BBCode

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On this page BBCodes that people want explained will be explained

BBCode stands for Bulletin Board Code and basically is a very simplified version of HTML that is used to format the posts on most bulletin boards, most tags are easy to use but some are a it trickier, those are the ones that will be explained here. I you want any tags explained add them to the list below (on a new line with a * in front of it)

Explanations

Quote

A lot of people make their quotes themselves by putting the [quote][/quote] tags around it. No problem with that but it's easier for everyone if people also put the names in the quote. So here a small explanation how to do that (it's not hard).

The thing to do is to do it like this (using in this explanation Dennis as the person that's quoted. Simply replace Dennis with the person you're quoting but that's kind of obvious): [quote=Dennis]The quote as usual[/quote] That way you'll get the quote box with reference who said it like you see when quote with the quote button.

If you want to do it really nice you can also do that little arrow that you see normally. For that you need to know the postnumber first. That's not the number that you see in the top right of the post!. To find that out hover your mouse over the Quote button. Then look to the bottom of your screen, you should be able to see a URL (web address) that looks something like http://www.adisc.org/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=15484. That P=15484 is what you're interested in. The number you see after P= is the postnumber.

Now including postnumber the quote tag looks like this: [quote=Dennis;15484]The quote as usual[/quote] So [quote=<Username>;<Postnumber>] where you replace <Username> with the Username of the quoted and <Postnumber> with the postnumber of the quoted post.

NOTE:

I didn't look at what post 15484 is nor if there even is a Dennis on the forum. If there is it's totally coincidental. The same goes to whatever is in post 15484.

Noparse

Noparse is a useful tag if you don't want the board to do anything with your text (parse links, parse tags or display smileys) All you have to do is wrap [noparse] and [/noparse] around the piece that you want not to be parsed.