Posting Style ideas.

[mdreams]

I'm looking for some kind of thread or forum of pre-made posting styles. Decorative and fancy or unique. I'm just looking for a neat way to make my posts more interesting. Is there a thread or forum here that is dedicated to providing users something like that?

[Kami]

The support forum does not have a section or thread for this, no.

The only places I could think of that would have this would be RP resource forums -- there are several that host with ProBoards, and several that host on other providers with sections for ProBoards. However, these are all roleplay related templates so if you are just looking for something for general posts, they would not be appropriate to use (as they generally have slots for character name / info, icons, etc).

Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

[Retread]

mdreams , I'm not aware of any tutorials for dressing up posts with BBCode, but it might help to know that a subset of HTML elements are valid in BBCode if you change the < > angled brackets to [ ] square brackets.

Most notably, the div and span elements can be used with inline styling. The HTML class and ID attributes aren't valid in BBCode, but the style attribute is. For instance, this post is contained within a div with the style attribute which has several declarations. Each declaration begins with a CSS property closed with a colon, followed by a value (or values) closed with a semicolon.

[div style="border:5px outset rgba(128,128,128,50%);border-radius:5px;padding:50px;margin:5px;font:18px Arial;background-image:url(https://storage.proboards.com/6994517/images/rhMOVOSepgLMqCDIEeED.png);"]

There are several other interesting effects you can use within a post to provide visual interest. For instance this:[div style="width:50%;background-color:white;box-shadow:0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);margin:15px;"][img style="width:90%;margin:5% 5% 5% 5%;" src="https://i.imgur.com/VPBlaJC.jpg" alt="5 Whitewater"][div style="text-align:center;padding:10px 20px;"][p style="margin-bottom:5%;"]Whitewater[/p][/div][/div]... wraps an image and caption in such a way that it resembles a Polaroid photo.

Whitewater

If you have some space to experiment, perhaps on a test forum you created, you can work with various css properties and find some things that work for your needs. Many, but not all, of the properties will work with inline styling. ProBoards forums inherently supports only a few font families so your choices are limited there. And some of the styling you might choose for posts might be a bit too heavy-handed for everyday use. imho, subtle touches can be better.

This CSS reference might be of use to you. But remember you won't be using these properties and values within a style sheet, they'll go within the " " quotation marks that follow the style attribute within the BBCode tag.

www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp