| ~*~Introduction~*~ | What is BBCode?
BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. 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. Our forums do not allow the use of HTML within posts, so you may find the following guide useful.
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| ~*~Text Formatting~*~ | How To Create Bold, Italic, Underlined & Strikethrough 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 [b][/b], eg.
[b]Hello[/b]
will become Hello - For underlining use [u][/u], for example:
[u]Good Morning[/u]
becomes Good Morning - To italicise text use [i][/i], eg.
This is [i]Great![/i]
would give This is Great! - To strike text use [s][/s], eg.
This is [s]Great[/s] Awful!
would give This is Great Awful!
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How To Change The Text Color 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: - Changing the colour of text is achieved by wrapping it in [color=][/color]. You can specify either a recognised colour name (eg. red, blue, yellow, etc.) or the hexadecimal triplet alternative, eg. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:
[color=red]Hello![/color]
or
[color=#FF0000]Hello![/color]
will both output Hello! - Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using [size=][/size]. This tag is dependent on the template you are using but the recommended format is a numerical value representing the text size in pixels, starting at 1 (so tiny you will not see it) through to 29 (very large). For example:
[size=9]SMALL[/size]
will generally be SMALL
whereas:
[size=24]HUGE![/size]
will be HUGE!
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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!
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| ~*~Quoting & 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 [quote=""][/quote] 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:
[quote author=Mr. Blobby]The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go here[/quote]
The resulting output will automatically add: "Quote from: Mr. Blobby" before the actual text. - The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise this enclose the text in [quote][/quote] tags. When you view the message it will simply show: Quote: before the text itself.
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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.
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| ~*~Generating Lists~*~ | Creating An Un-Ordered List
On our forums, BBCode only supports unordered lists. 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 [*] or [li][/li]. For example, to list your favorite colours you could use:
[list]
[*]Red
[*]Blue
[*]Yellow
[/list]
or
[list]
[li]Red[/li]
[li]Blue[/li]
[li]Yellow[/li]
[/list]
Both would generate the following list:
There are many different ways to display the bullets within lists.
[list]
[o]circle
[O]circle
[0]circle
[*]disc
[@]disc
[+]square
[x]square
[#]square
[/list]
Will generate the following list:
- circle
- circle
- circle
- disc
- disc
- square
- square
- square
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| ~*~Creating Links~*~ | Linking To Another Site:
BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs, Uniform Resource Indicators better known as URLs.- The first of these uses the [url=][/url] tag; whatever you type after the = sign will cause the contents of that tag to act as a URL. For example, to link to a-mommys-world.com you could use:
[url=http://www.a-mommys-world.com/]Visit A Mommy's World![/url]
This would generate the following link, Visit A Mommy's World! You will notice the link opens in a new window so the user can continue browsing the forums if they wish. - If you want the URL itself displayed as the link you can do this by simply using:
[url]http://www.a-mommys-world.com/[/url]
This would generate the following link: http://www.a-mommys-world.com/ - Additionally our forums feature something called Magic Linkswhich will turn any syntatically correct URL into a link without you needing to specify any tags or even the leading http://. For example typing www.a-mommys-world.com into your message will automatically lead to www.a-mommys-world.com being output when you view the message.
- The same thing applies equally to email addresses; you can either specify an address explicitly, like:
[email]no.one@domain.adr[/email]
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.
As with all the BBCode tags you can wrap URLs around any of the other tags such as [img][/img] (see next entry), [b][/b], etc.
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| ~*~Showing Images In Posts~*~ | Adding An Image To A Post:
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!). To display an image, you must surround the URL pointing to the image with [img][/img] tags. For example:
[img]http://www.a-mommys-world.com/orthis.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.a-mommys-world.com/][img]http://www.a-mommys-world.com/orthis.gif[/img][/url]
would generate:
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