TGML stands for Tecumseh Group Markup Language. TGML is proprietary to these forums and allows you to format your posts, enabling bolding, italicizing, and so on, as well as typing in color and changing your text alignment (center, right alignment).

You have the option to process TGML in your posts, allowing them access to bold, italic, text colors, etc., or you can turn TGML off to ignore TGML markup commands and output your post as you typed it.

Below are the available tags, and sample usage...

Inline formatting
[b]bold[/b] bold
[i]italic[/i] italic
[bi]bold italic[/bi] bold italic
[u]underline[/u] underline
[s]strikethrough[/s] strikethrough
[sub]sub[/sub]script subscript
[sup]super[/sup]script superscript
[small]small[/small] text small text
[tt]MonoSpaced Text[/tt] MonoSpaced Text
[kbd]Key[/kbd] name Key name
[!]Attention![/!]
[attn]Attention![/attn]		 Attention!
Attention!
sample [box]boxed[/box] text sample boxed text
Block formatting
[pre]pre    for

    mat    ted[/pre]		 
pre    for

    mat    ted
[left]left aligned
text[/left]
left aligned
text
[center]centered
text[/center]
centered
text
[right]right aligned
text[/right]
right aligned
text
sample [floatl]left floated[/floatl] text sample
left floated
text
sample [right]right floated[/right] text sample
right floated
text
sample [bbox]boxed[/bbox] text sample
boxed
text
sample [indent]indented[indent] and more indented[/indent][/indent] text sample
indented
and more indented
text
[quote]A stitch in time saves nine...[/quote]

Quote:

A stitch in time saves nine...
[quote Dave]I hate computers![/quote]

Quote (Dave)

I hate computers!
[code]
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Page content
  </body>
</html>
[/code]

CODE

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Page content
  </body>
</html>
[code HTML]
[aqua]<html>[/aqua]
  [aqua]<head>[/aqua]
    [teal]<title>[/teal]Page[teal]</title>[/teal]
  [aqua]</head>[/aqua]
  [navy]<body>[/navy]
    Page content
  [navy]</body>[/navy]
[aqua]</html>[/aqua]
[/code]

CODE --> HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Page content
  </body>
</html>
Links will not automatically become clickable inside [code] tags, but you can use other TGML.
[spoiler]This is a spoiler.[/spoiler]

Spoiler:

This is a spoiler.
[spoiler Give up?]This is a spoiler.[/spoiler]

Spoiler (Give up?)

This is a spoiler.
To read the contents of the spoiler, move the mouse pointer move the spoiler box.
List formatting
[ul]
  [li]item 1[/li]
  [li]item 2[/li]
[/ul]
  • item 1
  • item 2
[ul square]
  [li]item A[/li]
  [ul circle]
    [li]item i[/li]
    [li]item ii[/li]
  [/ul]
  [li]item B[/li]
  [li]item C[/li]
[/ul]
  • item A
    • item i
    • item ii
  • item B
  • item C
You can use [ul disc], [ul circle], or [ul square] to change the bullet style.
[ol]
  [li]item 1[/li]
  [li]item 2[/li]
[/ol]
  1. item 1
  2. item 2
[ol A]
  [li]item A[/li]
  [ol i]
    [li]item i[/li]
    [li]item ii[/li]
  [/ol]
  [li]item B[/li]
  [li]item C[/li]
[/ol]
  1. item A
    1. item i
    2. item ii
  2. item B
  3. item C
You can use [ol A], [ol a], [ol I], [ol i], or [ol 1] to change the numbering.
Coloring
[color #ff0000]red text[/color]
[color green]green text[/color]
[color red yellow]red highlighted text[/color] 		red text
green text
red highlighted text
Any "#" prefixed 3 or 6 digit RGB hex code or color name is permissible.
[blue]blue text[/blue]
[purple]purple text[/purple]		 blue text
purple text
Allowable colors using this shortcut are black, white, aqua, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, and yellow.
[highlight]higlighted text[/highlight] higlighted text
[highlight #ff99ff]highlighted text[/highlight] highlighted text
sample [red][box]boxed[/box][/red] text sample boxed text
sample [green][bbox]box[/bbox][/green] text sample
boxed
 text
Linking
https://google.com/ https://google.com/
[link https://google.com/]Google[/link] Google
Including objects
[img https://tipmaster.com/images/frog.gif]
Images larger than 400 pixels wide can cause your thread's page to distort. Please try to keep images posted under this size.
[youtube s8GHgm0nYpw]
:-) and the world will [smile] back to you smile and the world will smile back to you
Emoticons are not recognized inside [code] tags. See TGML Emoticon Reference for more.
Special elements
[tab]inserts four
non-breaking spaces		     inserts four
non-breaking spaces
6 [&divide;] 0 = [&infin;] 6 ÷ 0 = ∞
TGML supports the use of HTML character entities. Put the character entity in square brackets: [&pi;]. See TGML Character Entity Reference for more.
[&#91;]b]bold text[&#91;]/b] [b]bold text[/b]
[ignore][b]bold text[/b][/ignore] [b]bold text[/b]
You can use the [ignore] tag to let TGML know you don't want to mark up a section of your post.
Special Programmer's Note:
A small minority of members, posting certain types of programming code, experience conflicts with TGML. If you are posting code, please check your output to be sure it outputs correctly. (Especially check the formatting around URLS and array subscripts). If your code does not look right, try surrounding the problem portion with the [ignore]..[/ignore] tags to ignore TGML, or use the checkbox to disallow TGML from your post altogether.
Final words
You can also combine the TGML tags:
[color purple][b][i][u]Bold Italic Purple Underlined Text[/u][/i][/b][/color]		 You can also combine the TGML tags:
Bold Italic Purple Underlined Text
NOTE: the closing tags must be in reverse sequence of the opening tags
[b][u]This Works[/u][/b]
[b][u]This Won't[/b][/u]		 NOTE: the closing tags must be in reverse sequence of the opening tags
This Works
This Won't

Thanks to everyone who helped test the TGML processor, with special thanks to:

Tek-Tips Round Table Members
2ffat, Alt255, amriddle01, bcastner, BillyRayPreachersSon, BJCooperIT, CajunCenturion, carrr, chiph, ChrisRChamberlain, craigsboyd, dilettante, feherke, GlenJohnson, gmmastros, golom, icrf, johnwm, jrbarnett, jvogel, linney, manarth, MarkSweetland, MasterRacker, mgagnon, MichaelRed, MiggyD, MikeLacey, NickBulka, onpnt, oharab, PaulBricker, PHV, Salem, SamBones, SantaMufasa, SkipVought, sleipnir214, smah, Steve101, strongm, Tarwn, theEclipse, TonyJollans, Wullie, and Zathras.
Eng-Tips Round Table Members
Austim, busbar, butelja, CoryPad, electricpete, Focht3, GregLocock, JAE, JMW, malone, prex, Rich2001, SBaugh, swertel, and vpl.

Pulling this off would have been impossible
without your help.