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1A markup language for {{Message Board}}s; slightly simpler than HTML. '''NOT used on the TV Tropes wiki or forums.'''
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3The most common ones, found on nearly all forums:
4::[b]'''bold text'''[/b]\
5[i]''italic text''[/i]\
6[u]underlined text[/u]\
7[img][[http://www.example.com http://the.address.of/an/image/to/display]][/img]\
8[url][[http://www.example.com http://the.address.to/make/a/link/to]][/url]\
9[quote][[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} to be or not to be that is the question]][/quote]
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11Some tags also take a parameter:
12::[url=[=http://the.address.to/make/a/link/to=]]text to be linked[/url]\
13[quote=Hamlet]to be or not to be that is the question[/quote]
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15Also common on many forums:
16::[s]t̶o̶n̶g̶u̶e̶-̶i̶n̶-̶c̶h̶e̶e̶k̶ ̶t̶e̶x̶t[s]\
17[spoiler][[ItWasHisSled Darth Vader is Luke's father!]][/spoiler]\
18[spoiler=text label][[labelnote:text label]]either Darth Vader is Luke's father or else this post is just really long-winded or else has lots of large images or one REALLY large image and will stretch the page if unconcealed by some sort of folder[[/labelnote]][/spoiler]\
19[code]#computer code[/code]
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21Occasionally used in FauxComputerCode, especially on forums whose software strips out anything that looks like it ''might'' be an HTML tag (like, for example, "<blah>"), on forums that don't allow HTML posting.

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