
BBCode
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BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ([ and ]) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML.
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It is catalogued under the topic Lightweight markup languages.
Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- file format
- Official website
- php.net/manual/en/book.bbcode.php
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- operating system
- cross-platform
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- text/x-bbcode
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Tags
- Implementation
- See also
- References
- External links
BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ([ and ]) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML.
==Tags== {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; text-align:left;" ! style="width:40%;" | Example in HTML/CSS ! style="width:40%;" | BBCode ! style="width:20%;" | Output |- | bolded text or bolded text | [b]bolded text[/b] | bolded text |- | italicized text or italicized text | [i]italicized text[/i] | italicized text |- | underlined text or underlined text | [u]underlined text[/u] | |- | strikethrough text or strikethrough text or strikethrough text | [s]strikethrough text[/s] | strikethrough text |- | https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia | [url]https://en.wikipedia.org[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org]English Wikipedia[/url] | https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia |- | | [img alt="Example image" ]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png[/img] | 172px|link=|alt=Example image |- | | :) or [:-)] This would be another way to use the [img]url_img[/img] and must be pre-configured by the forum administrator.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BBCode” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.