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How to properly post a tab in your comments

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

I just wanna make a formal announcement to anyone who posts comments on the main site and likes to post tabs (which is a lot of people).

To make the tab format correctly, you have to surround the tab with <pre></pre> tags. These are HTML tags that make the text pre-formatted so that each character takes up the same amount of space. The final product looks like this:

<pre>
e--0---0---0---0---0----
B----2---2---2---2---2--
G-----------------------
D-----------------------
A-----------------------
E-----------------------
</pre>

Submitted on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 02:52

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

Irihi

Joined: Jul 28 2008

I just joined now, and.. the formating makes the tabs all close and tight so i can barely figure out how to play anything.
here is a screen shot of formated and not formated so you can see things from my point of view.

Submitted on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 14:44

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Different browsers output things in different ways, but I can tell you for sure that the way you're browser is outputting is not correct. You're probably running a really old version of FireFox, because it's simply not respecting some of the code I use that is commonplace nowadays. The only way you can fix that is to upgrade your browser.

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DANG

Submitted on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 18:20

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

Joined: Dec 31 1969

I'm using the latest version of Firefox and tabs still aren't formatted correctly. They used to be, but now it's all misaligned. How strange.

Submitted on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 22:05

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

I wrap my tabs with '<pre></pre>' html tags just like every other guitar tab site..... does it happen when you look at tabs from ultimate-guitar.com?

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DANG

Submitted on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 23:08

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

Mokbie

Woah?

Location: The Netherlands

Joined: Jul 30 2008

I use the newest version of firefox, and it works fine for me. Anyway, thanks for the code and notice.

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Submitted on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 08:39

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

ZystraL

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Joined: Aug 16 2008

Doesn't work for me. Ultimate-guitar actually have Courier (the font you're using) as their default font when submitting.You need to let us change the fonts.

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Submitted on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 07:05

Re: How to properly post a tab in your comments

LTRobson

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Location: England

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ZystraL said

Doesn't work for me. Ultimate-guitar actually have Courier (the font you're using) as their default font when submitting.You need to let us change the fonts.

Sounds right, I remember submitting a few things to other sites that asked for Courier or possibly Courier New? font because it was Monospaced (all characters are the same width).

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