How do I add formating to my posts (bold, italic...)?
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], eg.
[b]Hello[/b]
will become Hello - For underlining use [u][/u], for example:
[u]Good Morning[/u]
becomes Good Morning - To italicize text use [i][/i], eg.
This is [i]Great![/i]
would give This is Great!
How to change the text color or size
To alter the color 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 color of text is achieved by wrapping it in
[color=][/color]. You can specify either a recognized color
name (eg. red, blue, yellow, etc.) or the hexadecimal triplet alternative,
eg. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:
[color=red]Hello![/color]
or
[color=#FF0000]Hello![/color]
will both output Hello! - Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using
[size=][/size]. This tag is dependent on the template you are
using but the recommended format is a numerical value representing the
text size in pixels, starting at 1 (so tiny you will not see it) through
to 29 (very large). For example:
[size=9]SMALL[/size]
will generally be SMALL
whereas:
[size=24]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=18][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]