A Beginner's Guide To Using BBC Code

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

Code:

[b]Hello[/b]

will become Hello
For underlining use use a 'U' , for example:

Code:

[u]Good Morning[/u]

becomes Good Morning
To italicise text use an 'I' , e.g.

Code:

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 . 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:

Code:

[color=red]Hello![/color]

or

Code:

[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 7(very small) through to 24 (very large) by default. For example:

Code:

[size=7]SMALL[/size]

will generally be SMALL

whereas:

Code:

[size=24]HUGE![/size]

will be HUGE!

Combining Code Tags:

Yes, can do it, for example to get someones attention you may write:

Code:

[size=24][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:

Code:

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][u][u][/u]

Code:

[b[u As Is This... [b[u

Creating Links:
BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs (Uniform Resource Indicators) better known as URLs.
The first of these uses the '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:

Code:

[url=http://www.roleplaygalore.com/]Join Galore![/url]

This would generate the following link, Join Galore!
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:

Code:

[url]http://www.roleplaygalore.com/[/url]

This would generate the following link [url] http://www.roleplaygalore.com/[/url]
The same thing applies equally to email addresses, you can either specify an address explicitly for example:

Code:

[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 the image tag 'img'(see next entry), the bold tag 'b', etc. As with the formatting tags it is up to you to ensure the correct open and close order is following, for example:

Code:

[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.
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