Posting tags in message boards

[aldog]

for the last little while i've been posting tags in html help message boards...to...well...help people on message boards with html....but when i do so i usually post like this:
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

< player showDisplay="yes" showPlaylist="yes" autoStart="yes">

with spaces after the < in order for it to show up...i was wondering how you post html so you don't have to put spaces in...cause when dealing with certain people, it's hard enough explaining to them the tags, let alone that the have to get rid of all the spaces.

[Man1c M0g]

There is a special CODE tag in vbulletin. Its a bit like HTML - before your code place [ code ], and afterwards [ /code ] (remove the spaces).

If you do this, your code will post like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<player showDisplay="yes" showPlaylist="yes" autoStart="yes">

[aldog]

Thanks Man1c!
problem partially solved, anyone with help in regards to other types of message boards?

[Man1c M0g]

Afraid not m8! Each message board is its own kingdom really. There should be an instructions page accessible SOMEWHERE though...

[aldog]

what if the message board is all html...as in (i'm pretty sure on this) you could do a code to make tables round(just trying to show people) and it would show up IN THAT post...as in THOSE TABLES would be round tables....so...i guess what i'm asking, is say you have a website and are trying to show html...how would you go about that.

[scrowler]

if your message board is html enabled, you could make a php script and run your code through it to entisize it.

PHP Code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST["submit"])){ echo '<pre>' . htmlentities(trim($_POST["data"])). '</pre>'; }
echo '<form action="'.$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"].'" method="post">
<p>Enter HTML code:<br />
<textarea name="data" cols="40" rows="12"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Entisize!" /></p>';
?>

[aldog]

Hmm, intersting, that's just about exaclty what i was looking for, just didn't expect it to be in that form.
THANKS SCROWLER AND MANIC!!!