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BBCode Help

Contents

1. Introduction to BBCode
2. Text formatting
3. Objects
4. Lists
5. Tables
6. Dialogs
7. Smilies
8. Combinations of BBCode

Introduction to BBCode

BBCode is a way of a webmaster providing users of submitting rich content without having to know about any HTML or styles used on the web site.

It is also safer and more limited to help prevent users destroying a site layout as you could with HTML.

Special tags are used and parsed by the web server to build a HTML body with all the common formatting options and objects.

To create some bold text in HTML you would enter <strong>your bold text here like ths</strong>. With BBCode, you can enter it like [b]this[/b].

A webmaster can also adjust the style of the website without having to worry about updating any BBCode content submitted.

If you'd like to know more about BBCode's origin and history, see this wikipedia entry.

All BBCode is case-insensitive.

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Text formatting

These tags allow you to change the look of your text.

Option	Example	Output
Bold	[B]This is some text.[/B]	This is some text.
Italics	[I]This is some text.[/I]	This is some text.
Underline	[U]This is some text.[/U]	This is some text.
Strikethrough	[S]This is some text.[/S]	This is some text.
Emphasise / highlight	[EM]This is some text.[/EM]	This is some text.
Big	[big]This is some text.[/big]	This is some text.
Small	[small]This is some text.[/small]	This is some text.
Heading: Main	[H1]This is some text.[/H1]	This is some text.
Heading: Sub	[H2]This is some text.[/H2]	This is some text.
Quote	[quote]This is some text.[/quote]	This is some text.
Pre-formatted / code	[pre]This is some text.[/pre]	This is some text.

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Objects

These tags allow you to insert various objects found in most web pages.

Option	Example	Output
Image	[img]http://sc.multiplay.co.uk/images/icons/image_l.gif[/img]
Link	[url]http://i32.multiplay.co.uk/[/url]	http://i32.multiplay.co.uk/
Link with custom text	[url=http://i32.multiplay.co.uk/]Multiplay i32[/url]	Multiplay i32
Email address	[url]mailto:cool@beans.org[/url]	mailto:cool@beans.org
Email address with custom text	[url=mailto:cool@beans.org]Cool Beans[/url]	Cool Beans

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Lists

These tags allow you to insert ordered or unordered lists.

Option	Example	Output
Unordered List	[list] [*]Item 1[/*] [*]Item 2[/*] [*]Item 3[/*] [/list]	Item 1 Item 2 Item 3
Ordered List	[list1] [*]Item 1[/*] [*]Item 2[/*] [*]Item 3[/*] [/list1]	Item 1 Item 2 Item 3
List Item	This is used within a list above. Not on it's own.

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Tables

This will allow you to insert a table.

Tables consist of upto 4 elements.

Option	Description
Table	This is the outer framework starting and ending the table.
Table Row	This defines the start and end of a row.
Table Cell: Heading	This creates a heading cell within a row.
Table Cell	This creates a regular cell within a row.

Example table build:

[table]
[tr]
[th]Heading[/th]
[th]Heading[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Regular cell[/td]
[td]Regular cell[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td=td1]Cell type 1[/td]
[td=td1h]Cell type 1 highlighted[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td=td2]Cell type 2[/td]
[td=td2h]Cell type 2 highlighted[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td=tf]Footer[/td]
[td=tf]Footer[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

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Dialogs

You may wish to put one of the 4 dialogs you see on this website in your message. They are:

Dialog	Example	Output
Information	[info][big]Information[/big] This is some text.[/info]	Information This is some text.
Question	[question][big]Question[/big] This is some text.[/question]	Question This is some text.
Warning	[warning][big]Warning[/big] This is some text.[/warning]	Warning This is some text.
Error	[error][big]Error[/big] This is some text.[/error]	Error This is some text.

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Smilies

We can't have BBCode without smilies, so here is a list. Simply type the code in your post to bring up the smiley.

To assist compatibility with each other, smilies are case sensitive.

Code	Image
:yes:
:angel:
:arrow:
:D
:bow:
:S
:?
8-)
:'(
:cry:
:no:
8|
:eek:
:evil:
:!:
:(
:frown:
X(
:furious:
:heart:
:love:
:idea:
:lol:
:mad:
^^
:mrgreen:
:|
:paper:
:-/
:drunk:
:?:	:
:P
:roll:
:rolleyes:
:sad:
:shrug:
:)
:o
:twisted:
:]
:bash:
:wallbash:
;)
:nod:

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Combinations of BBCode

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