Just to add to and slightly refine this excellent piece of information...

The NEWS quotes can be reserved for important breaking news in any thread, not just ATSNN. However, even older news articles often find relevance as a reference in posts about breaking news... in that case, it might be best to use the EX quote tag.

So, when in doubt.... the [ex] --> [/ex] tags are always your first choice when including any external content in one of your posts. If it's breaking news that is current within a few days of your post, then the NEWS tags should be used.

Ah thank you, I was wondering how some people got the boxes saying "external news" and such.

You know? I've been wondering how they did that! Thanks Benevolent Heretic for showing me the way.

EDIT: And thanks UK Wizard for much needed info.

[edit on 28/3/06 by Intelearthling]

Do we have to type in the code? I'm not seeing an idiot button, for people like me.

Originally posted by desert rat
Do we have to type in the code? I'm not seeing an idiot button, for people like me.

Just testing.

Originally posted by desert rat
Do we have to type in the code? I'm not seeing an idiot button, for people like me.

Well in UK's post above, he has displayed the buttons for the [ex] [/ex] & [quote] [/quote] code. If you choose not to use the buttons then it would be simple:

[ex]

Text Goes here

[/ex]

Would look like:

Text Goes Here

I have not seen a button for the [news] [/news] code, so you may be required to type the code. Maybe a staff member could clarify this for us.

Originally posted by chissler
I have not seen a button for the [news] [/news] code, so you may be required to type the code. Maybe a staff member could clarify this for us.

No button for news to my knowledge as its for ATSNN rather than the other boards

whats this one for

not sure

(shall find out)

the code tag is used to preserve formatting in tabular lists and tables

this is using ex tags

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and it looks crap

this is using the code tag

ATS MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS

Rank number note
Member 82302 total unique memberships issued
Councilor 6
Moderator 30
Super moderator 15
Admin 4 WOS is am admin , not a director of the LLC
“amigo`s” [ partner] 3 the 3 directors of the ATS lcc

whoo hoo - it looks great

basically it allows " fixed spacing " and other stuff - such as the " tab " and indent commands from word to work correctly

there you have it

thank you ignorant_ape, that is cool thanks for the info

testing my quotes

Originally posted by JBurns
Ah thank you, I was wondering how some people got the boxes saying "external news" and such.

Quick Trick: Anytime you see something in a post and you want to know the code for it, just hit the quote button on that post. Use your browser's back button when you've seen it if you don't plan on posting a comment.

How do you do the WHITE headline code? Where the quoted part BACKGROUND is white?

{code} is not it, the font is funny heh
[news] is not it
[ex] not it
[headline] not it i think
{quote} no it

anyone?

Originally posted by Rren

Originally posted by JBurns
Ah thank you, I was wondering how some people got the boxes saying "external news" and such.

Quick Trick: Anytime you see something in a post and you want to know the code for it, just hit the quote button on that post. Use your browser's back button when you've seen it if you don't plan on posting a comment.

Hey thanks I will use this to answer my previous post thanks!
Please post the answer if you got one though...

Yes the white background I was looking for is done by {exnews}. Don't ask me how they got that, it isn't documented anywhere. I suppose its just combination of the [ex] and the [news] references. It looks like this:

Misc. HEADLINE HERE. Misc. HEADLINE HERE. Misc. HEADLINE HERE.

you can use [ im ] and [ /im ] for pictures, which also gives the source. [ img] and [/img ] work for ATS and Photobucket etc. [ats ] tags can be used for ATS uploaded images.

Thats cleared up what this is for, I didn't know. Fairly rare too.