BBCode guide
Introduction
What is BBCode?

Text formatting
How to create bold, italic and underlined text?
Can I combine formatting tags?

Creating links
Linking to another site
Introduction
What is BBCode?
BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. It is used in popular forum systems such as phpBB and others. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML: tags are enclosed in square braces [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed.
This guide will show you the BBCode tags supported in this guestbook so that you can make your messages look nicer ;).

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Text formatting
How to create bold, italic and underlined text?
BBCode includes tags to allo 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 italicise text use [i][/i], eg.

    This is [i]Great![/i]

    would give This is Great!


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Can I combine formatting tags?
Yes, of course you can; for example you may write:

[u][b]LOOK AT [i]ME![/i][/b][/u]

this would output LOOK AT ME!

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Creating links
Linking to another site
YapGB 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 YapGB official site you could use:

    [url=http://www.hewop.com/~yapgb/]Visit YapGB site![/url]

    This would generate the following link, Visit YapGB site! You will notice the link opens in a new window so the user can continue browsing the guestbook if they wish.

  • If you want the URL itself displayed as the link you can do this by simply using:

    [url]http://www.hewop.com/~yapgb/[/url]

    This would generate the following link: http://www.hewop.com/~yapgb/

  • The same thing applies equally to email addresses; but this time you use the [email][/email] tags:

    [email=no.one@domain.adr]Send me a message![/email]

    will generate this email link: Send me a message!.

  • And you can let the email be the link text by using:

    [email]no.one@domain.adr[/email]

    which will output no.one@domain.adr.


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