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Post by asakawa

I was hoping to find a thread which set out all the BBCodes and other formatting that are usable by regular users but don't have buttons above the edit box.
Since I didn't find one I thought I would start it!

Hopefully other users (and even mods/admins) will chip in with some that they know and we can make a reasonably complete list.

Table of Contents

Forum BBCode Tags

\\ - horizontal rule
\\ - line break
\\ - preserved format text
\\ - subscript and \\ - superscript
\\ - until/since
\\ - intra-post links
\\ - hidden text
\\ - insert
\\ - delete
\\ - tooltips
\\ - tables
Doing more with Tables
Formatting tips/tricks
Non-breaking space
Linking to posts
Displaying tags instead of processing them
Wowhead item links
Wowhead tooltips
Doing more with Wowhead's Links system
Hearthstone linking options
Guide Writers' BBCodes
\\ - tabbed content
\\ - toggled content
\\ - divisions
\\ - adding icons from the database
\\ - images
\\ - Tables of Content
\\ - Tooltips

\\
\\ ►

Items need a slot:
\\ ►

Valid slots:

1 - Helms 3 - Shoulders 4 - Shirts 5 - Chests
6 - Belts 7 - Pants 8 - Boots 9 - Bracers
10 - Gloves 13 - Main (right) hand 14 - Shields 15 - Bows
16 - Cloaks 19 - Tabards 20 - Robes 21 - Right hand
22 - Left hand 25 - Thrown

Itemsets provide a link instead of an image and the number you provide isn't the number for an itemset from the database but each item you want to be shown along with its slot (going itemset=slot,item,slot,item,etc):
\\ ►

The most important bit

The number you give isn't the number for the item or object or npc from the database but the number for the 3D model specifically.

So, one of my favourite items in the game is the Soul Harvester
But if we take the item's number (20536) and get the model for that we get:
What we need is not the itemID but the displayID. There isn't a very simple, easy way to get this number but what I do is view the page source for the modelviewer link where the displayID is listed. (I use Chrome to do this which has an option to view source when you right click. Other browsers have this option too).

I see there that it is 33087 which gives us

More assorted tags

\\Valor Points and \\0 Valor Points ► Valor Points and 0 Valor Points
\\ ►
\\center
(More on maps from Neutronimity)
▼
Click for examplecenter
\\content content ▼
Click for examplecontent content
\\ ►
\\ ►
\\ ►
\\ ►
\\ ►
Click for example
\\ ► automatically gives tables some extra formatting like a black background (grey mouseover) and an un-bevelled border.
\\ ► Inserts a thumbnail (by default) for one of the MANY screenshots in the database. Also has options Url/Thumb/Size/Width/Height/Float/Border

To be continued...

Many thanks to Koper, Alayton, Amamir, Pwntiff, ArgentSun and especially Kruga for their contributions!

Post by Koper

\\
\\
\\
(attributes: until, since, server); for example, time until my birthday:

In additions to the ones you mentioned, those are all of them.

Post by Fayne

Once upon a time, Wowhead had secret pages. One of these pages contained information on blog posting and the assorted tags that would make blog posts look nicer, such as image anchors.

Alas, the secret pages have been hidden away from regular users (to the best of my knowledge), at least, for now.

Post by asakawa

thanks koper!
i wonder if i could ask for more info on the \\ code?

what is the number you put in? seconds/minutes?
after playing with it for 10 minutes i wasn't able to get it to behave particularly predictably.

also, what does "\\" do and what should x equal?

Post by Amemir

what is the number you put in? seconds/minutes?

The number you use seems to be a unix timestamp converter

Post by asakawa

excellent, that makes more sense. thanks!

Post by asakawa

Smashing, thanks. i wasn't sure of the best place for the thread.

i've added the ones that came up but still unsure of the use of "server" with the \\ tag.
anyone got any ideas?

also if anyone has any suggestions for the general formatting tips section. i'm thinking specifically of tips/tricks that most forum-goers might not have come across.

Post by Avallen

I'll rip the secrets from your code!

Post by Pwntiff

You can omit www.wowhead.com from \\ tags. \\
You can link gems and enchants. \\ = Shadowmourne with three +20 STR gems and Berserking

A note on gems and enchants. Gems use the itemID, but enchants use the enchantID. You find the enchantID by going to the spell's page and finding it under "Effect: Enchant Item: <Name of Enchant> (enchantID)".

Post by asakawa

Made the additions. thanks all for the contributions

Post by Kruga

You can do even more with the Wowhead tooltips.

You can link to another domain of Wowhead without changing where the link goes to with "&domain=x"
The domains are: www, cata, ptr, de, es, fr, ru
German Shadowmourne (The link still leads the the english version)

Items
You can change level on heirlooms with "&lvl=x"
Level 20 Bloodied Arcanite Reaper

You can give belt, bracers and gloves an extra socket with "&sock"
Frayed Belt with socket

You can display other items in the set you have equipped with "&pcs=id:id:id:id"
Dreadnaught Helmet with chest, legs and feet

Some items have random enchants like Ulduar Greaves. You can add a random enchant with "&rand=x"
A list of suffix id can be found here and here.
Ulduar Greaves of Stamina

Spells
You can change the level of cataclysm spell with "&lvl=x"
Level 40 Flame Shock

You can link the buff effect of the spell with "&buff"
Blessing of Might buff

Achievements
You can show who earned the achievement with "&who=x" and "&when=x"
Who is the name of who earned the achievement, and when is the date in Unix Time with "000" after. (I think, it's not really working properly for me :S)
Bane of the Fallen King by me in the future

Post by asakawa

brilliant!

hope it's ok that i just quote that whole section.
i've précised the other contributions to make them fit the format of the thread but there's lots of good stuff in your post that won't be better served by me typing it out.

Post by asakawa

the use of \\ has been removed. see this thread

Post by Liquoid

hrr hrr

Post by zdouse

the use of \\ has been removed. see this thread

WTB

Post by asakawa

\\ is back

Post by Liquoid

Post by asakawa

added anchors

Post by zdouse

Add ?

Word of Recall (OLD)

Post by asakawa

this is undisplayed stuff.
the new links are right there above the edit box.

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