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What is BBCode?

BBCode is a special implementation of HTML . BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML, tags are enclosed in square brackets [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. Depending on the template you are using you may find adding BBCode to your posts is made much easier through a clickable interface above the message area on the posting form. Even with this you may find the following guide useful.




Below are the basic functions for general posting and linking within posts using BBcode.. If the problem your having is not listed here please feel free to contact the forum admin or moderators.

HOW TO CREATE BOLD, ITALIC & 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 , e.g.

Hello

will become Hello
For underlining use , for example:

Good Morning

becomes Good Morning
To italicise text use , e.g.

This is Great!

would give This is Great!




HOW TO CHANGE THE TEXT COLOR AND 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 rcyan text you could use:

Hello!

or

Hello!

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!



LINKING TO ANOTHER SITE
phpBB 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 trugroovez.com you could use:

Visit Trugroovez!

This would generate the following link, Visit TruGeoovez! 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:

http://www.trugroovez.com/

This would generate the following link, http://www.trugroovez.com/
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.phpbb.com into your message will automatically lead to www.trugroovez.com 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:

no.one@domain.com

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

[img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]

is not correct which may lead to your post being deleted so take care.


ADDING IMAGES TO A POST
phpBB 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:



As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a [url][/url] tag if you wish, e.g.

[ img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]

would generate:




Can I combine formatting tags? Yes, of course you can, for example to get someones attention you may write:

[size=200]LOOK AT ME![/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:

This is wrong




Creating an Unordered list
BBCode supports two types of lists, unordered and ordered. They are essentially the same as their HTML equivalents. An unordered list outputs each item in your list sequentially one after the other indenting each with a bullet character. To create an unordered list you use

and define each item within the list using [*]. For example to list your favourite colours you could use:

• Red
  
• Blue
  
• Yellow
  

This would generate the following list:

Red
Blue
Yellow

ADVANCED POSTING FEATURES

CREATING SIGNATURES

POSTING A YOUTUBE VIDEO

POSTING A GOOGLE VIDEO

LINKING TO A MIX OR SOUND FILE:

ADDING MARQUEE TAGS:
Example

[mia_angel]

how do i get an avatar?

[GrooveJunkie]

Click on your profile, at the bottom of the profile page you will see a Avator Control Panel with options to upload your pic (avatar)