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BBCode

BBCode is a collection of formatting tags that are used to change the look of text in this forum. BBCode is based on the same principal as, and is very similar to, HTML. Below is a list of all the available BBCodes and instructions on how to use them.

Administrators have the ability to enable or disable BBCode. You can tell if BBCode is enabled or disabled out in the left margin whenever you post a message or edit your signature.

Text style

The following tags change the appearance of text:

[b]Bold text[/b] produces Bold text

[u]Underlined text[/u] produces Underlined text

[i]Italic text[/i] produces Italic text

[s]Strike-through text[/s] produces ~~Strike-through text~~

[color=#FF0000]Red text[/color] produces Red text

[color=blue]Blue text[/color] produces Blue text

[font=Courier]some text[/font] produces some text

[sup]some text[/sup] produces ^{some text}

[sub]some text[/sub] produces _{some text}

[li]first line[/li] produces • first line

[scroll]scrolling text[/scroll] produces scrolling text

To set alignment:

[align=left]some text[/align] produces         some text

[align=center]some text[/align] produces                        some text

[align=right]some text[/align] produces                                               some text

Links and images

You can create links to other documents or to e-mail addresses using the following tags:

[url=http://friendstertalk.com/]FriendsterTalk[/url] produces FriendsterTalk

[url]http://friendstertalk.com/[/url] produces http://friendstertalk.com/

[email]myname@mydomain.com[/email] produces myname@mydomain.com

[email=myname@mydomain.com]My e-mail address[/email] produces My e-mail address

If you want to display an image you can use the img tag.

[img]http://friendstertalk.com/pix/logo_white.gif[/img] produces

Quotes

If you want to quote someone, you should use the quote tag.

[quote=James]This is the text i want to quote.[/quote]

produces a quote box like this:

James wrote:
This is the text i want to quote.

If you don't want to quote anyone in particular, you can use the quote tag without specifying a name.

[quote]This is the text i want to quote.[/quote]

produces a quote box like this:

This is the text i want to quote.

There is also a special quote tag for spoiler

[spoiler]This is the spoiler[/spoiler]

produces a quote box like this:

Code

When displaying source code you should make sure that you use the code tag. Text displayed with the code tag will use a monospaced font and will not be affected by other tags.

[code]This is some code.[/code]

produces a code box like this:

Code:

This is some code.

Flash and Video

To include flash file and video from YouTube or GoogleVideo. (Flash file dimension should be more than 20x20 px)

[flash=400x300]http://something.com/flash.swf[/flash]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=12345678[/youtube]

[googlevid]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=12345678[/googlevid]

Nested tags

BBCode can be nested to create more advanced formatting. For example:

[b][u]Bold, underlined text[/u][/b] produces Bold, underlined text

Private part of the post

You can set some part of your post to private. The private part can only be seen by members with post count > 100.

[private][code]Some private text or code[/code][/private]

produces:

Code:

Some private text or code

But guests and newbies will see it as follows:

This part is set to private. Guests and Newbies are not able to view it.

Smilies

If you like (and if it is enabled), the forum can convert a series of smilies to images representations of that smiley. This forum recognizes the following smilies and replaces them with images:

:) produces