This is a very basic question, but I couldn’t seem to find it anywhere. The post instructions that I did find on here don’t work. I want to have a specific post have big text, I tried BBCode / markdown [size=40][/size] etc but it doesn’t work. I tried etc, nothing works! How can I control the font size for particular strings of text in a post?

This would work: This is a quote This is a quote What are you trying to do?

One option is to use and tags Examples: this text is large this text is large This text is small This text is small

[image] lll: That did the trick! Thank you much! How about making quotes, without using the quote button? Is there a tag for that?

Additionally, If you start a new line with a > it will create a blockquote — Discourse supports bbcode, (some) HTML, and Markdown… but generally Markdown is the simplest way to format content. You can find a quick reference and a tutorial here: Markdown Reference

Yes, I actually found it just before you posted that. Thank you though!

Now, what about the quote markdown, what would that be in html? for example [quote=“user1, post:66, topic:52”] ? Basically, if [quote=“user1, post:66, topic:52”] is the input then what is the output in raw code/html? I’m trying to detect when someone quotes, but I’m not picking up anything beginning with [quote= when posted.

A quote from a specific user / post gets converted into an element with the class quote Inside that there are different elements like a div that holds the meta information like user avatar and name and a that holds the actual quote Something like this: [Capture] And that’s what it looks like in html: lll: <big>

Thanks, that is the html, but my bot doesn’t recognize any part of that or the [quote]. Anyhow, this might be more on the bot side of things than just the html or markdown itself. Thank you anyhow!

Have a look at this BBCode plugin [image] Discourse BBCode Plugin information_source Summary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts. discourse2 Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Enterprise plans mechanic Self-host Install Install plugins on a self-hosted site hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode The Discourse BBCode plugin enhances the Markdown composer [1] with support for the BBCode syntax beyond what is included by default (i.e. [i], [b], [s], [u], […

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jhjln87 (jhjln87 ) April 28, 2019, 2:14am 10

What about any text size? I’ve seen someone do smaller than small in a website using this domain.

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