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Dispatch → Meta → Reference
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How to Write a Dispatch
To view the NScode used to create this dispatch, click here. All dispatches have a "Raw" link at the very bottom right that allows you to view their raw NScode.
There are many BBcode/NScode tags to be implemented. For example, this paragraph is testing floating an image to the right. Hello, image!
This is indented a little, with the tab code.
Moving on, we have a table. Notice the first row is automatically nifty-fied.
Hello to the first row | Next cell |
Second row | Next cell |
Third row | Next cell |
Fourth row, which goes on at some length about nothing. It also has a line break in it. Here it comes. Ready? Okay!! Here it is!! See? | Next cell |
Hovering over a row highlights it | Not bad, eh? |
A link to the News page looks like normal, because it's internal to the game. But a link to 
an external site gets a little icon to signify that.
Minor bug: links to subdomains like liberal NS are treated as external.
Forum links have their own little icon.
You don't need to use tags if you're simply pasting in a link to somewhere on NS: it gets automatically URL-ified, like this: region=lazarus#rmb ...or this: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=170154
Naturally, we support the common NATION and REGION tags.
The very first region in NationStates was The Pacific.
I am Testlandia. Or Testlandia for short. But you can simply call me Testlandia.
You can use UTF-8 characters natively. See: 𝄞
Now in testing: Spoilers! These come in two forms:
This one has a few other tags inside the spoiler to make it extra fancy: the BOX and ALIGN tags, as well as having a title set with SPOILER=title. But you can't embed a spoiler within another spoiler!
Lists!
You can have nested and independent lists. So this works:
First item
Second item
sub-list item 1
sub-list item 2
Third item
... and so does this:
List style here is 'i'
You can also have '1' for numbers
And 'a' for latin
Plus 'A' or 'I' for as above, only capitalized
• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five
If you screw up a list, the formatting will break your dispatch, but not the whole page. For example:
Here is a list that
I should have closed it with a /list tag
But I forgot.
Now everything below is in the list! Oh oh!
Luckily, though, it doesn't screw up the entire page.
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