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Bulletin Board Code, also known as BBCode, is a markup language used among forums.
You can use it to make your posts boring fancy.
Text Effects
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Bulletin Board Code, also known as BBCode, is a markup language used among forums. You can use it tomake your postsboringfancy. Text Effects
The syntax for bold text is:
[code][b]Insert text here[/code]For strikethroughs, replace b with s.
For underlining, replace b with u.
For italics, replace b with i.
Example: I like waffles.
If you want custom text, add a = after the first url inside brackets, and the link after the =. Then, put your text in between the brackets.
Example: A cool Topic
Finally, you can also put images inside a url tag, and they will also be clickable.
Images
The syntax is:
[img]Image URL goes here[/img]
Make sure that you are using the image url.
Wrong: imgur.com/zF5O9BS
Right: i.imgur.com/zF5O9BS.png
As you can see, it will end in an extension like .jpg, .png, or .bmp.
Example:
Posting BBCode in Code Tags
Thanks to @DouglasColvin for this :)
First, copy this sentence -><-.
In between those arrows, there is an invisible character, so if you paste that sentence into a new post, you should just see a block.
When you post BBCode in a code block, the forum will still parse it, so we need to use this character to "disguise" the BBCode so that it isn't parsed, but the user can still see it on the post.
Example:
This will show what the Youtube Video section actually is.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iPwTFCL.png[/img]
The 0081 block is what the character looks like in Firefox. As you can see, it must be placed in or touching the opening tag name*.
*If you are posting a code block inside of a code block, you must paste the character into the closing tag, too.
Fluffy There was supposed to be a formatting page when we removed the horrible editor we had, but this is decent enough until we add a new editor. Thanks.
There's also:
http://i66.tinypic.com/25g416s.p
Shiinyu "Horrible editor" I don't understand why you keep calling it a horrible editor when it was better than most people not knowing how to use BBCode. And it wasn't all that bad...
"Horrible editor" I don't understand why you keep calling it a horrible editor when it was better than most people not knowing how to use BBCode. And it wasn't all that bad...