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How to format text on your profile

Your profile can act like a résumé. After your avatar, it’s often people’s first impression of you. It can list your accomplishments and give people an idea of what you’re about.

You wouldn’t a format a résumé with just plain text. Some things on a résumé are more important than others. For example, you’d probably put headings like “EDUCATION” and “EXPERIENCE” in bold and/or underlined text.

Likewise, you might want to format text on your profile. Here are some easy ways to do so. Note that this site uses BBCode, not HTML. So don’t paste code from, say, your Facebook or MySpace profile into your Model Mayhem profile editor. It won’t work.

On your Model Mayhem profile, BBCode allows you to format text in five ways: bold, italics, strikethrough, quote, and web links. (We’ll only discuss text here. To embed images on your profile, see here.)

To format text, simply add code directly (no spaces) before and after it. So:

[b]Bold text[/b]

[i]Italicized text[/i]

[s]Strikethrough text[/s]

[quote]Putting text in quote tags results in this.[/quote]

[url=http://URLthatyouwanttolinkto.com]Text that links somewhere else[/url]

http://dropaURLdirectlyontoyourprofilelikethis.com

Yields this:

Note the final, sixth example – you can just drop a URL directly into your profile. Because this doesn’t require BBCode, every member can do this, including Basic members.

Now go jazz up text on your profile!

(Note that only Premium and VIP members can format text on their profiles with BBCode. To upgrade to Premium and VIP status, go here.)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Barnstead/100000966223910 Rog’er Barnstead

    Thanks this was well done and very useful!

  • Ahamed Iqbal

    Thanks for putting this together! Its nice to have this in one place.

  • Dean

    No mention of bigger size or of colour. I take it that size and colour are not supported?

    • MM Edu

      No, BBCode tags for size are color aren’t supported, sorry!

  • Beta

    How about centering something?

  • http://twitter.com/MzFanceeT MzTonyaNicole

    very helpful

  • Rosewood Film

    Ive done exactly what you said for the bold, yet it didnt work it just showed the BBCode. Is there any reason it has done so?

  • Salyagua

    Very useful thank you….

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