If you scroll down to the yellow block under the posting box, you can see which tags are allowed.

But wait, let me test it out, to make sure they all work, since I have never seen them used:

<blockquote>Blockquotes may come in handy!</blockquote>

Renders:

Blockquotes may come in handy!

Links are automatically rendered. I use no tag to show this link: http://www.pinside.com

However, the 'a' tag is allowed allowing you to do this

<a href="http://pinside.com">pinball</a>!

which renders this:

pinball!

We also have ul and ol with li:

<ul>
<li>List item a</li>
<li>List item b</li>
<li>List item c</li>
</ul>

Renders:

• List item a
• List item b
• List item c

But you could also use ol to get an ordered list.

Code can be done with backticks. If you're a coder you should be able to find that character:

This is some code
I hope it formats well

I have never felt the need for <b>bold</b> or <i>italics</i>.
But if there is a good reason to do so I would happily implement it for you!

Well the commands described in my post are all basically your standard HTML tags. I have just decided not to support them all

For example, <font> and <h1> and other tags like that allow people to do crazy stuff in their post, but are often mis-used. I decided to keep the forum posts as clean as possible - usability is key here!

The url tag you mentioned is not part of a real standard but often used in forums. It is kind of like the language "markdown" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown). It creates a new kind of formatting language which supposedly is easier to use. I don't fully agree (although the previous version of the Pinside website had a story editor that worked with this type of formatting).

I am trying to publish a manual for a home ROM as a set of Pinside posts. For this it would be useful to be able to use bold and/or italics to mark specific key words. At the moment I am using CAPS and fixed font for this, but bold and italics stand out more.

Much more importantly, I have not found a way to make a table with vertically aligned columns. The simplest would be to have a fixed font available. I was hoping to use to the backtics for this, but the backtics compact any white space.

You can use < strong > bold < /strong > and < em > italics. < /em >

(remove spaces from tags)

Thanks! Anything else that is not documented in this thread?