BBCode Guide

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 replys Outputting code 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

Text Formatting

How to create bold, italic, underlined and lined-through text BBCode includes tags to allow you to quickly change the basic style of your text. This is achieved in the following ways: bold text: [b]Hello[/b] will become Hello underlined text: [u]Good Morning[/u] becomes Good Morning italic text: [i]Great![/i] would give This is Great! Back to top

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: [color=red]Hello![/color] or [color=#FF0000]Hello![/color] will both output Hello! [size=1]SMALL[/size] will generally be SMALL or: [size=5]HUGE![/size] will be HUGE! [font=courier]Courier[/font] will generally be Courier Back to top

Can I combine formatting tags? Yes, of course you can, for example to get someones attention you may write: [size=5][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 it is up to you, the poster to ensure tags are closed correctly. For example the following is incorrect: [b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u] Back to top

Quoting and outputting fixed-width text

Quoting text in replys [quote=Mr. Blobby]The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go here[/quote] [quote]The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go here[/quote] Back to top

Outputting code or fixed width data [code]echo "This is some code";[/code] All formatting used within [code][/code] tags is retained when you later view it. Back to top

Generating lists

Creating an undordered list [list] [*]Red [*]Blue [*]Yellow [/list] This would generate the following list: Red Blue Yellow Creating an orderedlist [list=1] [*]Red [*]Blue [*]Yellow [/list=1] This would generate the following list: Red Blue Yellow [list=a] [*]Red [*]Blue [*]Yellow [/list=a] This would generate the following list: Red Blue Yellow Back to top

Creating Links

Linking to another site [url=http://www.webspell.at]Visit WebSPELL[/url] This would generate the following link, Visit WebSPELL [url]http://www.webspell.at[/url] This would generate the following link, www.webspell.at [email]no.one@domain.adr[/email] which will output no.one@domain.adr. [email=no.one@domain.adr]email me[/email] which will output email me Back to top

Showing images in posts

Adding an image to a post [img]http://www.webspell.org/images/linkus/1.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.webspell.org/][img]http://www.webspell.org/images/linkus/1.gif[/img][/url] would generate: Back to top