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Quick BBCode Tutorial

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BBCode allows you do special formatting of your posts. BBCode are special tags that are enclosed in square brackets ([]). All tags must have a starting tag and an ending tag. The ending tag is the same as the starting tag with a slash (/) in it.

I will give the actual BBCode examples below, but what will show up will be in the next post.

1. How to quote

When you want to quote someone, surround the text you want to quote with the [quote] code. The easy way to do this is to hit the Quote button on the post that you want to reply to. It will then automatically insert a [quote] tag at the beginning and a [/quote] tag at the end.

Examples:
[quote]
This is a quoted text.
[/quote]

To specify who you are quoting, add the person's name inside the quote tag.
[quote="Eve"]
I am Eve.
[/quote]

To do nested quotes, make sure tags are balanced. The inner quotes tags should be within the outer quote tags.
[quote="Adam"]
[quote="Eve"]
I am Eve.
[/quote] <-- ends Eve's quote
Madam, I'm Adam.
[/quote] <-- ends Adam's quote

You can have quite complex nested quotes.
[quote]
[quote="Adam"]
[quote="Eve"]
I am Eve.
[/quote]
Madam, I'm Adam.
[/quote]
[quote="Eve"]
I'm a Madam Adam, am I?
[/quote]
[quote="Adam"]
Even in Eden I win Eden in Eve.
[/quote]
[/quote]

2. How to link

If you want to generate a link, surround your text with the [url] tag.

Example:
[url=http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4]Welcome to DebatingChristianity.com[/url]

If you want to link to a specific post, go to that post and click on the image on the top left that looks like a piece of paper. That will then give you the URL for that post.

3. How to display an image

To display an image, surround the URL of the image with the [img] tag.

Example:
[img]http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/i ... /logo1.gif[/img]

4. How to bold

To bold something, surround the text with the [b] tag:

Example:
[b]Hello world[/b]

When you use BBCode, make sure that you uncheck the "Disable BBCode in this post" to activate BBCode.

Also, it is a good idea to first preview the post to make sure all BBCode tags are working.

For a more complete tutorial on BBCode, phpBB has a good tutorial:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/faq.php?mode=bbcode
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1. How to quote

Examples:
This is a quoted text.
Eve wrote: I am Eve.
Adam wrote:
Eve wrote: I am Eve.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Adam wrote:
Eve wrote: I am Eve.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Eve wrote: I'm a Madam Adam, am I?
Adam wrote: Even in Eden I win Eden in Eve.
2. How to link

Example:
Welcome to DebatingChristianity.com

3. How to display an image

Example:
Image

4. How to bold

Example:
Hello world

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