Headings
Subheadings
And Subsubheadings
Use hashes to create headings; # for the largest, ## for the second and ### for the smallest. Leave a space between the hash tag and the text for it to render properly. For example, the raw text for the above is
# Headings
## Subheadings
### And Subsubheadings
Horizontal Lines
To make a horizontal line like above, type in four dashes in a row: ----
Bold and Italic
To bold use two stars before and after the text. To italic use an underscore before and after the text. To do both use three stars before and after the text. There are also buttons you can use at the bottom of the post function; just highlight the text and click the "B" or the "I".
For example
**bold**
_italic_
***bold and italic***
renders as
bold
italic
bold and italic
Color Text
yellow
red
green
purple
To get colored text, type in [color=yourcolorchoice]your text here[/color ]
Ex. For red text I'd type [color=red ]blah blah[/color]
to get blah blah
Underlining
underlined text
type in [u]your text here[u]