Control of format in Posting???

Hi Everyone,

I've been trying to find out how to better format things in posts. The editor icons show some obvious stuff. But I would really like to be able to better control placement of Images etc. If anyone can point to some how-to on this it would be appreciated.

So I get home some markup works, like BLUE etc.

And I figured out how to cut down the visibility of long URLs by doing Stuff like THIS:

But images are always inline and take up lots of vertical space. So any explanation of them is hard to read at the same time. I WISH an image could be placed left or right and have text next to it. Any ideas?

Testing123:

This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image

So I can put the image left, center or right, but no text next to it.. Hmmm...

(That part above was done like this:)

[left]This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image[/left][center][img]http://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/file/view/Complete3-300.jpg/499207932/Complete3-300.jpg[/img][/center]

OK, no biggie and I don't expect this to look like Design News magazine, but it would be nice to have some better control. Many blog/forum systems do allow some formatting.

This forum system appears to be from These Guys

This forum system appears to be fromĀ  [url=http://www.simplemachines.org/][blue]These Guys[/blue][/url]

Any suggestions welcome, but it's not worth sweating too much..

Thanks!

Hi Terry,

check out - http://docs.simplemachines.org/?topic=57.0 -

The "align" attribute appears to be missing from the "image" mark-up. I doubt you can insert it; this seems to have been lost from many BBS applications. I don't know if it is technically "deprecated" in later HTML in favour of some other arrangement;I cannot see why it should be but ....

If you can figure it out, the logical approach is to use a table - that does seem to be offered according to the manual link above.

This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.

  • This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.
  • This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.
  • This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.
  • This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.

CENTERED TEXT
This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.


One could create a basic web page by putting everything within a table. Just put the column command around several sections of text and there will be 2 columns. Can insert images, etc. into any column. Can nest the BBCodes.

How it looks when entered:

[table]
[td]This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.
[list]
[li][b][i]This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.[/i][/b][/li]
[li][glow=yellow,2,300]This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.[/glow][/li]
[li][move][color=blue]This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.[/color][/move][/li]
[li][color=green][b]This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.[/b][/color][/li]
[/list]
[center][size=24pt][b][color=teal][u]CENTERED TEXT[/u][/color][/b][/size]
This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image. This is some text that I really wish was aligned with the image.[/center][/td] 
[td][img]http://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/file/view/Complete3-300.jpg/499207932/Complete3-300.jpg[/img][/td] 
[/table]

Cool!