Using BBCode on the boards, Making your posts more dynamic Options

[Chimp with a Lim...]

This is a quick tutorial showing all possible BBcode on the boards.

For those not in the know, you can wrap the words in your posts in certain special characters, which will make the text bold, italic, etc.

One simple way to do this is to click on the little text icons above the "new message" section. The 'B', 'I', icons will do this for you. However, you can do it manually, which can be sometimes quicker. There are plenty of extra secret ones you can use too, that aren't on the list of choosable ones.

You'll have to ignore the spaces in this tutorial, so for example [ /b] should really be [/b]

Bold:
[.b]This will make the Text bold[./b]
eg: This is bold text

Italic:
[.i]This will make the text italic[./i]
eg: This is italic text

Underlined:
[.u]This will underline the text[./u]
eg: This is underlined text

Strikethrough:
[.s]This will strikethrough the text[./s]
eg: This is strikethrough text

Coloured text:
[.color=#3333FF]This is colourised text[./color]
eg: This is colourised text

Link to a webpage:
[.url=http://www.google.com]This is a link to Google![./url]
This is a link to Google!

Link to an email address:
[.email]example@my-email.com[./email]
example@my-email.com

Link to an image:

[.img]http://www.chimpwithalimp.com/boards/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup_anim.gif[./img]

Quotation:
[.quote]This is a quote![./quote]

This is a quote!

Computer language code:
[.code]This is computer language code[./code]

CODE

This is computer language code

Left aligned text:
[.left]This text is left aligned[./left]

This text is left aligned

Centre aligned text:
[.center]This text is centre (center USA) aligned[./center]

This text is centre aligned

Right aligned text:
[.Right]This text is Right aligned[./Right]

This text is right aligned

Codebox text:
[.codebox]This is a codebox! Have a look what it does![./codebox]
eg:

CODE

This is a codebox!
Have

a

look

what

it

does

over

multiple

lines!

Perfect for
long text or
larger quotes...

Youtube link:
To make this work for you, just go to the video on youtube, and copy the part from the URL that is after the v=, and place it between [.youtube]????[./youtube]

So when you have the address, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZeiBq3Irw, take the bit after the "v="

and place it in between the youtube codes, such as

[.youtube]8MZeiBq3Irw[./youtube]

eg:




Spoiler messages!
Perfect for hiding movie spoilers and correct answers to quizzes.

Eg: [.spoiler]This is a hidden Spoiler message![./spoiler]




More to come as I discover or add them
Feel free to experiment with these over at the Test Area in Monkey Business

[Chimp with a Lim...]

I'm just testing the new acronym post option

How to: [ acronym=Loads of extra info can be hidden too!]Extra Info![ /acronym]

Example: Extra Info!

[Chimp with a Lim...]

Youtube videos can now be embedded either by [ youtube] tags or the shorter version [yt ], both to be used without the spaces.
They'll also have a nice option for 'fullscreen' from now on, something I started to notice was missing.



See above for full instruction!