I had some users who at first didn't know how to post on a forum so I decided to write this article
Creating a New Discussion
0. Be sure you have read
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/1295/
1. Log in (You can see if you are logged on the top right of any page in this website)
2. Go to the forum you want to create your new topic (eg
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/ )
3. Scroll until you reach the bottom of the page
4. Click on [
Post a new topic] and you will be able to create the new topic
Replying to an existing Discussion
1. Log in
2. Go to the forum in which you have the discussion going on
3. Click on the topic title
4. Scroll until you reach the bottom of the page
5. Click on the button
Post a new reply
Formatting a post
When you reply on the right of the box in which you can type your message you will see something like this:
Format:
#
"
B I
U S
TT 亖
X
2 X
2
When you start a new topic that would be below the edit box
By clicking those buttons you will have some formatting tags.
#
Generates [
code][
/code] tags:
1 2
|
//some code
cout << "This is an example";
| |
(read also
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/1624/ )
"
generates [
quote][
/quote]
B
I
U
and
TT
generate tags with the same letters as in the button for
Bold Italic Underlined Strikethrough and
Teletype text
The button similar to
亖
is used for having
centered text
X2
and
X2
are used for
subscripted and
superscripted text