What is BBCode?
BBCode is a special implementation of HTML.

Text Formating
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:

To make a piece of text bold enclose it in , e.g.

Hello

will become Hello
For underlining use , for example:

Good Morning

becomes Good Morning
To italicize text use , e.g.

This is Great!

would give This is Great!

To alter the colour 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 color of text is achieved by wrapping it in . You can specify either a recognized color name (eg. red, blue, yellow, etc.) or the hexadecimal triplet alternative, e.g. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:

Hello!

or

Hello!

Both will output Hello!
Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using . This tag is dependent on the template the user has selected but the recommended format is a numerical value representing the text size in percent, starting at 20 (very small) through to 200 (very large) by default. For example:

SMALL

will generally be SMALL

whereas:

HUGE!

will be HUGE!

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

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:



The resulting output will automatically add "Mr. Blobby wrote:" before the actual text. Remember you must include the quotation marks "" around the name you are quoting, they are not optional.
The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise this enclose the text in tags. When you view the message it will simply show the text within a quotation block.

Creating an Unordered list
BBCode supports two types of lists, unordered and ordered. They are essentially the same as their HTML equivalents. An unordered list outputs each item in your list sequentially one after the other indenting each with a bullet character. To create an unordered list you use

and define each item within the list using [*]. For example to list your favorite colors you could use:

[*]Red
[*]Blue
[*]Yellow

This would generate the following list:

Red
Blue
Yellow

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

to create a numbered list or alternatively

for an alphabetical list. As with the unordered list, items are specified using [*]. For example:

[*]Go to the shops
[*]Buy a new computer
[*]Swear at computer when it crashes

will generate the following:

Go to the shops
Buy a new computer
Swear at computer when it crashes

Whereas for an alphabetical list you would use:

[*]The first possible answer
[*]The second possible answer
[*]The third possible answer

giving

The first possible answer
The second possible answer
The third possible answer

Linking to another site

The first of these uses the tag, whatever you type after the = sign will cause the contents of that tag to act as a URL. For example to link to tanyamerced.bravesites.com you could use:

Visit A Touch of Peace!

This would generate the following link, Visit A Touch of Peace! Please notice that the link opens in the same window or a new window depending on the users browser preferences.
If you want the URL itself displayed as the link you can do this by simply using:

http://tanyamerced.bravesites.com

This would generate the following link, http://www.phpbb.com/
Additionally, phpBB features something called Magic Links, this will turn any syntactically correct URL into a link without you needing to specify any tags or even the leading http://. For example typing www.phpbb.com into your message will automatically lead to www.phpbb.com being output when you view the message.
The same thing applies equally to e-mail addresses, you can either specify an address explicitly for example:

[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 "> (see next entry), [/b], etc. As with the formatting tags it is up to you to ensure the correct open and close order is following, for example:



is not correct which may lead to your post being deleted so take care.

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 secondly 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 "> tags. For example:



As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a tag if you wish, e.g.

%%bbCodeItem_1%%

would generate:

Thanks for teaching me something new

YouRock

Did it work?? Lol

SMALL

Hope it works!

***Wandy you have to close the command with a bracket a backslash / and the word size and close it with a bracket in order for the command to work.

example [/size]