Formatting Changes & You

[Bee]

Per Lucid's announcement, I'm here to spread the gospel of XenForo and help everyone get ready for the change. By now you've all heard that we'll be switching over to a new framework that doesn't support the tables we know and love. And while that sucks, it really is for the greater good: XenForo is flippin' sweet and even a table-less existence on XF is way more fun and featured than what we have on vBulletin now. While it means that nearly every template we have on the site is going to break, we've come up with a couple of great workarounds and added a ton of exciting features to get everyone hyped about the change.

Stuff That Isn't Changing
The following tags will function exactly the same on XenForo as they did on vBulletin. Text formatting, spoilers, abbreviations, anchor links - they're all still here.

[noparse][B]Bold[/B] - Makes your text bold.
[I]Italic[/I] - Makes your text slanted, or italic.
[U]Underline[/U] - Underlines your text.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/L44ohTQ.jpg[/IMG] - Embed an image.
[URL]http://www.google.com/[URL] - Link to a page.

[COLOR=yellow]Colors text via name.[/color]
[COLOR="#ffff00"]Colors text via hex code.[/color]

[SIZE="1"]Font sizing.[/size]

[CENTER]Alignment - Center[/CENTER] 
[LEFT]Alignment - Left[/LEFT]
[RIGHT]Alignment - Right[/RIGHT]
[JUSTIFY]Alignment - Justify[/JUSTIFY]

[ABBR="Text"]Abbreviation[/ABBR] - Abbreviated text.

[JUMPTO=anchor_1]Anchor link[/JUMPTO]
[ANAME=anchor_1]Anchor destination[/ANAME]
[SPOILER=SPOILS]SPOILER TEXT[/SPOILER][/noparse]

Stuff That Won't Work
Long story short: tables. Unfortunately, there's no way to make the same table codes we had on vBulletin work on XenForo. That isn't to say the feature is completely gone - we've come up with a few really fun workarounds - it's just fundamentally different from the system we use on vBulletin. What we have right now are very, very simple. They're good for making lists, but they are in no way, shape, or form able to be modified like the ones on vB are.

Shiny New Features!
While it isn't an entirely new feature, we've rewritten the floatleft and floatright tags. They'll work as intended on the XF site without resizing the images and making them look strange.

We've also enabled a wider range of font sizes, both large and small. You'll now be able to add a glowing effect to your text, and retain the ability to change the glow color, the font color, and all the applicable font formatting. It can be as subtle or as bright as you like, and it makes header text look fantastic.

Lucid touched on this in hist post, but one of the most exciting things about the XenForo switch is we'll have access to the entire Google Font Library. If you don't know what the GFL is, it's basically a big list of really cool fonts that web designers can use. You can find handwriting fonts, decorative fonts, fixed width fonts, and so on in the library, and using them will be as simple as using the current [FONT] tag.

Spoiler: Take a peek!

BEEBOXES
(updated: jul. 06!)
After reading the feedback in this thread, I've decided to spare you all the ridiculousness of a hundred different bbcodes with my name on them. While I won't bore everyone with the details, the naming convention is a lot simpler and intuitive, and you can also do a lot more fun stuff with them. Here's a quick preview of the codes and what they do!

[abox], [abox2], [abox3], [abox4]
- abox, transparent box
- abox2, transparent box w/border
- abox3, transparent box, centered
- abox4, transparent box, centered w/border

[beebox], [beebox2], [beebox3], [beebox4]
- beebox regular box (medium/light bg)
- beebox2 regular box w/ border
- beebox3, regular box, centered
- beebox4, regular box, centered w/border

[cbox], [cbox2], [cbox3], [cbox4]
- cbox, darkest background
- cbox2, darkest background w/border
- cbox3, darkest background, centered
- cbox4, darkest background, centered w/border

, [fancybox2]
- fancybox, box with double borders
- fancybox2, box with double borders r-img

 

[Wit]

 

[StandbyRanger]

 

[Commissar Brett]

NO TABLES?! How could you?

 

[Wit]

Sorry if this sounds rude, but there's also the fact that most of the users here didn't really use tables that extensively. People like Bee, Frank, FP and Saul made templates and everyone either used those or scavenged bits out of existing templates.

As I said in the other thread, for what people try to accomplish using tables the beeboxes should suffice. So this isn't really the end of the world.

 

[Galavant]

Traitor!

 

[Struggle wagon]

Traitor!

And right after I used your awesome templates.

 

[Lucid]

As the great philosopher Jagger once said:

"You can't always get what you want."

 

[Mistress]

It just occurred to me..
No more tidy signature.
;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;(

 

[Lucid]

These things happen >.>

 

[Outlander]

Question: What if we want to allign the stupidly named boxes on the right?

 

[Elijah Brockway]

it's all your fault lucid

you and bac

 

[Lucid]

Question: What if we want to allign the stupidly named boxes on the right?

My apologies for the naming system. We should of course, undo everything to appease your delicate sensibites. Given the hours of work Bee has put into this, she could write the tags in korean and I wouldn't care.

Also, [floatright] and [floatleft] will be your friends.

@Elijah: Such rage.

 

[Elijah Brockway]

such rage

very anger

much annoying

wow

>:c

are we gonna get right-aligned bee boxes

or the ability to put two beeboxes right next to each other on the same line

EDIT: Oh hey i actually read your post finally

lol

 

[Outlander]

I wasn't trying to be a prick or a prude. I was just referencing that it said in the demo itself that they where dumb names.

 

[Elijah Brockway]

I wasn't trying to be a prick or a prude. I was just referencing that it said in the demo itself that they where dumb names.

that's when you put quotation marks around "stupidly named boxes"

 

[Outlander]

Yeah. That was a bad on me :\

 

[Bee]

Those names will be my legacy. No one realized Van Gogh was a genius until after he died; so too will you only see the beauty of the beebox long after my time on SWRP has passed.

In all seriousness: I wanted something that would be really obvious (box sounded kinda generic) and Lucid vetoed using various SW fauna for the labeling. The float tags should give all the functionality a right aligned box would, but I'll test it out and if they don't, I'll see what we can do.

And no offense taken, honestly.

 

[Outlander]

Those names will be my legacy. No one realized Van Gogh was a genius until after he died; so too will you only see the beauty of the beebox long after my time on SWRP has passed.

In all seriousness: I wanted something that would be really obvious (box sounded kinda generic) and Lucid vetoed using various SW fauna for the labeling. The float tags should give all the functionality a right aligned box would, but I'll test it out and if they don't, I'll see what we can do.

New members after Star Wars XI: The Search For More Money will know the true genius of the name.

Thanks a Ton for the work you put in Bee!

 

[Undine]

Lucid vetoed using various SW fauna for the labeling.

Lucid, how dare you, don't make me get the happy spoon!

All in all I'm actually excited to explore all the new possibilities for formating, thanks for all the hard work guys.

::D:​