BBcode

BBCODE

“BBCode is short for Bulletin Board Code. It is used as a way for formatting posts made on message boards, blogs and more.“

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So, a lot of people may be familiar with the posting features on a forum.
But for those that are not this may be useful.

I’m just gonna take a minute and line out some of the commonly used (and less commonly used) tags known as BBCode…

All BBCode works with two part tags - a start tag and an end tag both in brackets.

Which would look like this: [start tag] [/end tag]
Notice the ‘forward slash’ ( / ) in the end tag. That is just to let it know that ended the code. Without it the tag would just not work.

Now that the concept has been drawn, I’ll showyou the actual content.

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BOLD

^^^ That was done by doing this…
[b]BOLD[/b]

[b]= start tag,  BOLD = whatever text you want,  [/b]= end tag

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ITALICS

^^^ Likewise is done like this…
[i]ITALICS[/i]

[i]= start tag, ITALICS = whatever text you want, [/i] = end tag

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UNDERLINE

^^^ And again…
[u]UNDERLINE[/u]

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NOTE:
Any combination of BBCodes can be made.

Like the above three…

BBCODE

[b][i][u]BBcode[u][i][b]

Each time you apply a new BBCode you apply it to the outer most edge on both ends…

BBCODE
[u] BBCODE[/u]
[i][u] BBCODE [/u][/i]
[b][i][u]  BBCODE [/u][/i][/b]

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Next we go into the non-text BBCode that will be commonly used.

Quote-tags are some of THE most used tags on any board…

[quote="Your beloved mod"] I quoted me!!! [/quote]

This will generate a block of quoted text. this is used in conversations to refer back to previous posts or to break down a discussion and point out things in bits and pieces.

In the Start-Tag you will notice in parentheses I put ‘Your beloved mod‘…
And when the code functions you will see that it makes it say, “Your beloved mod Says”
This is used when referring to past posts or quoting off-site, you may state the person you are talking to or the source of your information.
Makes it easier for everyone to understand who is talking to who.

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Another big one is the Image-tag…

With the image tag, as you can guess, you can post pictures.

Done like so…
Let’s post an image!

[IMG]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u61/Shiron_Barbaros/argmodding-1.png[/IMG]

That would come out as…

This can be done with any image on the internet (as permitted by the rules.)
Inside the image tags you place the ‘full’ url of the desired image and it will show up.

Posting links to random other sites and news stories occurs a lot.

http:// www. arg. com

While just posting a url will automatically link it, a lot of people wish to add their own text or even a picture to be the click -able link.

Lets start with text…

[url]http:// www. arg. com[/url]

That would now instead of being just a link, it is whatever I want it to say.
ARG!

[URL="http://www.arg.com"]ARG![/URL]

That would now instead of being just a link, it is whatever I want it to say.

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But what about image links?

Well instead of putting in text like “ARG!”
We use the [IMG] tags again.
YEAH! We can stack certain BBCode and it work just fine.

PRESTO!!!

^^^ That was done like this!!!

[URL="http://www.arg.com"][IMG]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u61/Shiron_Barbaros/argmodding-1.png[/IMG][/URL]

You enclose the [IMG] tags inside the [url] tags to make a clickable link on a picture.

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I hope this has been at least a little bit helpful to those who didn’t understand BBCode previously.

If you still don’t understand a portion of this explanation or find something to not work the way it was described let me know and I will help as best I can.

–Sir. Lucian Adonis

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