much easier to read. Here are examples

JavaScript code

<code>
  $f().getClip(0).update({duration: 5});
</code>

HTML code

<code class="html">
  
  <h3>Here is your sample HTML code</h3>

  <!-- a sample player container -->
  <a id="playerContainer" href="my/video.flv">
  	<img src="img/splash.jpg" border="0" />
  </a>
</code>

The class attribute specifies which language you are using so it can be highlighted correclty. Currently supported languages are javascript, html, java, php and mysql. If you don't supply a class name the code is assumed to be JavaScript. By using code tags you don't need to hassle with "<" and ">" characters because they are automatically encoded for you.