A small UBB tutorial

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Trueguey (22)

Posted 13 years ago.

Here is a small tutorial on using UBB code on this site/forum. You may already know UBB but there are a couple of advance features on this site. In the examples below there are extra spaces between the brackets, this is to stop my parser from converting the text into UBB code, you will need to remove the spaces for your posts.

UBB code uses square brackets rather than the normal html brackets: <>

The basic ones are [ b], [ i] and [u]:
- [ b] makes the text bold, [ i] makes the text italic, while [ u] is for underline.

The next ones are [ img] and [url ]
- [img] is for pictures, the url can be off-site or locally. You can use relative paths.
- [url ] has two versions: [url ] and [ url= ].

Simple link:
If you wish to make simple link then type: [url ]http://roguey.co.uk[ /url],

Advance link:
however if you want to make advance link then use a equal sign as follows:
[ url=http://roguey.co.uk] Roguey's Site[/ url]

- You can surround a IMG tag with a URL tag, to make the picture click-able.

The next are 'blocking text', which are [ code ] and [ quote ]
- [ code] is for showing code, ie. a script or something from a mod, etc.
- [ quote ] is used for quoting someone or something,

The last one is the [ youtube ] tag,
- You can post youtube video by inserting the id between the tags. When you go to a video in youtube, check the address bar. It should read something like:

5w6R8ryin2w

The ID is the v parameter (ie. v=), so the above case its 5w6R8ryin2w. So put that into your youtube tags and suddenly you have posted a youtube video in your post! If the v parameter contains an & sign, then you will need to remove the text after it, ie.

5w6R8ryin2w&fmt=11

The id is still 5w6R8ryin2w

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