BBCode – A guide to formatting your posts

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Bulletin Board Code or BBCode is a language used to format text within posts. The formatting may be accomplished by first selecting the text then using the desired BBCode button or by manually framing the text with the appropriate BBCode. The following are examples of BBCode that may be used in posts on this forum:


The following BBCode:

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I would like to [b]emphasize[/b] this

Yields this:
I would like to emphasize this

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Making text [i]italic[/i] is kind of easy

Yields this:
Making text italic is kind of easy

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u is used for the [u]underline[/u] tag

Yields this:
u is used for the underline tag

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[quote]'It's a good day[/quote]

Yields this:

'It's a good day

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[code]$this_var = "Hello World!";[/code]

Yields this:

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$this_var = "Hello World!";

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[list][*]Bread [*]Milk [*]Butter [/list]

Yields this:

• Bread
• Milk
• Butter

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[list=1][*]Bread [*]Milk [*]Butter [/list]

Yields this:

1. Bread
2. Milk
3. Butter

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The following BBCode:

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[list=a][*]Bread [*]Milk [*]Butter [/list]

Yields this:

1. Bread
2. Milk
3. Butter

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The following BBCode:

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[url]www.rotondawest.org[/url]

Yields this:
http://www.rotondawest.org

Note: The forum software will automatically turn any syntactically correct URL into a link without you needing to specify any BBCode or even the leading http://. For example typing www.rotondawest.org into your message will automatically lead to http://www.rotondawest.org being output when you view the message.

This feature works similarly on e-mail addresses; admin.forum@rotondawest.org becomes admin.forum@rotondawest.org.