BBCode
BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998.[1] The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ([ and ]) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML.[citation needed ]
Tags
[edit ]| Example in HTML/CSS | BBCode | Output |
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<b>bolded text</b>[2] ,<strong>bolded text</strong> or<span style="font-weight: bold;">bolded text</span>
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[b]bolded text[/b]
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bolded text |
<i>italicized text</i>,<em>italicized text</em> or<span style="font-style: italic;">italicized text</span>
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[i]italicized text[/i]
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italicized text |
<ins>underlined text</ins> or<span style="text-decoration: underline;">underlined text</span>
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[u]underlined text[/u]
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underlined text |
<del>strikethrough text</del> or<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">strikethrough text</span>
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[s]strikethrough text[/s]
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org">https://en.wikipedia.org</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org">English Wikipedia</a>
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[url]https://en.wikipedia.org[/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org]English Wikipedia[/url]
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https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia |
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png" alt="This is just an example" />
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[img alt="This is just an example" ]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png[/img]
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<img src="Smileys/Face-smile.svg" alt=":-)">
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:) or [:-)]This would be another way to use the [img]url_img[/img] and must be pre-configured by the forum administrator.(This and other emoticons, depending on the variant. Most BBCodes do not enclose emoticons in square brackets, leading to frequent accidental usage.) |
:-) (Specific image and size vary.) |
<blockquote><p>quoted text</p></blockquote>(Usually implemented in more advanced ways.) |
[quote]quoted text[/quote][quote="author"]quoted text[/quote](including optional author)
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Using a Wikipedia template:
— author |
<pre>monospaced text</pre>
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[code]monospaced text[/code]
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monospaced text
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<span style="font-size:30px">Large Text</span> or<span style="font-size:85%">Smaller Text</span>
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[style size="30px"]Large Text[/style][style size="85"]Smaller Text[/style](The unit of measurement varies with each BBCode variant and could represent pixels, points, or relative HTML sizes.) |
Large Text Smaller Text |
<span style="color:fuchsia;">Text in fuchsia</span> or<span style="color:#FF00FF;">Text in fuchsia</span>
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[style color="fuchsia"]Text in fuchsia[/style] or[style color=#FF00FF]Text in fuchsia[/style] or[color=#FF00FF]Text in fuchsia[/color](Both HTML color names and hexadecimal color values are generally supported, although on some boards, you must omit the # from selecting a hexadecimal color.)
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Text in fuchsia |
<ul> <li>Entry A</li> <li>Entry B</li> </ul> <ol> <li>Entry 1</li> <li>Entry 2</li> </ol> |
[list] [*]Entry A [*]Entry B [/list] [list=1] [*]Entry 1 [*]Entry 2 [/list] Some message boards do not need the square brackets around the markers.[3] (Many variants for |
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<table> <tr> <td>table cell 1</td> <td>table cell 2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>table cell 3</td> <td>table cell 4</td> </tr> </table> |
[table] [tr] [td]table cell 1[/td] [td]table cell 2[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]table cell 3[/td] [td]table cell 4[/td] [/tr] [/table] (Some variants for |
table cell 1
table cell 2
table cell 3
table cell 4
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Implementation
[edit ]BBCode is typically implemented by applying a series of regular expression string-replace operations upon the input. Because regular expressions are limited in analyzing the structure of text input, this has the artifact that any non-hierarchical BBCode input will be transformed into invalid non-hierarchical HTML without error.[citation needed ]
Applying traditional parsing techniques is made difficult by ambiguities in the markup, such as in [quote=[b]text[/b][/quote], where the input can either be interpreted as "text" quoted from someone called [b, or the bolded text "text" surrounded by [quote= and [/quote], i.e. [quote=text[/quote].
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "BBCode history". www.bbcode.org. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "HTML Text Formatting". W3Schools. Retrieved 2021年05月01日.
- ^ e.g. BOINC Project Forums et al.
- ^ "BBCode tags reference". www.bbcode.org. Retrieved 12 January 2022.