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Introduction What is BBCode? Text Formatting How to create bold, italic and underlined text How to change the text colour or size Can I combine formatting tags? Quoting and outputting fixed-width text Quoting text in replies Outputting code or fixed width data Generating lists Creating an Un-ordered list Creating an Ordered list Creating Links Linking to another site Showing images in posts Adding an image to a post Other matters Can I add my own tags? |
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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 braces [ 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. Back to top |
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| 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:
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| How to change the text colour or size To alter the color 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:
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| Can I combine formatting tags? Yes, of course you can; for example to get someones attention you may write: [size=18][color=red][b]LOOK AT ME![/b][/color][/size] this would output LOOK AT ME! We don't recommend you output lots of text that looks like this, though! Remember that it is up to you, the poster, to ensure that tags are closed correctly. For example, the following is incorrect: [b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u] Back to top |
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| Quoting and outputting fixed-width text |
| Quoting text in replies There are two ways you can quote text: with a reference or without.
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| Outputting code or fixed width data If you want to output a piece of code or in fact anything that requires a fixed width with a Courier-type font, you should enclose the text in [code][/code] tags, eg. [code]echo "This is some code";[/code] All formatting used within [code][/code] tags is retained when you later view it. Back to top |
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| Generating lists |
| Creating an Un-ordered list BBCode supports two types of lists, unordered and ordered. They are essentially the same as their HTML equivalents. An unordered list ouputs each item in your list sequentially one after the other indenting each with a bullet character. To create an unordered list you use [list][/list] and define each item within the list using [*]. For example, to list your favorite colours you could use: [list] [*]Red [*]Blue [*]Yellow [/list] This would generate the following list:
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| 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 [list=1][/list] to create a numbered list or alternatively [list=a][/list] for an alphabetical list. As with the unordered list items are specified using [*]. For example: [list=1] [*]Go to the shops [*]Buy a new computer [*]Swear at computer when it crashes [/list] will generate the following:
[list=a] [*]The first possible answer [*]The second possible answer [*]The third possible answer [/list] giving
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| Creating Links |
| Linking to another site phpBB BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs, Uniform Resource Indicators better known as URLs.
[url=http://www.phpbb.com/][img]http://www.phpbb.com/images/phplogo.gif[/url][/img] is not correct which may lead to your post being deleted so take care. Back to top |
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| 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 second, 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!). There is currently no way of storing images locally with phpBB (all these issues are expected to be addressed in the next release of phpBB). To display an image, you must surround the URL pointing to the image with [img][/img] tags. For example: [img]http://www.phpbb.com/images/phplogo.gif[/img] As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a [url][/url] tag if you wish, eg. [url=http://www.phpbb.com/][img]http://www.phpbb.com/images/phplogo.gif[/img][/url] would generate:  Back to top |
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| Other matters |
| Can I add my own tags? No, I am afraid not directly in phpBB 2.0. We are looking at offering customisable BBCode tags for the next major version. Back to top |
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