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BBCode
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Introduction
What is BBCode?
BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can actually use
BBCode in your posts at TheStrategyLab.com discussion
forums is determined by the administrator
M.A. Perry (a.k.a NihabaAshi). In addition you can disable BBCode on
a per post basis via the posting form. 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.
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Text Formatting
How to create bold, italic and 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 [b][/b],
e.g.
[b]Hello[/b]
will become Hello
- For underlining use [u][/u], for example:
[u]Good Morning[/u]
becomes Good Morning
- To italicise text use [i][/i], e.g.
This is [i]Great![/i]
would give This is Great!
How to change the text colour or 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 red text you
could use:
[color=red]Hello![/color]
or
[color=#FF0000]Hello![/color]
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!
Can I combine formatting tags?
Yes, of course you can, for example to get someones attention you may
write:
[size=200][color=red][b]LOOK AT ME![/b][/color][/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:
[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u]
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Quoting and
Outputting Fixed-Width Text
Quoting text in replies
There are two ways you can quote text, with a reference or without.
- When you utilise the Quote function to reply to a post on the board
you should notice that the post text is added to the message window
enclosed in a [quote=""][/quote] block. This method
allows you to quote with a reference to a person or whatever else you
choose to put! For example to quote a piece of text Mr. Blobby wrote you
would enter:
[quote="Mr. Blobby"]The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go
here[/quote]
The resulting output will automatically add "Mr. Blobby wrote:" before
the actual text. Remember you must include the
quotation marks "" around the name you are quoting, they are not
optional.
- The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise
this enclose the text in [quote][/quote] tags. When you
view the message it will simply show the text within a quotation block.
Outputting code or fixed width data
If you want to output a piece of code or in fact anything that
requires a fixed width, e.g. Courier type font you should enclose the text
in [code][/code] tags, e.g.
[code]echo "This is some code";[/code]
All formatting used within [code][/code] tags is retained
when you later view it. PHP syntax highlighting can be enabled using
[code=php][/code] and is recommended when posting PHP
code samples as it improves readability.
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Generating Lists
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
[list][/list] and define each item within the list using
[*]. For example to list your favourite colours you could use:
[list]
[*]CME
[*]CBOT
[*]EUREX
[/list]
This would generate the following list:
Creating an Ordered list
The second type of list, an ordered list, gives you control over what
is output before each item. To create an ordered list you use
[list=1][/list] to create a numbered list or alternatively
[list=a][/list] for an alphabetical list. As with the
unordered list, items are specified using [*]. For
example:
[list=1]
[*]Go to the shops
[*]Buy a new computer
[*]Swear at computer when it crashes
[/list]
will generate the following:
- Go to the shops
- Buy a new computer
- Swear at computer when it crashes
Whereas for an alphabetical list you would use:
[list=a]
[*]The first possible answer
[*]The second possible answer
[*]The third possible answer
[/list]
giving
- The first possible answer
- The second possible answer
- The third possible answer
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Creating Links
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 phpBB.com you could use:
[url=http://www.thestrategylab.com/]Visit
TheStrategyLab.com![/url]
This would generate the following link,
Visit
TheStrategyLab.com! 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:
[url]http://www.thestrategylab.com/[/url]
This would generate the following link,
http://www.thestrategylab.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.thestrategylab.com into your
message will automatically lead to
www.thestrategylab.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:
[email]no.one@domain.adr[/email]
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),
[b][/b], etc. As with the formatting tags it is up to you to
ensure the correct open and close order is following, for example:
[url=http://www.google.com/][img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/url][/img]
is not correct which may
lead to your post being deleted so take care.
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Showing Images in
Posts
Adding attachments into a message
post
Attachments can now be placed in any part of a post by using the new
[attachment=][/attachment] BBCode, if the attachments
functionality has been enabled by a board administrator and if you are
given the appropriate permissions to create attachments. Within the
posting screen is a drop-down box (respectively a button) for placing
attachments inline.
Embedding an image
"within" a message
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:
[img]http://thestrategylab.com/images/TheStrategyLabLogo_BBcode.png[/img]
As noted in the URL section above you can wrap an image in a [url][/url]
tag if you wish, e.g.
[url=http://www.thestrategylab.com/][img]http://thestrategylab.com/images/TheStrategyLabLogo_BBcode.png[/img][/url]
would generate:
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FTSE100 CAC40 EC EMD ER2
ES NQ YM QQQQ SPY
IWM DIA HSI CL QM NG
OIH XLE GC GLD ZN
ZB ZF BUND EurUsd
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