# Practice post

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 21, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875 "2005-01-21T05:30:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_Handle_the_Truth)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875/1 "2005-01-21T05:30:06Z")

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Just playing around with message features!

[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns]Here[/URL

[ul]  
[li]Item 1[/li][li]Item 2[/li][li]Item 3[/li][/ul]

I am aligned  
to the center  
of the page  
whoop-dee-doo!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875/2 "2005-01-23T22:07:42Z")

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> [@Can Handle the Truth](#):
>
> Just playing around with message features!
> 
> [Here](http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns)
> 
> [ul]  
> [li]Item 1[/li][li]Item 2[/li][li]Item 3[/li][/ul]
> 
> I am aligned  
> to the center  
> of the page  
> whoop-dee-doo!

Missed one bracket. Click on the small reply button to see which one. (But, you probably already figured it out, I’m sure.)

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875/3 "2005-01-23T22:08:50Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Missed one bracket. Click on the small reply button to see which one. (But, you probably already figured it out, I’m sure.)

Sorry! Forgot what board I was on. :smack: It was the closing bracket for the url line.

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**Author:** ![deena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@deena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deena)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875/4 "2005-01-27T12:59:35Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Sorry! Forgot what board I was on. :smack: It was the closing bracket for the url line.

Good job. Practice makes perfect! 😛

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**Author:** ![deena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@deena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deena)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875/5 "2005-01-27T13:22:50Z")

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More testing.

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**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/285875/6 "2005-01-27T13:31:06Z")

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You’re aware of the ‘preview post’ button just to the right of ‘submit’, right? 🙂

It works for everything -  
font size

spoiler boxes

**colours** … you name it. Technically, you don’t need to \*make \* a post to \*test \* a post.