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This Forum's BBCode Help Thread
« on: April 27, 2015, 05:09:19 pm »
BBCode or Bulletin Board Code is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards.

I aim to compile all the neat and useful stuff available to spice up your experience when contributing to these fine forums. Forum Games and Roleplaying is one of the internet's most active hubs for forum games(I blame it on the fact that with how complex some game makers make the games, it takes Dwarf Fortress player's to derive pleasure in unraveling them), So I intent to highlight any code or tricks that may help with creating games, which should cover many more common uses aswell. So let's get started!

Tip! Before we break out the markers, colored paper, and crazy glue, lets talk about your eraser: [nobbc] and it's matching closing tag [/nobbc]. With this, all BBCode inside will not work, which is good for discussing it. just so you know!

Spoiler: BASICS: These are all the BBCodes you have buttons to insert when writing a post. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: BASICS+: You may notice some code inserted with the quick bar buttons that you don't understand. Until now! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: COOL TRICKS: Having fun with the tools you've been given. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES (click to show/hide)

BONUS
Spoiler: ✎ COLOR NAMES: Every single known color name compatible with this forum! (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: ♞ SYMBOLS: All the best symbols compatible with this forum! (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: ☻ EXTREMELY USEFUL SETTINGS FOR THESE FORUMS (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: ❦ FONT TEST (click to show/hide)
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And thanks to all who are and were enthusiastic about this ongoing project!

Official resource: here
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=153900.msg6591948#msg6591948

The thread itself is meant to be a place to ask and answer questions. For example:


Original post:
I was wondering if there is a resource to see what BBC is enabled specifically to this forum. For example I want to add 'hover text' to images, though I dont know how or if this forum can do it.
« Last Edit: February 02, 2016, 06:13:39 am by GameBoyBlue »
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2015, 05:10:11 pm »
I'm not sure where something like that would be, but hover text definitely exists.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2015, 05:11:09 pm »
Not sure if it works for images,
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2015, 05:14:10 pm »
Text is like this:
Code: [Select]
[abbr=hover text is here]normal text goes here[/abbr]
Does it work for images?
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2015, 05:15:29 pm »
Yes, yes it does.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2015, 05:46:52 pm »
Thanks! Ok, if there is no guide then this will be it. Post BBC questions and tricks here! Or die.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2015, 06:06:38 pm »
Code: [Select]
[color=transparent]Use this to be annoying.[/color]
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2015, 06:10:24 pm »
There's
  • this option

which is
Code: [Select]
[x]and I only discovered it last week :D
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2015, 01:52:38 pm »
Quote from: GameBoyBlue on April 27, 2015, 05:09:19 pm
I was wondering if there is a resource to see what BBC is enabled specifically to this forum. For example I want to add 'hover text' to images, though I dont know how or if this forum can do it.

You can link to sections of a post using

Code: [Select]
[anchor=anchor]...[/anchor]

[iurl=#anchor]...[/iurl]

...









...


Horizontal rules:

Code: [Select]
[hr]


Provides monospace for ASCII art.

Code: [Select]
[tt][/tt]


Images can be resized by adding width=x and/or height=y to the tag. Leaving either out will maintain proportions.

Code: [Select]
[img width=x height=y][/img]


Under 'Attachments and other options', you can elect to keep smileys in plain text.


Oh yeah, and if you're not using Darkling as your theme you should be.
Profile->Modify->Look and Layout->Current theme (change)->Darkling.


So yeah, please don't kill me. That's all the hidden trickery I can think of offhand.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2015, 01:53:51 pm »
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« Last Edit: November 22, 2015, 09:52:27 pm by penguinofhonor »
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2015, 01:55:43 pm »
Quote from: penguinofhonor on April 28, 2015, 01:53:51 pm
The Bay 12 Broadcasting Corporation?

Honestly, when I first opened this thread, my head was full of theories on what the title could mean - someone claiming this forum is like the BBC (and whether that was good or bad)? Someone asking what the BBC-equivalent of this forum is? This is cool too. I GUESS.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2015, 02:02:58 pm »
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« Last Edit: November 22, 2015, 09:52:31 pm by penguinofhonor »
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2015, 02:06:52 pm »
These are all really useful, especially the horizontal bar and [tt| tags, but hover text kinda irritates me. I don't want to slowly skim over every word in a post on the off chance it contains some hidden message.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2015, 02:11:14 pm »
I'm going to take a guess here and say you're using Chrome. Firefox displays a dashed underline below words that are allegedly abbreviations, as (I believe) does IE.
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Re: This Forum's BBC
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2015, 02:15:14 pm »
IE doesn't, actually.
I know since I'm using it right now.
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