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BBCode, HTML, and you!

Post by ChaseThisLight » Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:57 pm

One of the most frequently asked questions is how to use BBCode and HTML in your posts and signatures. Here is a basic guide to using them and all the cool things you can do with them.

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BBCode
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Bold Text:

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[b]your text here[/b]

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Italic Text:

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[i]your text here[/i]
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Underlined Text:

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 [u]your text here[/u] 
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Quote:

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[quote] quoted text here [/quote]
quoted text here
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Quote using member name:

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[quote="member name"]quoted text here[/quote]
member name wrote: quoted text here
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Show code for a particular excerpt (like I am doing for this tutorial)

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[code] [b][i][u]coded text here displayed with appropriate code[/b][/i][/u]
[/code]
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Display Images

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 [img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/features/2002/07/images/marmite/zippy_jar_150.jpg[/img]
Image
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Create a URL link:

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[url=http://buslist.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=39408&start=0]Ship Wrecked[/url]
Ship Wrecked
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Colors: (Color list found in drop down menu above text box)

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[color=red]Red Text[/color]
Red Text
If you want more colors than the pull down list, you can use their RGB numbers here's a chart of those colors and their associated numbers

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[color=#993300]colored text[/color]
colored text
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Font Size: (Enter number between 0-24 for font size varying from small to huge)

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[size=7]Size 7 font[/size]
Size 7 font
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Making an unordered list

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[list][*]marmite[*]vegemite[*]promite[/list]
  • marmite
  • vegemite
  • promite
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Making an orded list

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[list=1][*]Go to Best Buy[*]Buy a new computer[*]Throw computer out window when it crashes[/list]
  1. Go to Best Buy
  2. Buy a new computer
  3. Throw computer out window when it crashes
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[list=a][*]First possible choice[*]second possible choice[*]third possible choice[/list]
  1. First possible choice
  2. second possible choice
  3. third possible choice
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Image resize(HTML):
* the HTML image tag no longer works on BUS! this means that you must use the BBCode tag for all images (as shown above), now, and you can't use BBCode to resize images like you can with HTML. Sorry!

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If there is anything I missed or other code you would like to see, please PM me and I will update this ASAP.
Last edited by ChaseThisLight on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by Guest » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:25 pm

Chase or anyone elce, how do you do the code for say writing a text and have a single word for the link instead of the very long url?

Pm me if you want instead
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Post by amerylis » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:03 pm

ooo I can answer this,

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[url=http://buslist.org/phpBB/posting.php?mode=reply&t=84313]this thread[/url]
this thread

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Post by Proximity » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:53 pm

I added how to align things to the right, how to get more colors by using their number codes instead of their names, and I changed the section on HTML images, because this tag:

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<img>
no longer works on BUS, so it can't be used to post or change the size of images.

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Post by Chimera » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:31 pm

I have a favorite site that I use for HTML colors, and it's different than the one that's listed...you could add that if it would be something people are interested in.

http://www.immigration-usa.com/html_colors.html


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Post by pelagic » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:51 pm

Do we have a generator-thing where you type in your sentence, and two colours, and it makes it go gradually from one colour to the next? :oops: *is feeling silly for asking*

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Post by ChaseThisLight » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:27 am

No we don't. I don't believe it's a function that's available with this version of phpBB.
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Post by pelagic » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:37 pm

Oh, really? That's too bad.

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Post by Stripe » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:40 pm

<center>stripes in more than just shades of grey
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Post by pelagic » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:45 pm

Oh, thank you!
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Post by Chey Kizoxie » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:32 pm

interesting!

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Post by ChaseThisLight » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:59 pm

I think I misunderstood...there isn't a way to type in a [] command to do it, but I guess if you go step by step through the gradient you can. Wow...without a generator that would be sloooooow!
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Post by Stripe » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:18 am

I did it without once... it was sooo pointless
<center>stripes in more than just shades of grey
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Post by wilson » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:18 am

haha pagmie is that the site i showed you?
haha.
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Post by Stripe » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:39 pm

Yes

I blame the wilson :wink:
<center>stripes in more than just shades of grey
Image</center>

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Post by Chey Kizoxie » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:11 pm

but it is kinda neat!

Hey El, how did you get your text to go both ways? Its pretty and goes with your sig pic :)

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Post by Stripe » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:54 pm

The way I did it when I had that style was to go from red to blue, remembering my start and finish colours, then from blue back to red...
<center>stripes in more than just shades of grey
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Post by Chey Kizoxie » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:17 pm

ok makes sence.

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Post by wilson » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:24 am

yeah thats what i did.
just took me a while cos i tried to gt it in the middle
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R.I.P. 1953-2008

counting stars

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Post by shelligurl07 » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:12 pm

ABSOLUTLY AMAIZING THANK YOU ALL i have stolen everything *tehe* j/k this page IS reall helpful tho :)
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