What do these forum tags do? [Archive]

franpa

23 Jul 2009, 10:09

[note]
[light]
[big]

http://forum.team17.co.uk/misc.php?do=bbcode

They seem to do absolutely nothing at all.

Here is what is used above ^
[small]They seem to do absolutely nothing at all.

yakuza

23 Jul 2009, 10:12

they do nothing at all

edit: absolutely nothing at all

franpa

23 Jul 2009, 10:13

Why are they there then? also how do you get your font small like in signatures?

also edited OP.

Melon

23 Jul 2009, 10:18

seems to work, it makes your text the same colour as that in your signature.

[light]Test test test test test test

I guess signatures are just coded to use a different size?

franpa

23 Jul 2009, 10:20

Light doesn't work here, default forum theme ._.

yakuza

23 Jul 2009, 10:22

Hey why did team17 operators leave unused stuff in their vbulletin forum application.

OUTRAGEOUS

WAIT, there must be a secret meaning to all of this, I'LL ASK FELLOW FORUM USERS USING THE THREAD MAKING MEDIUM GO franpa GO

Melon

23 Jul 2009, 10:37

Light doesn't work here, default forum theme ._.
Ah well there's no excuse to not be using the awesome theme of purpley goodness. It's the price you pay for using sucky themes. ;)

thomasp

23 Jul 2009, 10:44

I believe they used to be used, many moons ago, probably back in APJ's time. Small did exactly what it said on the tin and made the text smaller (signature sized I believe); note did the same but also made it signature-text coloured; light was a less bright version of bright and big, well, made the text big.

If I remember correctly, the logic for introducing small & big was that there was a lot of abuse with the forum's [size=x] tag, where you could enter any number and end up with either absolutely huge or very tiny text which was just plain annoying!

Edit:

Just to add, I have no idea why they've been disabled now. Probably broke when we upgraded to vB3.0 and Sel/APJ never re-enabled them :p

Plasma

23 Jul 2009, 10:54

Light doesn't work here, default forum theme ._.
It works on the default theme, but its hardly noticeable. Its just slightly greyer than normal.

Hey why did team17 operators leave unused stuff in their vbulletin forum application.
OUTRAGEOUS
WAIT, there must be a secret meaning to all of this, I'LL ASK FELLOW FORUM USERS USING THE THREAD MAKING MEDIUM GO franpa GO
Pretty much what he said, only without the smarm. A PM to Volcadmin would've been a better idea.

yakuza

23 Jul 2009, 11:05

Pretty much what he said, only without the smarm. A PM to Volcadmin would've been a better idea.

and then, after a decade of wait, Plasma finally got a chance to use the word smarm, and somewhere, because of this, beyond the realm of human thought, Shakespeare shed a single tear.

Plasma

23 Jul 2009, 11:24

and then, after a decade of wait, Plasma finally got a chance to use the word smarm, and somewhere, because of this, beyond the realm of human thought, Shakespeare shed a single tear.
I wasn't waiting for ages to say it. It was just today's Sesame Street's word of the day!

WAIT I MEAN-

robowurmz

23 Jul 2009, 11:34

OH SNAP!
caps

Alien King

23 Jul 2009, 11:41

They seem to do absolutely nothing at all.

[small] and [note] appear to do nothing, but [light] is making your text appear signature like and is making it bigger.

Am I the only one who is seeing the [big]big tag work?

Plasma

23 Jul 2009, 11:46

Huh. [big] works for me in Opera and IE, but not in Chrome.

yakuza

23 Jul 2009, 11:47

Maybe we should start a wikipedia with the knowledge gained from this thread

franpa

23 Jul 2009, 13:06

It works on the default theme, but its hardly noticeable. Its just slightly greyer than normal.
True, increasing my monitors brightness better clarifies the difference.

Muzer

23 Jul 2009, 15:51

Big definitely works!

