bbcode help
As with most forums, the snarkpit message boards support standard bbcode tags which should be familiar to most people.
A list of supported tags and further help is listed below.
Text Formatting
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 [b][/b], e.g.
[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], e.g.
This is [i]Great![/i]
would give This is Great!
How to change the text colour or size
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 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, e.g. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:
[color=red]Hello![/color]
or
[color=#FF0000]Hello![/color]
Both will output Hello! - Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using [size=][/size]. 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:
[size=30]SMALL[/size]
will generally be SMALL
whereas:
[size=200]HUGE![/size]
will be HUGE!
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 phpBB.com you could use:
[url=http://www.snarkpit.net/]Visit Snarkpit![/url]
This would generate the following link, Visit Snarkpit! 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:
[url]http://www.snarkpit.net/[/url]
This would generate the following link, http://www.snarkpit.net/ - 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.snarkpit.net into your message will automatically lead to www.snarkpit.net 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.
[url=http://www.google.com/][img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/url][/img]
is not correct which may lead to your post being deleted so take care.
Inserting images
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 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 [img][/img] tags. For example:
[img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]
As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a [url][/url] tag if you wish, e.g.
[url=http://www.google.com/][img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img][/url]
would generate:
