ICcode Help Page

"ICcode" is a way of adding special features (like bold and hyperlinks) to text you contribute to the Informed Consent website. You can use ICcode in any input box that lets you enter more than one line of text: so that is the bodies of weblog and web board posts you write, the main part of a memo, the extended info in the listings and the long descriptions you can add to pictures you upload.

ICcode is specific to Informed Consent, but is intentionally very similar to phpBB's "BBcode" and Snitz Forum's "Forum Code", and all three are indirectly related to HTML.

Paragraphs

To start a new paragraph, just leave a blank line. Other than that, you don't need to worry about where you start new lines since it won't make any difference:

this text will be
on one line

A new paragraph

Smileys

To get a smiley in your text, just include one of the following combinations of punctuation:

:) or :-)	:( or :-(	;) or ;-)	:-p	=-o
:* or :-*	>:o	8-)	:-D	:-$

Links to web pages

If you include a "word" starting with "http://" or "www." it will be interpreted as a hyperlink URL to another web page. For example: www.google.com

You can also make links using something like:

[url=http://www.google.com/]Google Search Engine[/url]

Google Search Engine

Links to profile pages

You can put a link to someone's profile page with @ followed by their IC Name, rather like you can on Twitter. For example:

This example uses the @Admin profile page

Quoting

You can indicate that you're quoting text using quotation marks (") as you would in ordinary text. However, you can also make a block of quoted text really stand out using [quote] and [/quote]

For example:

[quote=Admin]
some text
[/quote]

some reply

If you don't want to give the original poster's IC Nname, just use [quote] rather than [quote=NAME]. If you do give an IC Name, it will be used to make a link to their profile page.

Bold

You can make bold text by surrounding words or phrases in [b] and [/b]. For example, "Google has a [b]huge[/b] database" will produce "Google has a huge database"

Headings

You can make a subheading within your text by starting a paragraph with [heading] and writing the heading as the rest of the paragraph. The heading must not include any other ICcode commands. For example:

The previous paragraph of words in the
text that you've written goes here.

[heading]A subheading

The next paragraph of words in the text
that you've written goes here.

Item lists

You can make an itemised list within your text by starting paragraphs with [item] and writing the item as the rest of the paragraph. For example:

The previous paragraph of words in the
text that you've written goes here.

[item]First item

[item]Second item

The next paragraph of words in the text
that you've written goes here.

Pictures

It's possible to embed thumbnail versions of pictures you've uploaded to IC in your posts, memos etc using ICcode.

To do this, simply put [picture=NNNNN] where NNNNN is the ID number of your picture. You can find this out by looking at the full size version of your picture when you're signed-in to IC: the correct [picture=NNNNN] code appears near the bottom of the the blue info box.

For example, you can see the full size page for Admin's smiley face by clicking on it: when Admin looks at that page, Admin also sees [picture=112046] (since it's one of Admin's own pictures.) If Admin included [picture=112046] in some ICcode text, you would see a thumbnail like the one here.

In your own posts, you can choose the size of the picture by adding large, medium, small, wall, or icon, immediately before the final ], to get a 600, 300, 80, 40 or 20 pixel image. For example, [picture=112046 medium].

Links to Dictionary articles

You can make links using something like:

[about=Bondage]tying people up[/about]

tying people up

Embedding YouTube videos

You can embed YouTube videos in your posts etc by putting [youtube=NNNNNN] where NNNNNN is the YouTube Video ID. You need to look at the URL of the video to work out its Video ID. For example,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNNNNN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=NNNNNN&NR=1

http://youtu.be/NNNNNN

would all have Video ID NNNNNN. The Video ID can contain letters, numbers and dashes.

Future additions

We may add more special commands using [ and ] in the future, so we advise you not to use [ and ] yourself except as part of the commands explained on this page.