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| Topic Started: Feb 15 2008, 04:44 AM (407 Views) | |
| Post #1 Feb 15 2008, 04:44 AM | Joe E. Holman |
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What is BBcode? It is the board's coding used to adjust the styles in posts. If you have no frequented many forums and need some help in the basics of BBcode, here are some basics... 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: NOTE: Just remove all periods from the brackets and the changes will take effect... * To make a piece of text bold enclose it in [.b][./b], eg. Hello * For underlining use [.u][./u], for example: Good Morning * To italicise text use [.i][./i], eg. This is Great! 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: * Changing the colour of text is achieved by wrapping it in [.color=][./color]. Hello! or [.color=#FF0000]Hello![./color] (This style is with what is called a hexadecimal code. It is slightly different, more advanced, and gives more options, but just a basic color name will be sufficient.) * 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] [SIZE=9]SMALL[/SIZE] whereas: [.size=24]HUGE![./size] [SIZE=23]HUGE![/SIZE] 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 [SIZE=18]LOOK AT ME![/SIZE] 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]The text Mr. Pringle wrote would go here.[./QUOTE]
URL Tags, email links, and images can be done too... [.url]www.ministerturnsatheist.org[./url] www.ministerturnsatheist.org [.email]joeh@ministerturnsatheist.org[./email] joeh@ministerturnsatheist.org [.IMG]http://www.science-at-home.de/bilder/personen/carl_sagan.jpg[./IMG]  Well, that's the basics. [SIZE=14]JUST REMEMBER TO TAKE OUT THE PERIODS IN THE ABOVE EXAMPLES. THEY ARE FOR ILLUSTRATION ONLY TO MAKE THE CODE ITSELF DEMONSTRATBLE! [/SIZE] Hope this helps. (JH) |
 
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