# how to post in smaller font sizes **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 22, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983 "2001-03-22T11:05:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/1 "2001-03-22T11:05:11Z")
The vB code doesn’t explain how to post in smaller fonts or sub/superscript form. could someone explain please? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/2 "2001-03-22T11:42:04Z")
Search and you shall [find.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50415) ---
**Author:** ![Bawdysurfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90db22/32.png) [@Bawdysurfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bawdysurfer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/3 "2001-03-22T11:43:37Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=63164) satisfied the needs of many. Remember, if you select the “quote” function above a post where you’re not sure how something was done, you will see the code that got the results that interest you. ---
**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/4 "2001-03-22T12:13:48Z")
[sub]Thanks[/sub] [sup]guys.[/sup] [sub][sup]I appreciate it![/sup][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/5 "2001-03-23T21:41:30Z")
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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/6 "2001-03-23T21:47:52Z")
Uh oh. How’d I screw up the view by making the post so wide? Mods, please to be fixing my mistake! Well, let’s at least try this again: me ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/7 "2001-03-23T21:57:39Z")
Okay, why didn’t that work? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/8 "2001-03-23T23:32:00Z")
OK, easy one first, then I’ll figure out the wide screen thing. Unlike website hotlinks, email hotlinks don’t take quotation marks. So I’ve removed them below. Also, you don’t type “url” but rather “email,” so I’ve made that change. And you don’t type “mailto” or the equal sign or the colon. Oh, and you can’t do it “imbedded” in another word, so the “me” had to go. Now for your project: From the way the above paragraph is typed, try to figure out how many times I had to hit “preview” before I finally got it right. 😃 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jodi \* > \*\*Uh oh. How’d I screw up the view by making the post so wide? Mods, please to be fixing my mistake! > > Well, let’s at least try this again: > > [jhinmt@yahoo.com](mailto:jhinmt@yahoo.com) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/9 "2001-03-23T23:37:21Z")
OK. The problem that made your first post so wide is that text-wrap is turned off inside the “code” command, so you have to insert hard returns. Hey. I learned two new things today. Off to fix some old threads… ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-post-in-smaller-font-sizes/58983/10 "2001-03-24T02:32:24Z")
Don’t go changing too much stuff. You can embed _mailto:_ in a URL statement. Jodi’s only problem was where she put the quotes. You quote everything between the equal sign and the close bracket. Like so: **[[url="mailto:jhinmt@yahoo.com](mailto:url=%22mailto:jhinmt@yahoo.com)"]me[/url]** gives you this: **[me](mailto:jhinmt@yahoo.com)** Jim