The tag FAQ (embedding content)
Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 17:32
As we have a lot of ways to embed content on this forum, maybe a quick "1 post" refresher course is in order.
The nudity tag: place your image between img-tags
or your image attachment inline and copy this inbetween the nudity tags, like this:Important: make sure, the attachment is placed inline, otherwise it still shows up as a normal attachment.
The hideme tag: very similar to the nudity tag with a different text ("Hidden content").
place your image between img-tags
or your image attachment inline and copy this inbetween the hideme tags, like this:Important: make sure, the attachment is placed inline, otherwise it still shows up as a normal attachment.
To resize external images use the rimg-tag, you specify the new width of the image as it should appear in the post, the height is resized proportionally where you obviously replace the text "width" by a number specifying the number of pixels of the width you want.
Note: the rimg-tag doesn't work with attachments only with external images.
To "embed" a specific tweet: get yourself the number shown in the URL after "status/" and put it between tweet tags. For example:
To embed a sketchfab model:
Lastly: If you're in the post editor and you hover over one of the tag buttons,
a short line of help is displayed below the buttons...
- First up, not technically for embedding: links must be embedded inbetween URL tags
otherwise they don't show up as links anymore, just as plain text...if you're using the subsilver2 board style, your link not turning orange is a dead giveaway that you forgot to use these tags...Code: Select all
[url]www.si-community.com[/url]
Next: the following tags work by placing the whole URL inbetween them:ALL-NEW:Code: Select all
[img]URL[/img] [wmv]URL[/wmv] [flv]URL[/flv]
, works for youtube and Vimeo both...Code: Select all
[video]URL[/video]
The following two video related tags are considered deprecated.
The following tags take only their respective ID's between the tags
the vimeo ID is the last part of the URL, after "vimeo.com/"Code: Select all
[vim]vimeo ID[/vim]
the youtube ID is the last part of the URL, after "watch?v="[/i][/size]Code: Select all
[youtube]youtube ID[/youtube]
In the case of the flvprev tags, you take the URL, but strip off the ".flv" end...Code: Select all
[flvprev]partial URL[/flvprev]
In the case of flash you provide the whole URL, but you also provide the width and the heightCode: Select all
[flash=width,height]URL[/flash]
of the flash file you want to embed in the flash tag after the "=" sign.Code: Select all
For example:[flash=200,200]URL[/flash]
The nudity tag: place your image between img-tags
or your image attachment inline and copy this inbetween the nudity tags, like this:
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[nudity][img]URL[/img][/nudity]
or
[nudity][attachment=0]someimage.jpg[/attachment][/nudity]
The hideme tag: very similar to the nudity tag with a different text ("Hidden content").
place your image between img-tags
or your image attachment inline and copy this inbetween the hideme tags, like this:
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[hideme][img]URL[/img][/hideme]
or
[hideme][attachment=0]someimage.jpg[/attachment][/hideme]
To resize external images use the rimg-tag, you specify the new width of the image as it should appear in the post, the height is resized proportionally
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[rimg=width]URL[/rimg]
Note: the rimg-tag doesn't work with attachments only with external images.
To "embed" a specific tweet: get yourself the number shown in the URL after "status/" and put it between tweet tags. For example:
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[tweet]291336341420113921[/tweet]
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[sketchfab]Model id[/sketchfab]
a short line of help is displayed below the buttons...