# Testing vB tags **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 17, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102 "2003-01-17T00:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/1 "2003-01-17T00:09:03Z")
**Bold** _Italic_ Underline\*\* [sup]Superscript[/sup] [sub]Subscript[/sub] Small size Large size Huge size Even bigger size not on offer in the list Arial font Courier font Century font Arial Black (not in list) [symbol]Symbol font[/symbol] (now redundant, as it can be done with font tag) Blue Red [Linkety link](http://www.straightdope.com) [EMAIL=yeah@NotARealOne.com]Email address ```auto Formatted Code ``` [ul][li]Bulleted List[/li][li]Item 2[/ul][/li][ol][li]Numbered List[/li][li]Item 2[/ol][/li][list=a][li]Alphabetic list[/li][li]Item 2 (or rather, b, I suppose)[/list][/li]:mad: 🆒 :o 🙂 ;j 😉 :smack: :dubious: :wally :rolleyes: 😛 😃 ☹ :eek: 😕 > [@](#): > > _(With Attribution)_ > For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/2 "2003-01-17T00:10:09Z")
dammit, I previewed that ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/3 "2003-01-17T00:56:26Z")
``` | | | | | | | | \ | \ | \------------------\ | \ |\| | | | | | | / | |/ /-------------------+-/ ``` /| |/ | | | | LEFT RIGHT EYE EYE ASCII art without using the code tag? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/4 "2003-01-17T00:57:29Z")
Nope ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/5 "2003-01-17T01:29:46Z")
Blue. Red. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/6 "2003-01-17T13:17:44Z")
Hmmm. I didn’t know one could do this with fonts. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent, the **comic sans font** … I wonder what the maximum size is… This is size=8. This is size=20. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/7 "2003-01-17T13:25:54Z")
Of course, if Comic Sans isn’t installed on the computer of the person viewing this thread, it won’t appear the same as on your screen - their browser will substitute something else. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/8 "2003-01-17T15:02:44Z")
\*\* Mangetout \*\* wrote > [@](#): > > dammit, I previewed that Now you see how handy one of these little translators would be. 😃 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/9 "2003-01-17T15:18:42Z")
That’s what this thread is for; I want to compare this page with the way that the program renders it. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/10 "2003-01-17T16:15:45Z")
\*\* Mangetout \*\* wrote > [@](#): > > That’s what this thread is for; I want to compare this page with the way that the program renders it. I had my suspicions, but didn’t want to be to big a pain in the butt. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/11 "2003-01-17T18:08:18Z")
I wanna know what that ASCII art was supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/12 "2003-01-17T18:53:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > > ```auto > > | | > | | > | | > | | > \ | \ | > \------------------\ | > \ |\| > | | > | | > | | > / | |/ > /-------------------+-/ > /| |/ > | | > | | > LEFT RIGHT > EYE EYE > > ``` I just quoted **Mangetout** and put in the code tags. What is that? Some sort of periscope? ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/13 "2003-01-17T19:43:58Z")
I think it is supposed to represent the way that visual signals travel through the brain. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/14 "2003-01-17T20:04:38Z")
Or not. Those diagonals look like they are meant to reflect stuff. Maybe it’s an elephant. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/15 "2003-01-17T20:05:07Z")
Umm… neat. Thanks **Achernar**. I should have thought of that myself. I wasn’t sure if all his spacing would still be there. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/16 "2003-01-17T21:50:14Z")
It’s **Mangetout** ’s scheme to swap the input to his eyes without actually swapping them. ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/17 "2003-01-17T22:19:47Z")
[ol][li]1[/li][li]2[/li]peridot[/ol] ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/18 "2003-01-18T08:25:46Z")
You forgot this rather dignified looking font… ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/19 "2003-01-18T08:32:39Z")
[sup]Think I’ll try it a little smaller…[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-vb-tags/149102/20 "2003-01-21T00:53:41Z")
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