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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by admin

      In Chrome I saw this differently, and I tried `

      ` - it didn't work right.
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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by admin

        Does anybody know if there's a way to make a textual tooltip like with"<abbr></abbr>" on MyOpera - other than messing with the Markdown links syntax (...)?

        Just found a tip:

        ...

        ...
        Who knows how to make such a tooltip under a forum smilie?

        Just managed to make a smilie tooltipped: when you insert one, it puts itself embraced with spaces - one on each side β€” just have them included along with your smilie within the <abbr> - that's it

        And besides, I just saw a normal "XP" word in the "Windows" section posted in a comment. Let me try if they've "remedied" the smilie's code:

        XP
        πŸ˜•
        It works! :idea:
        Let me see the smilie then? " :XP: " – yey! :cheers:
        Thanks, dudes! :drunk:

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          Let me try local links syntax if it works [right] here:

          A link to my previous comment here.
          (It seems working - though may "enhance" the actual URL somehow.) Add.--> No, something's wrong. Trying to edit so that... Deleted "comment" from the URl...
          Yes, now it's actually working: the resulted URL has to be the same - that first time I got an error page...

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Checking if the "target" attribute works here:
            [this link is to a tiny image, and presumably should open in a new tab/window](http://www.listenlive.eu/wma.gif" target="_blank).
            Looks like it's working! πŸ†™

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Checking <dl>:

              A dialogue

              <dl>
              <dt>:bandit:</dt>
              <dd>This is bullshit!</dd>
              <dt>:sherlock:</dt>
              <dd>Really?</dd>
              </dl>
              Working - however, I can't see any outset <_<

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Opera should have chosen a better forum software, not this crappy one, should have gone with IPB, mybb or phpbb.

                Cant do anything much here, just type and submit.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  Well you can do almost everything you would expect to be able to do, if you don't mind manually putting markdown code into your posts, but I agree it's far from ideal, and beyond the knowledge of many people, who must, like yourself, see this forum as being very crude and basic indeed.
                  πŸ™‚

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    It would be o'k if the Markdown markup properly [and fully] worked, but it rather doesn't - in cases...

                    Let me try if the <span> element works here:

                    My <span style="color:red">Important</span> Heading

                    It doesn't... >_>

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                    • sgunhouse
                      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      The software can also support BBcode; it was Opera's choice to use Markdown.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Just was checking things: you need an empty line (two "enters"/linebreaks) preceeding a list to get it work. πŸ†™

                        Well, and it seems that to end the list - you're gonna need a spare line too. didn't work in my initial attempt now why I got here today.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          I've found a neat way to avoid spacing when you want to place a smilie straight next to your words or right after a punctuation mark: you embrace it (the smilie's code - without spaces) with asterisks - as if you wanted to "bolden" it (though such single boldening ain't working, actually).

                          *:smile:* πŸ™‚

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Let me try something:

                            .:yes:.
                            ,:yes:,

                            πŸ˜•

                            Nope...

                            .:yes:
                            ,:yes:
                            :yes:,
                            :yes:.

                            :yes:, the smilie's working if it's used as a word!:yes:

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by

                              @leocg:
                              Leo, your "numbers" input gives search links:

                              something #1, #2, etc.

                              I take we kinda can refer to search queries by using the "#" character - adding the intended search keyword without space: like

                              blah-blah-blah #plugin,
                              bluh-bluh-bluh #Flash,
                              etc;

                              though I also take it that such input inserts a "%23" character in front of the query, and I have no idea why it adds "Mode=like" and what it is for/what it does...

                              So I guess you can just insert a space after a "#" when you want to just number something in your replies:

                              something # 1, something # 2

                              :sherlock:

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                @charmbrights

                                To quote something, you can either use the "<blockquote>" HTML element - or highlight/select what you want to quote and click the grey Β«"Β» button that you can see beneath the user's postcount and/or badges (or you can just manually type ">" at a new line to insert a copied piece of text after it; don't forget that after a quotation you'll need an empty line to go on with your own posting).

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by admin

                                  @sidneyneto

                                  Sid, your "#1000" input creates a search link.
                                  You can use either spacing, or those "backlash apostrophes" or what it's called (```) to embrace the input:

                                  1. 1000

                                  1. #1000
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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    Check if a Markdown element's gonna work within another Markdown element:

                                    πŸ™‚ It works (an image element used within a link element - to make the image a link)!

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      wow, the forum stole the underscores in the filename o_O

                                      A feature of Markdown. The underscores are used for emphasisβ€”why the emphasis does not display on the forum I don't know. In any case, I escaped them for you.

                                      I'm using a site where the discussions is getting that Markdown or very similar in place of Textile. Underscores don't work properly there either - for now. May it be that it needs rendering improvement/amendment?

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                                      • ruario
                                        ruario last edited by

                                        May it be that it needs rendering improvement/amendment?

                                        Probably just a bug in our implementation. In fact emphasis not working with asterisk (*), underscore (_) and &lt;em&gt; appears to be the only thing seriously broken. The other issues seem (to me at least) to be in line with the Markdown "specification". Anyway, I'll see if I can get someone to fix that issue.

                                        P.S. I fixed your nested quoting for you. πŸ˜‰

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by admin

                                          Some links get corrupted/truncated - they say by this Markdown.
                                          To avoid that, one can use embracing such a link with angular brackets ("less" sign left & "more" sign right):

                                          <http://forums.opera.com/post/59153>

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                                          • blackbird71
                                            blackbird71 last edited by admin

                                            This is a test to see if the full link renders in Markdown from my Firefox 33.1.1 browser. In my https://forums.opera.com/post/59149 comment, the underscore symbol ahead of the final comment number of the link seems to translate as a blank in all my link references.

                                            So... I'll also try it with the brackets @joshl suggests: https://forums.opera.com/post/59149 and see what happens.

                                            (edit:) Hmmm!!! Utterly bizarre... both kind of links now render fine (at least here), though an hour ago, over in the Win Op forum, every one of my links rendered with a Markdown space ahead of the comment number (hence, breaking the links), even though in the "edit" mode, they all appeared correctly, showing the underscore in place. I've noticed this 'broken' link effect before, sporadically, in one or two of my earlier posts as well in that forum. I have no idea this occurs.

                                            (further edit: ) I guess I'll try to remember to use the angle-brackets @joshl suggests in the future to see if that will prevent a recurrence of the problem.

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