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I've seen some people make their words in italics and stuff, and put hyperlinks and fancy stuff in their words. I'm just wondering, how do you do it? Is it something like (A certain scripting thing I know) [i]blah blah[i]/ (I think that was it) Or maybe <url>blah<url>/

Never mind about this. I figured it out. I looked at the rules. I saw that to make it bold or italic you do a < then i or b then > then the words then < then / then i or b then >. I'm just testing but does this work? <a "http://dinknetwork.com"</a> what about this? <a href="http://dinknetwork.com"</a> This?
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HTML in a nutshell:

<tag parameters="values">text that is affected by tag</tag>