BBCode guide

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What is BBCode?

BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can actually use BBCode in your posts on the forum is determined by the administrator. In addition you can disable BBCode on a per post basis via the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML, tags are enclosed in square brackets [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. Depending on the template you are using you may find adding BBCode to your posts is made much easier through a clickable interface above the message area on the posting form. Even with this you may find the following guide useful.

Text Formatting

How to create bold, italic and underlined text

BBCode includes tags to allow you to quickly change the basic style of your text. This is achieved in the following ways:

To make a piece of text bold enclose it in , e.g.

Hello

will become Hello

For underlining use , for example:

Good Morning

becomes Good Morning

To italicise text use , e.g.

This is Great!

would give This is Great!

How to change the text colour or size

To alter the colour or size of your text the following tags can be used. Keep in mind that how the output appears will depend on the viewers browser and system:

Changing the colour of text is achieved by wrapping it in . You can specify either a recognised colour name (eg. red, blue, yellow, etc.) or the hexadecimal triplet alternative, e.g. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:

Hello!

or

Hello!

Both will output Hello!

Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using . This tag is dependent on the template the user has selected but the recommended format is a numerical value representing the text size in percent, starting at 20 (very small) through to 200 (very large) by default. For example:

SMALL

will generally be SMALL

whereas:

HUGE!

will be HUGE!

Can I combine formatting tags?

Yes, of course you can, for example to get someones attention you may write:

LOOK AT ME!

this would output LOOK AT ME!

We don’t recommend you output lots of text that looks like this though! Remember it is up to you, the poster, to ensure tags are closed correctly. For example the following is incorrect:

This is wrong

Quoting and outputting fixed-width text

Quoting text in replies

There are two ways you can quote text, with a reference or without.

When you utilise the Quote function to reply to a post on the board you should notice that the post text is added to the message window enclosed in a

block. This method allows you to quote with a reference to a person or whatever else you choose to put! For example to quote a piece of text Mr. Blobby wrote you would enter:

The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go here

The resulting output will automatically add "Mr. Blobby wrote:" before the actual text. Remember you must include the quotation marks "" around the name you are quoting, they are not optional.

The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise this enclose the text in

tags. When you view the message it will simply show the text within a quotation block.

Outputting code or fixed width data

If you want to output a piece of code or in fact anything that requires a fixed width, e.g. Courier type font you should enclose the text in tags, e.g.

echo "This is some code";

All formatting used within tags is retained when you later view it. PHP syntax highlighting can be enabled using and is recommended when posting PHP code samples as it improves readability.

Generating lists

Creating an Unordered list

BBCode supports two types of lists, unordered and ordered. They are essentially the same as their HTML equivalents. An unordered list outputs each item in your list sequentially one after the other indenting each with a bullet character. To create an unordered list you use

• and define each item within the list using
• . For example to list your favourite colours you could use:
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Yellow
  
  
  This would generate the following list:

  Red

  Blue

  Yellow

  Creating an Ordered list

  The second type of list, an ordered list, gives you control over what is output before each item. To create an ordered list you use

  to create a numbered list or alternatively
  1. for an alphabetical list. As with the unordered list, items are specified using
  [*]. For example:
  
  
  • Go to the shops
  • Buy a new computer
  • Swear at computer when it crashes
  
  
  will generate the following:< >Go to the shopsBuy a new computerSwear at computer when it crashes

  The first possible answer

  The second possible answer

  The third possible answer

  Creating Links

  Linking to another site

  phpBB BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs (Uniform Resource Indicators) better known as URLs.< >The first of these uses the tag, whatever you type after the = sign will cause the contents of that tag to act as a URL. For example to link to phpBB.com you could use:
  
  http://. For example typing www.phpbb.com into your message will automatically lead to www.phpbb.com being output when you view the message.The same thing applies equally to e-mail addresses, you can either specify an address explicitly for example:
  
  no.one@domain.adr
  
  which will output no.one@domain.adr or you can just type no.one@domain.adr into your message and it will be automatically converted when you view.

  Showing images in posts

  Adding an image to a post

  phpBB BBCode incorporates a tag for including images in your posts. Two very important things to remember when using this tag are: many users do not appreciate lots of images being shown in posts and secondly the image you display must already be available on the internet (it cannot exist only on your computer for example, unless you run a webserver!). To display an image you must surround the URL pointing to the image with tags.

  Adding attachments into a post

  Attachments can now be placed in any part of a post by using the new [attachment=][/attachment] BBCode, if the attachments functionality has been enabled by a board administrator and if you are given the appropriate permissions to create attachments. Within the posting screen is a drop-down box (respectively a button) for placing attachments inline.

  Other matters

  Can I add my own tags?

  If you are an administrator on this board and have the proper permissions, you can add further BBCodes through the Custom BBCodes section.

  Source: phpbb

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