HOW TO: Our Custom BBCode

[Sci]

This is a guide to the forum's custom BBC. In this guide "fish cakes smell like fish" is used as filler text, it would be replaced with the text you want the BBC to affect. Currently the guide only contains BBC available for click to add, the rest will be added later.

Requests for functions and questions about the BBCs also go in this thread.

ARVYRE
A short & simple way of posting your Arvyre pets, place the id# between the tags and your pet will be displayed. The id# is the number at the end of the feed link. http://www.arvyre.com/levelup.php?id=123 <- the id#
Example:

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Code: Select all [ARVYRE]123[/ARVYRE]

*The above pet was chosen at random and its use is not intended to benefit the owner.

ARVYREIO
A variant of the ARVYRE tag. When used only the image will be posted, useful for topics like "Favorites" and "Uglies". Place the id# between the tags. http://www.arvyre.com/levelup.php?id=123 <- the id#
Example:

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Code: Select all [ARVYREIO]123[/ARVYREIO]

*The above pet was chosen at random and its use is not intended to benefit the owner.

BG=
Creates a section of post with a customizable background color.
Your desired color goes between the "=" and the "]".
Both color names and hexadecimal numbers are accepted.
Example:

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Code: Select all [BG=#DD0000]fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish[/BG]	fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish

BGHOVER=
Creates an area that the background will change to a color of your choice when someone brings their cursor over it.

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Code: Select all [BGHOVER=#FF0055]fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish[/BGHOVER]	fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish

BORDER=
Creates a section of post with a customizable border around it.
You can choose the thickness of the border and the color.
You must specify a color and a thickness and do so in that order for this BBC to function

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Code: Select all [BORDER=#00DD00/3]fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish[/BORDER]	fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish

CENTER
Creates a section of post where the text and images will be centered.

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Code: Select all [CENTER]fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish[/CENTER]	fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish

FONT=
Allows you to change the font of text. Font name goes after the "=".

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Code: Select all [FONT=System]fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish[/FONT]	fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish

S
Strikes out text.

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Code: Select all [S]fish cakes smell like fish[/S]	fish cakes smell like fish

Scroll
Creates a box with a max height of 250 pixels, if the content is taller or wider than the box it will scroll.

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Code: Select all [SCROLL]fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish[/SCROLL]

Scrollbox fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish cakes smell like fish

*the code part contains much fewer repetitions of the the filler text to save room.

SPOILER
The content of this tag will be hidden until the button is clicked. If you'd like to include a title on your spoiler add "=title here" after the word spoiler in the first tag

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Code: Select all [SPOILER]fish cakes smell like fish[/SPOILER]	Spoiler fish cakes smell like fish

Tables.

You may have noticed while reading this thread that the forums have tables. You may even be asking "Why aren't the tables up with the buttons for the other BBC?" This is because if the tables tags are improperly used they will distort the layout of the post they are in. You need to have read the following information or know how to write a basic html tale to use the table bbc properly.

Here's the basics of it:
the [table] tag starts it off, then the [tr] tag comes next then the [td]
[table]this is the most important part of the table, sets of [tr] or [td] tags posted without the table tag around them would screw up the layout of the post they were put in and I'd have to hide the text of the post.
[tr] tags define rows "[tr] text [/tr]" would be one row on a table and is also required for the code to function properly
[td] defines columns and goes inside the [tr] tags.
*NOTE: The tags in the above paragraph were able to be posted without messing up the layout because they are broken by the text inside the brackets being colored red.

Example table:

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[table][tr][td][img]http://r.undev.org/?r=216505.png[/img][/td][td]Filler Text
Filler Text
Filler Text
Filler Text
Filler Text[/td][/tr][/table]


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Filler Text Filler Text Filler Text Filler Text Filler Text

*NOTE:The table instructions were not formated in the same way as the rest because you cannot nest any BBC with itself in PhpBB except QUOTE.

There are a couple variants of the table tags which can replace their originals to give you more formatting options.
The variants are: -to be added-

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^ignore that line of text, you see nothing...
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[silverwolf42]

Great additions to the board's BBC! Thanks!

[Sci]

Our newest BBC is BGHOVER, it creates an area with a transparent background that will change to the color of your choice when someone hovers their mouse over it. It's only been tested in firefox and ie.

(put your cursor over this to see it in action)

I'll add it to the guide later.

Edit: well there's a problem with the new BBC, if more than one of them are used on used on a page the color of the one lowest on the page is applied to all, I'm working on a fix.

Edit #2: works now, had to change from CSS to javascript (of which I know nothing) to get it to work properly.

[TokinoMukou]

Our newest BBC is BGHOVER, it creates an area with a transparent background that will change to the color of your choice when someone hovers their mouse over it. It's only been tested in firefox and ie.

(put your cursor over this to see it in action)

I'll add it to the guide later.

Edit: well there's a problem with the new BBC, if more than one of them are used on used on a page the color of the one lowest on the page is applied to all, I'm working on a fix.

Edit #2: works now, had to change from CSS to javascript (of which I know nothing) to get it to work properly.

AUGH, MY EYESSSS~~~ *sizzle, burn*

Thanks for adding these features!

[Sci]

*points and laughs at Toki's burned eyes*

Added another one, TIP=, adds a tool tip of your choice to content.

Tested in FF and IE.

[Sci]

Added an expand option to the scrollbox. It's ugly right now but it works and I will try and pretty it up later. It's only been tested in firefox and you have to have javascript enabled for it to work. I'm thinking about making it a separate bbc, opinions?

Also making this thread the official place to discuss the BBC and make requests.

[Sen]

Whoa, didn't even know some of these things existed...

I've nothing to suggest - I'm quite the happy camper with simple things, like colored text. Though, making it so that a certain BBCode format was applied to all posts without having to type in the code every single time would be nice.

[Sci]

What you want is not within my skills, it would take php or something to code and idk any php and it's not something I could just do trial and error till I got it right like javascript is. Dunno if you saw this post or not (assuming you didn't since you didn't reply to it) but it's the best I can offer.

"3. Forum Posting Setting"
I probably would if I could but it's not within my skills to do it, best I can offer is to make sure you know of the full editor option for posting since I get the feeling you're using the quick reply option. Click this button to go to it . Once there you can click the button "font colour" to bring up a color picker.

[Sen]

Oh, alright then. I already know how to use both post settings, but thanks.