Light works too, but is very subtle, especially on Retro Purple

Note does nothing

As does small

^^ Opera 9.64 Kubuntu 9.04

EDIT: Here is the HTML for this post, maybe this could shed some light:
<div id="post_message_700383">

Big definitely works! 
 
Light works too, but is very subtle, especially on Retro Purple 
 
Note does nothing 
 
As does small 
 
 
^^ Opera 9.64 Kubuntu 9.04
</div>

yakuza

23 Jul 2009, 15:57

this is what note does noobs:

www.lol.com/lol.jpg

Muzer

23 Jul 2009, 16:12

this is what note does noobs:

www.lol.com/lol.jpg

It's obvious from the HTML, and the name of the tag, that this wasn't its original intention, just a side-effect. I believe thomasp is correct, but that it was designed for quoting non-forum sources.

Plasma

24 Jul 2009, 01:09

So whats the difference between the code for them and the code for things like highlight and bright?

Edit: ah, there's the problem. A later version of vB replaced "font class" with "span class" for functions. That, and it should also be "smallfont" now, not "smallwords".

MtlAngelus

24 Jul 2009, 04:59

Big definitely works!

Doesn't work in safari, neither in my version of Opera in XP, although I haven't updated it in ages. It does work on the Wii web browser tho. :p

Edit: It also works in the DS-i browser. :cool:

franpa

24 Jul 2009, 06:12

none work in firefox 3.51

SgtFusion

25 Jul 2009, 00:14

[light] and [big] work in Internet Explorer.

yakuza

25 Jul 2009, 13:08

someone test it with chrome please, we must be sure

GrimOswald

25 Jul 2009, 13:34

someone test it with chrome please, we must be sure

Who knows what hangs in the balance!

*Tests*

None of them worked. :(

Plasma

25 Jul 2009, 15:25

someone test it with chrome please, we must be sure
*ah HEM*
Huh. [big] works for me in Opera and IE, but not in Chrome.

MtlAngelus

26 Jul 2009, 01:11

What about the Dreamcast web browser? I guess we'll never know...

GrimOswald

26 Jul 2009, 05:13

What about the Dreamcast web browser? I guess we'll never know...

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CHALLENGE!

*Fires up Dreamcast*

Shirdel

26 Jul 2009, 09:24

PSP/Mobile next. Please.

SupSuper

26 Jul 2009, 16:23

Only [light] works in Opera Mini.

Roboslob

26 Jul 2009, 18:44

Only light works in the PSP browser, and no I didn't go out of my way to check, I almost come here via psp.

yakuza

26 Jul 2009, 20:45

Someone try the "[light]" one with a Nokia 5800 Express Music, I've been wondering all night if that one works with said phone.

thanks in advance

Xinos

26 Jul 2009, 20:51

This thread is so fascinating.

Plasma

26 Jul 2009, 23:16

Schrodinger's Tab.

wormthingy

29 Jul 2009, 20:59

i deeply love you guys. seriously.

oh and to stay on topic, light and bright work here too, on safari 4, mac os x leopard. the rest doesn't

FutureWorm

4 Aug 2009, 03:49

*ah HEM*
nobody cares about what you have to post

*Splinter*

7 Aug 2009, 16:14

nobody cares about what you have to post

Second'd .

Swed Simon

8 Aug 2009, 21:41

woah man that was cutting
Someday we'll be as edgy and in-your-face as him.

Edit:
Someday.

Alien King

9 Aug 2009, 00:43

...

Wait... you? What!?

FutureWorm

12 Aug 2009, 00:45

Someday we'll be as edgy and in-your-face as him.

Edit:
Someday.
oh my god bro i haven't seen you in like forever

FutureWorm

14 Aug 2009, 14:53

i missed you fellow senior
whose alt are you, then?

Vader

14 Aug 2009, 19:31

Seriously. This thread. Serious.

FutureWorm

14 Aug 2009, 22:08

...........................lol
ahahah get re-banned asshole