Forum Tips: Forum Text Formatting



What is a BBCode?

There are instances when you are not allowed to use HTML in your posts, so for this BBCode allows you to format your texts.



You can use “tags” to add formatting to your text and these tags are enclosed in brackets “[ I am a bracket ]”. Opening and closing tags are used to mark some areas in your text. A Closing Tag has “[/”. All the brackets (opening and closing) are very important.



You can make parts of your text stand out by adding:

[b]old

[i]talic

[u]nderlined

[s]trikeout

[color] à this can be any color name (red, blue, green, white, etc) or color values such as #CDCDCD, #FFFFFF

[size] à smallest font size is 6 and largest is 48

[font] à Arial, Arial Black, Courier, Courier New, Helvetica, Impact, Times New Roman, Verdana, etc.

These allow you to manipulate your texts accordingly. They also require parameters which is preceded by an equal sign “=”.



Here is an example of how to use these tags:

[color=blue] car [/color] à the word car will be displayed in blue



Here are more examples:










































usage

display

I [b]need to do[/b] this by the weekend

I need to do this by the weekend

John said that [i]we should[/i] ask her

John said that we should ask her

I [u]would not like to[/u] offend you

I would not like to offend you

Let's correct this [s]mispelled[/s] misspelled word

Let's correct this mispelled misspelled word

Jane was at [color=blue]the coast[/color]

Jane was at the coast

Joe was in [color=#FF0000]the forest[/color]

Joe was in the forest

She said: [font=Courier]What?[/font]

She said: What?