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I periodically visit the BBCode reference page to double check how various things work, and I've noticed that, while the font tag works, it's not mentioned. Not sure if that was intentional or not, as it would be a bit limited and could potentially lead to visual messines.

I also thought the strikethrough tag wasn't there, since it wasn't mentioned in the contents list, but I did find in there.

Just thought I'd mention it. *shrugs*

I have very deliberately removed mention of the font tag in the help documents, because the way fonts work in browsers tends to cause massive amounts of confusion and I was answering an inordinate number of questions about it every week.

Basically, even after long-winded explanation, many people still felt that the code was "broken" and insisted I needed to do something about it, when it was just working the way that fonts work on the interwebs (and the way it works is confusing, but also not under my control in any way). So I don't officially support it anymore.

I used to not have the column tags in the help document because I was concerned a similar phenomenon would occur. By popular demand, I added it in, but I still think every month about taking it back out because it's another one of those dangerous tags that one can abuse and break and will often work differently between different types of browsers!

Understandable. Considering how much else was included, I kinda figured it might be intentional.

I'm glad it makes sense!