A Guide to BBCode on ATS

Bumping this 'cause it's awesome and I use it all the time.

at some point in time i will have to sit and play with the bbcode , when that will be?? till then, just make do with the same old same old.

Just testing some charachters,

u2660 ♠ ♪
⚈ ☺


♫ ( insert text here) ♫

Just copy and paste the above line and you will get the effect of the characters without having to type the code.

Originally posted by loam
Hyperlink to another Webpage

Produces: This is the hyperlink title you chose.

Normally this BBCode works just fine for me.

But I'm trying to compose a post on a thread, and for some reason, the system is not producing what I've typed. When I look at the code I typed, I see the normal "[/url]" but when I see the output, the system is inserting a space between the "r" and "l;" thus, my BBCode is not working.

Any ideas?

reply to post by Mary Rose


I have seen that happening when there are no spaces on the text and the url is too long. Is that the case?

reply to post by ArMaP


Very interesting! Yes.

But I can re-word my text to be two words.

Thanks!!!

There are several characters in url's that mess up on ATS One of them is a ?. If there is one of those in the url and the url is long it won't show a link

Been happening a lot... I can go through my recent posts and pull some examples

Used to be able to use tiny url as a work around

Dropped by to find a new color for my avy text. Thanks!

Nice job but:

This program is the most difficult and tedious way to change the appearance of your post. It sucks. There are better programs out
there.
I think FCK and TinyMCE are much simpler and quicker.
It sucks.
Did I say it sucks?

sorry

Never have I encountered a thread that is as useful as this one. I would star and flag it every time if I could.

This is a little test and it might as well bump the thread for newer members to read.
Thank you.

files.abovetopsecret.com...

Well that didn't work as planned.

Next try.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/ba35e845c563.gif[/atsimg]

I've tried using bb code to align text and images in my signature, but it doesn't work. Is it supposed to work in one's signature to begin with? Or am I doing something wrong?

reply to post by this_is_who_we_are


Did you check if there are any special thingies left like the apostrophe for example " They will screw it up.

reply to post by this_is_who_we_are


It has worked on your image!

thank you very much for this walk through! a little bit of a challenge for newbies like me, to find, but well worth the journey of exploration!

Originally posted by davespanners
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are

 

It has worked on your image!

It's centered, but not because I used code to center it. I resized it till it ended up "centered". I've tried using the bb code for text in my signature but t doesn't work.

If I use :

(align=center)text(/align) *

the code prints in the signature instead of the code making the text or image centered.

*Of course I used brackets instead of ellipses when actually trying it. The above line of align code is just an example

reply to post by this_is_who_we_are


It looks like the signature area doesn't allow for all the bbcode that the rest of ATS accepts.

If you use the [‍atsimg][‍/atsimg] tags the image will be centred in the signature area, but it looks like that area is only 600 pixels wide.

reply to post by ArMaP


Thank you.
And bump for this very informative thread.
Great work!

Thank you,
This is one of the best mark-up guide I have seen on any forum.
It must have taken you an extraordinary amount of time to include all the text colour code options where most others would have taken the easy road and displayed a simple colour code table.
Yes, I too have bookmarked for later reference

This highly informative thread can use a lil bump.
I found a few answers in here, to questions that I have had for awhile.
Thx Loam.


P.S. .Gif is one thing I was looking for and couldn't find, if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.