To the left [center]Dead center[/center] [right]To the right[/right]
[left]To the left[/left] <Clearly doesn't work
Dead center
To the right
I was trying to use the left align in a post I was going to make in an RP, now I'm frustrated. It's something I can get over, I'm just pointing this inconvenience out to you. I'm pretty sure your indent code doesn't work either.
This is the post that I was posting in. (Cities Tab)
RPG Related Information
[left]um[/left]
Red - Brian Orchid - Ash DeepSkyBlue - Jag Lime - Bobo/Unknown Woman Khaki - NPC's
Jag
11:15am - Vilmar
Knife / Tent / 2 Torches / Paper and Quill / 34 Gold / Rope Some clothes
"Yeah, you're right, let's get out of here. My plan so far is to head west into the forest. He's going to be coming from the north, since that's the only way to get to Melderis." He said as he started heading west, motioning for Ash to follow him. He didn't really have a plan, but he did have an idea of where to go. It was obvious he wanted to be far away any drama. 'I'll just think of a place to settle down, when we get the chance to think.' He thought as they edged the border of the forest.
He took a look back at the village that sat in the distance. He didn't really have anything here to hold him back or make him miss the place, but he did still feel like he was leaving home. Maybe it was just cause he had been there for a few years. He almost wished that he didn't have to leave such a peaceful place. Jag thought Vilmar sat in a perfect geological spot. It was between plains, water, forest, hills, and some mountain peaks. 'Oh well. I can get to see the rest of this beautiful world.' He thought.
He looked over at Ash, she was so beautiful. She almost seemed different as they embarked on their journey. He felt almost as if they weren't strangers anymore. Was it cause she was acting funny? She so calmly embarked on this journey it just surprises him, let alone that she left an entire family behind. He understood why though, being in an arranged marriage would be horrendous. Being with someone who you didn't even like or love sounded ridiculous. He broke thought, then looked at the forest, then back at Ash.
"It's gonna take us almost a week to get through this forest, I should have enough supplies to last us."
He looked at the forest after looking at Ash. It was green and luscious. You could hear insects and birds making the forest come even more alive. A warm breeze brushed on Jag's skin, evaporating a little bit of sweat from his brow. He took another look at Ash.
"Well, here we go." He said as he stepped into the border of the forest, disappearing in the brush after a few steps more.
I think you're over complicating things and confusing BB code with the alignment system off a word processor (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, etc.)
BB Code is designed to work like webcoding, but it's a simpler format that doesn't allow <html> tags that could potentially break the page and it's structure/security. For instance, this would be the code that would be used to center a paragraph in HTML.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <p><div align="center"> This is some text! </div></p> </body> </html>
Depending on what the surrounding code is like there may need to be some more lines of code added. Is it the center of a text box? A window? Or a Column? Is there text padding? BB code was created to take some of that heartache out and simplify the code generator by giving it key references to look for. So every time you add [B][/B] it will realise, "Ah, this text needs to be bold" and add that effect.
By industry standard the text will always be left align, because <html> standards state that text will be left aligned, and adding center and right alignments will move the text to the corresponding alignments. So there is no need for ever coding a left align BB code as it is already there by default.
If you want some of your text to be left align simply end the alignment and restart it elsewhere.
Ah, I understand what you're talking about and unfortunately that's also a coding issue. The coding works by looking at the beginning [start] tags and then looking at the next tag to see the [/end] tag.
Eg: Test [b][i][u]Test[/u][/i][/b]
Easiest way to imagine it is like maths. First you look at items within the brackets, then the multiplication/division, then the addition/subtraction. 10+4x(9-7)=18 Doing it out of order and let's say from left to right and ignoring the brackets could end up with 119, which is a wrong answer except with coding it ends up with formatting, unrecognisable errors.
So let's say you have: [left][right]text[/left][/right] Is that text meant to be left aligned or right? or because it's both should it be centered? Maybe it should spread from left to right. The program just simply doesn't know because it's only told to follow a simple command that has resulted in two or more answers.
So in essence what you are trying to do is not center a text part, but trying to center a formatting element which has no formatting properties to begin with as it is there to serve the text, much like Bold, Itallics or Underlines. Treat everything within a hider as an entire entity or a grouped selection of text. When you tell the hider to center and the interior text to left align you are actually saying, "I want you to do this, but I also want you to do that. Now I know you can only do one thing but I want you to do both at once."
