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Nairaland is Nigeria’s most popular forum. It is the ideal place to meet Nigerians, home & abroad. Provided you know how to use Nairaland, it would help pull a lot of traffic to your web/blog sites and a platform to advertise goods and services targeted at Nigerians.

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DO NOT MIND THE NUMBERING.

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1. BOLD
Makes selected text and numbers bold

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2. ITALICS
Makes selected text and numbers italic

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3. STRIKE THROUGH

Place a rule over a written text

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4. ALIGN LEFT

Aligns texts to the left

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5. ALIGN RIGHT

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6. CENTER ALIGN

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[center]Aligns texts to the center[/center]

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7. HORIZONTAL RULE

Draws an horizontal line across the document.

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8. FONT SIZE

[size"equals sign"20pt]Increases[/size] or [size"equals sign"6pt]decreases[/size] the font .

To use this tool

1. Highlight the text whose size you want to increase or decrease.

You will be see a square bracket around the highlighted text, eg

[Size"equals sign"8pt] Sample[/Size]

2. Specify desired text Size.

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9. FONT FACE

[font"equals sign"Lucida Sans Unicode]This is used to change the text appearance .[/font]

To use this tool

1. Highlight/select the text whose appearance you want to change,

You will be see a square bracket around the highlighted text, eg
[Font "equals sign" Andalus] Sample[/Font]

2. Specify desired font type – in front of the “=” (equals) sign.

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10. IMAGE
This is used to display an image within a post, see Example above.

How display/insert an image

1. Search for the image you want to display online, or upload the image of your choice to an online location -your blog, right click on the image and click Copy image URL(for google Chrome browser, for Firefox, it is Copy image Location) . See image below

image url

Note: You do not have control over the image size in Nairaland editor, you must ensure that the image size from source, is your desired size.

2. Paste the image URL where you want it to appear in your post.

3. Highlight/select the image Url

4. Click on the image tool. A square bracket will appear around the image

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11. HYPERLINK

This is used to display a customized link See Example.

How to display a custom Hyperlink text.

1. Highlight the text you want to use as link.

2. Click on the hyperlink tool.

A square bracket will appear around the highlighted text. See sample below

[-url-]FAN PAGE[/url]

3. place an = (equals sign) in the first square bracket, that is [url=]

4. Paste the link URL after the equals sign(=), Note: Do not put a quote(“) around the link. now you should have something like [url"equals sign" http://facebook.com/appswheel]FAN PAGE[/url].

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12. SUBSCRIPT/SUPERSCRIPT

Subscript: type very small letter just below a text.

Superscript: type very small letter just above a text.


To use this tool

1. Highlight the text you want to make a subscript/superscript.

2. Click on superscript/subscript tool.

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13. CODE

Designates a fragment of computer code. Makes text appear like preformated text. See sample below:

 "This is a preformatted text"

To use this tool.

1. Highlight the text you’ll to appear as code

2. Click on the Code tool.

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14. QUOTE

This tool performs two primary functions:

1. Lay emphasize on a block of text within a document.
2. its Popular use on nairaland is for responding to an earlier post/comment.
See example below

How to quote in Nairaland

In the example above, A nairaland user miracle4 responded to a comment made by another user Appswheel. See Appswheel comment circled in red, and miracle4 response below it.

To use this tool.

1. Highlight the text you’ll to appear as a quote.

2. Click on the quote tool.

A square bracket will appear around the highlighted text. S

3. Type your response before or after the quote tags.

Alternatively.

1. Click on (quote), directly below the comment you want to respond to.

2. Type your response

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15. Smiley

A smiley is a sequence of typed characters that creates a rough picture of something, such as a facial expression.

To use this tool.

1. Place your cursor where you want a smiley to appear in your document

2. Click on your desired smiley.

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16. FONT COLOR

Formats the selected text with the color you click

To change font/text color.

1. Highlight/select the text
2. choose desired color from change color dropdown.

The description provided here is an abridge version of what is available where this post is stolen from, i advise you to reads from the SOURCE

Is there any thing missing? If you have more information on how to use nairaland editor, kindly provide the information as a comment below. If you have any questions on how to use nairaland, leave it as a comment to this post.

THOSE WHO READ THIS POST ALSO READ: HOW TO MAKE A POST IN NAIRALAND

I dont care *just testing*


Thanks so much for this! I don fall mumu tire with the editor

You are a good teacher

Nice one op!
A lecture on Html

Please when is the next lecture ?

Nice one.

emmyvet: Nice one op!
A lecture on Html

Please when is the next lecture ?

Bro try and install anti spam mod on your forum.

Nice one, thanks

emmyw: Bro try and install anti spam mod on your forum.

Thanks.
I have used the inbuilt smf verification question, yet the still spamming the forum.
please do you know any good anti spam mod can install?

Good oneGood oneGood one

emmyvet:
Thanks.
I have used the inbuilt smf verification question, yet the still spamming the forum.
please do you know any good anti spam mod can install?

Try this mod http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=3685;id=219450

emmyw: Try this mod http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=3685;id=219450

Thanks I will try it.

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Y can't this make frontpage?? Cos Ebola news already filled up the page!!!

emmyvet:
Thanks I will try it.

Ok,you are welcome

Nice

Good one.

bonaventure73: u don from Facebook come here?

who art thou?

oprezy:

who art thou?

my signature.

Background colour

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Nice tutorials for newbies.

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As someone who is trying to master the nooks and cranny of NL, I found this really helpful. Thanks for taking your time to write this.

Op, I do really found this helpful. But one more thing, how do I change the font color of my signature text. for instance, I want the text blue, how do I do that?

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Hmm.
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