BBcode Practice

paulb203 · 2025-04-17 04:12:57

Writing my first BBcode sentence, hopefully in bold

Post preview suggests that it worked; now let's hope this sentence is in italics

Result. Bold, and italics seem straightforward enough; now for 'emphasis'

Interesting. What's the difference between italics and emphasis?

Now for strikethrough

This is fun. I'm using code. Next stop; Rule the Universe! Bob, you've created a MONSTER! Mwhahahahahahaha!

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Bob · 2025-04-17 04:40:40

Italics means sloping

Emphasis means bold

Monster? Nay! Admin have super powers to disintegrate unwanted characters. And a character has two meanings; both of which are vulnerable.
B

paulb203 · 2025-04-17 05:24:22

Cheers, Bob.

And lol

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You said emphasis is bold; I got sloping lines (same as italics) when I used the 'em' brackets etc

Also, is heading text just the same as bold?

ktesla39 · 2025-04-17 14:57:32

Hey, I just write 'Hello Guys'. Nothing serious. Using BBCode is fun.

paulb203 · 2025-04-17 22:47:59

Hello, ktesla39. Yes, it is fun, especially for me, as I've often never used any kind of code before.

Question for you, and Bob, and anyone else reading this. Have you memorised all the commands/tags/whatever it is you call the bracketed thingys, and now when you use it is as simple as typing any kind of text?

P.S. Why is this block of yellow text called 'inserted text'?

ktesla39 · 2025-04-17 23:28:10

I dont remember the tags. I had used sympy and HTML before. In HTML, things are similar. You use For italics .For bold . And much more. HTML was even more powerful if you used JavaScript and CSS with it.

Bob · 2025-04-18 00:48:18

Have I told you where to look for a long list of these?

Go to help and you'll find it in the third thread.

The thread existed long before I joined but it was hidden. I stumbled on it one day and copied it into the post in help.me
The whereabouts of the original is a mystery but I've added to my version so that's the place to go.

Do I know them all? Certainly not! I don't fill my head with stuff like that

No idea why they are given those names. Someone thought it was a good name I guess.

Bob

ktesla39 · 2025-04-18 00:59:49

{i} BBcode html
{b} Bbcode html
{url} ------> <a> /anchor
{u} ---------> 
{img} -------> <img>………

Some are similar in HTML and BBcode. Maybe they used those names because they were easy to remember and logical.

I know more HTML than BBcode. The names are logical in HTML:

<canvas> For drawing
<video> For videos
<script> For JavaScript
<title> For title
 To change font…………

Bob · 2025-04-18 01:17:25

I googled it. bbcode is a subset of HTML used by forums
The code is passed to the browser to be implemented as HTML.

Used by forums for simplicity and to keep out malicious code.

Bob

ktesla39 · 2025-04-18 01:28:51

That's why HTML doesn't work here:
 Just italics 
Neither does PHP:
<?php
echo "Hi";
?>

paulb203 · Today 09:50:29

Bob wrote:

Have I told you where to look for a long list of these?
Go to help and you'll find it in the third thread.

Thanks, Bob

Bob wrote:

Do I know them all? Certainly not! I don't fill my head with stuff like that

So do you just get to know by heart the ones that you use frequently, without trying to memorise them; and consult the list when there's one you've either forgotten or didn't know by heart in the first place?

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