Compose tips

• Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

• Allowed HTML tags: <a> <img> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>

  This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

  For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

  Tag Description	You Type	You Get
  Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	<a href="http://forums.altnews.com.au">forums.altnews.com.au</a>	forums.altnews.com.au
  No help provided for tag img.
  Emphasized	<em>Emphasized</em>	Emphasized
  Strong	<strong>Strong</strong>	Strong
  Cited	<cite>Cited</cite>	Cited
  Coded text used to show programming source code	<code>Coded</code>	Coded
  Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>	First item Second item
  Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>	First item Second item
  Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.	<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>	First term First definition Second term Second definition

  Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

  If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

  Character Description	You Type	You Get
  Ampersand	&	&
  Greater than	>	>
  Less than	&lt;	<
  Quotation mark	&quot;	"

• Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.
• Acidfree inline tags
It is possible to change the way the [acidfree:nnn] tags look by adding a few name/value pairs. Note that any value that has spaces in it must be quoted either with single quotes ' or with double quotes ". Currently, the choices are:
• title: use this string as the caption (Note that you can have the node title be the default caption by modifying the setting in admin/settings/acidfree)
• align: {left,right}
• size: {M, WxH} where M=max dimension and WxH=WidthxHeight
• link: 'none', 'album', or relative or absolute url e.g. http://www.google.com or node/59. If set to none, thumbnail will not be a link. If set to album, link will point to album of selected item.
• popup: any value. If set, it will cause the link to be a popup link
• style: CSS style information for the image
• class: additional class for the image
Examples
• [acidfree:1234 size=300 align=right] - right aligned thumbnail of node 1234 with max dimension of 300 pixels
• [acidfree:4321] - left aligned thumbnail of node 4321 (default thumbnail size)
• [acidfree:3241 align=left size=320x240] - right aligned thumbnail of node 3241 with size = 320x240
• [acidfree:3241 title='This is a different title' size=320 popup=true link="http://mysite.dom/"] - left aligned thumbnail of node 3241 with a title set, size = 320x240, link pointing to mysite.dom and target=blank_ set in the anchor
• [acidfree:3241 link=none class='my-image your-image' style="border: 2 px grey inset;"] - left aligned thumbnail of 3241, default size, class set and new style info
• Every email address in the input text will be replaced with its ascii equivalent.

• To add a lightbox to your images, add rel="lightbox" attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. For example:

  <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox">image #1</a>

  <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[][my caption]">image #1</a>

  To show a caption either use the title attribute or put in the second set of square brackets of the rel attribute.

  If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, then you will need to include a group name between square brackets in the rel attribute. For example:

  <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a>
<a href="image-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip][caption 2]">image #2</a>
<a href="image-3.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip][caption 3]">image #3</a>


  There are no limits to the number of image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each set.

  If you wish to turn the caption into a link, format your caption in the following way:

  <a href="image-1.jpg" rel='lightbox[][<a href="http://www.yourlink.com">View Image Details</a>]' >image #1</a>

• To add a lightbox slideshow to your images, add rel="lightshow[slideshowname][slide caption]" attribute to any link tag to activate the slideshow. For example:

  <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightshow[show1]">image #1</a>
<a href="image-2.jpg" rel="lightshow[show1]">image #2</a>
<a href="image-3.jpg" rel="lightshow[show1]">image #3</a>


  The title attribute in the link tag is optional. The addition of this attribute enables the display of a caption with the image displayed in the lightbox.

  There are no limits to the number of slideshow image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each slideshow.

  If you wish to turn the caption into a link, format your caption in the following way:

  <a href="image-1.jpg" rel='lightshow[show1][<a href="http://www.yourlink.com">View Image Details</a>]'>image #1</a>

• It's possible to show webpage content in the lightbox, using iframes. In this case the "rel" attribute should be set to "lightframe". Again it's possible to group the content, (e.g. lightframe[search][caption]) but in addition to that, it's possible to control some of the iframe properties. It's possible to set the "width", "height" and "scrolling" properties of the iframe. The properties are separated from the group name by a |, for example lightframe[search|width:100px;][caption]. If no grouping is being used, then the | is still used and the format would be lightframe[|width:100px;]. The properties should all be of the format "property: value;" - note the closing semi-colon. If no iframe properties are set, then the default width and height of 400px will be used. See below for more detailed examples.

  Basic example:
  <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="lightframe">Search google</a>

  Grouped example:
  <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="lightframe[search][caption]">Search google</a>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" rel="lightframe[search]">Search yahoo</a>

  Controlling iframe property example:
  <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="lightframe[|width:400px; height:300px; scrolling: auto;][caption]">Search google</a>

  Controlling iframe property when grouped example:
  <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="lightframe[search|width:400px; height:300px; scrolling: auto;]">Search google</a>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" rel="lightframe[search|width:400px; height:300px;]">Search yahoo</a>

• It's possible to show video content in the lightbox. In this case the "rel" attribute should be set to lightvideo. It's possible to group videos and to control the size of the lightbox by setting the "width" and "height" properties. The properties can be configured like lightvideo[group|width:300px; height: 200px;][caption]. The properties should all be of the format "property: value;" - note the closing semi-colon. If no properties are set, then the default width and height of 400px will be used. See below for more detailed examples.

  Basic example:
  <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1811233136844420765" rel="lightvideo">Google video example - default size</a>

  Controlling lightbox size example:
  <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1811233136844420765" rel="lightvideo[group|width:400px; height:300px;][caption]">Google video example - custom size</a>

  Supported video formats include asx, wmv, mov and swf. A number of online video providers are also supported, including YouTube and Google Video. For a full list of the current supported video providers please see the documentation on drupal.org.

• Video Filter

  You may insert videos from popular video sites by using a simple tag [video:URL].

  Examples:

  • Single video:
    [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId]
  • Random video out of multiple:
    [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId1,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId2]
  • Override default autoplay setting: [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId autoplay:1]
  • Override default width and height:
    [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId width:X height:Y]
  • Align the video:
    [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId align:right]

  Supported sites: YouTube, Google Video, Tangle, DailyMotion, Eyespot, Revver, Vimeo, Flickr Slideshows, Flickr Video, Game Videos, Meta Cafe, Game Trailers, College Humor, MySpace, Capped, Blip.tv, Slideshare, Picasa Slideshows.

  Special instructions:

  Some codecs need special input. You'll find those instructions here.
  • Slideshare:
    You need to construct your own URL, using the "Wordpress Embed" code from Slideshare, extract the "id" and "doc" parts, and form the URL like this: slideshare.net/?id=1759622&doc=usingdrupal-090723103440-phpapp01.
  • Picasa Slideshows:
    You must use the URL of the RSS feed for the Picasa album:
    1. View the album in Picasa (you should see thumbnails, not a slideshow).
    2. Find the "RSS" link and click it.
    3. Copy the resulting URL from the browser address bar. Example:
       [video: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/USER_NAME/albumid/5568104935784209834?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US]