BBCode guide

[AlanMiller1]

URL for BBCode guide does not appear to be working in my IE8.

Alan

[Samantha]

Using Chrome I get a 404 error.

Samantha

[mwolfman]

It's an issue - looking into it.

[mwolfman]

Got it - URL was off. Go back to WFOH and try the link now.

[Samantha]

Works perfectly, thanks!

[AlanMiller1]

Got it - URL was off. Go back to WFOH and try the link now.

Nice one! Still got the touch, I see.

Alan

[AlanMiller1]

I thought it might be useful, early on in the peace, to toss in this (IMHO) handy little tool for using BB Codes:

Special Characters - esp. good for BB codes

Alan

[John Gray]

Got it - URL was off. Go back to WFOH and try the link now.

It http://www.eileenslounge.com/phpbb/faq.php?mode=bbcode doesn't work for me in Firefox 3.6, either - one gets an Error 404...

I'm clamouring to see if one can do      and how to escape tags like wot we could do previously...

[HansV]

Alan's post was about the link in the Tutorial: BBcodes. That link has been corrected. The link in Alan's post is the old one that doesn't work.

[John Gray]

Aha - that link http://www.eileenslounge.com/faq.php?mode=bbcode loses the '/phpbb', and works - thanks!

But is seems not to include all possible tags, examples being [ code], [ user] and the [ table] stuff.
And how to escape tags so that they can be shown as text and not interpreted...

No doubt this will come All In Good Time?!

[HansV]

Tags such as user and table are custom tags created by the admins. They are documented in the Tutorial that I mentioned.

To escape tags you have two options:
- Tick the check box 'Disable BBCode' in the options below the edit area. This acts on the entire post.
- Insert [b]...[/b] between the brackets

[John Gray]

Thanks, Hans!

[AlanMiller1]

To escape tags you have two options:
- Tick the check box 'Disable BBCode' in the options below the edit area. This acts on the entire post.
- Insert [b]...[/b] between the brackets

How about the [ and ] tags of old?
These were a really handy and straightforward method of doing it "as you type.

Alan

[HansV]

I might experiment with it if I find the time.

[John Gray]

The [] tags would be neat, if you have time.

Also something like      to insert some  s (good grief, what a peculiar ampersand that is - is it correct?)

Thanks

[HansV]

The phpBB software does not support opening tags without a corresponding closing tag, so it'd have to be something like     . I'll experiment with this too.

[John Gray]

So no [br /] either?!

[HansV]

No, but what would you want to use that for?

[John Gray]

Just a pedantic comment, Hans! New line is so useful in HTML...

[HansV]

I have added two new BBCode tags:

[t]url[/t] results in [url]

[tab][/tab] results in 4 non-breaking spaces.

I have added them to the Tutorial: BBCodes

Note: this will not be applied retroactively to existing posts (but it will if you edit them).