Toast's BBCode Guide

Hi there,
If you don't play KaW, you probably have no idea who I am. That's fine though, I have no idea who you are either then.
Anywho.
Jack begged me to post my bbcode guide on these forums, so I, being the completely innocent, loving, caring player I am (/sarcasm), decided to fulfill his desire.
Here ya go:

BBCode Guide
Table of Contents

1. Size
2. Color
   • By word
   • By hex code
3. Bold
4. Italics
5. Underlining
6. Combining bbcode
7. Quoting
8. Links
9. Smilies
10. Pictures
11. Lists
    • Normal list
    • Number list
    • Letter list
    • Roman numeral list

SIZE
Size is very simple.

Code:

 [size=200] biggest text [/size]
[size=20] smallest text [/size]
[size=100] normal sized text [/size]

The number inside the first brackets may be any number 20-200. Do NOT replace "size" in the second brackets with the number you put.

COLOR
Color is simple in essence, but seems to be what confuses people the most.

Code:

 [color=red] red text here [/color]
[color=blue] blue text here [/color]
[color=green] green text here [/color]

Etc.
The color name in the first brackets can be many colors, but remember to make whichever you use ALL ONE WORD (no spaces, even if it's two words). Rather than using

Code:

 [color=dark green] normal black text with a failcode around it [/color] 

You would use

Code:

 [color=darkgreen] dark green text [/color] 

You can also use a combination of letters and numbers (called hex code) instead of color names, and there is a list of them here. These can be used like

Code:

 [color=#008000] darkish green text here [/color] 

with any hex code replacing 008000.

In order to get rainbow text, go to this link and follow the instructions.

BOLD
This one and the next two are simple to use. To make bold text it's simply

Code:

 [b] bold text here [/b] 

ITALICS
Italics are like bold, very simple:

Code:

 [i] Italicized text here [/i] 

UNDERLINED
To complete the trio, you have underlined:

Code:

 [u] underlined text [/u] 

Note: to combine bbcodes--mainly the 5 above--order the second bracket for each pair to be opposite the third.

Code:

 [size=170] [color=red] [u] [i] [b] big, red, underlined, italicized, bold text [/b] [/i] [/u] [/color] [/size] 

See how the [/] are in the opposite order as the []? Same for bbcodes within bbcodes:

Code:

 [size=150] [u] big underlined text [/u] big text [/size] normal text 

Quoting is what people mess up the most.

Code:

 [quote] quote with no name attached [/quote] 
[quote="ThisNameAppears"] quote with a "name wrote..." at top [/quote] 

These appear as,

And

The common mistake people making when quoting is forgetting the quotation marks. It will NOT work if you do not put quotation marks around the name.
Note: you CAN put spaces in the quotation marks:

Code:

 [quote="look a space"] there's spaces in the quote marks [/quote] 

Appears as

LINKS
To make links appear as another word (albeit blue and underlined):

Code:

 [URL=www.google.com] link to google [/URL] 

Appears as
link to google
Make sure your link within the first brackets is the correct link.
Any link that works without bbcode works within it too.

SMILIES
The numbers next to these examples correspond to the ones below:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. :shock: 7. :? 8. 9.** :lol: 10. :x
11. 12. 13. :cry: 14. :evil: 15. :twisted:
16.** :roll: 17. :!: 18. :?: 19. :idea: 20. :arrow:
21.*** :| 22. :mrgreen: 23. :geek: 24. :ugeek:

Code:

 1. :D 2. :) 3. ;) 4. :( 5. :o 6. :shock: 7. :? 8. 8-) 9.** :lol: 10. :x 11. :P 12. :oops: 13. :cry: 14. :evil: 15. :twisted: 16.** :roll: 17. :!: 18. :?: 19. :idea: 20. :arrow: 21.*** :| 22. :mrgreen: 23. :geek: 24. :ugeek: 

** - learn these especially, as they are very useful on forums.
*** - please note that it is NOT a lowercase L or uppercase i. It is that little thing under the symbols keyboard on iDevice (under the "123" button, on that keyboard under the "# =" button in place of the shift key. It is under the colon [:]). On pc keyboard it is under backspace, and looks like two separate lines with a space in the middle ( like "--" rotated 90 degrees, but shows up like | still).

PICTURES
Though technically the simplest method isn't a bbcode, I'll tell how to post pictures here anyways.

1. Download PhotoBucket from the AppStore
2. Make a PhotoBucket account
3. Go to "upload media" and select the picture you want
4. Go to albums
5. Click on the picture you uploaded, then the little "i" in the bottom right corner
6. Copy the "IMG" code by tapping on it
7. Paste this code to your post. It shows up as a link while typing, but shows as a picture once posted.

Example:
This is the screenshot I took of this picture from the Pictures thing on my iPod as it appeared there:

This is the actual image:

Use the free Photoshop app to crop pictures down from the full screenshot.

LISTS
Lists are pretty much the most annoying bbcode to type. Why? See below...

Code:

 [list] [*] list item one  [*] list item two  [*] list item three  [*] list item four  [/list] 

The above makes

• list item one
• list item two
• list item three
• list item four

Unless you have it in clipboard so you can paste it, yes you DO have to type "[*]" and "" to separate items.
More lists:

Code:

 [list=1] to make a list with numbers [/list]
[list=a] to make a list with letters [/list] 
[list=I] to make a list with roman numerals [/list] 

The same [*] are used for all lists.


Jack, I believe you owe me one now. hehe.
Jk.
Maybe.

~Toast

 

Reserved.

 

I'm underage.
Shhh don't tell then 17 age limit

 

Piece*
pal meh the other stuff 

 

Can you even hit me? lol

 

Case in point.

 

Forums are so quiet on pimd lol

 

I don't like these forums as much, actually. Too hard to navigate for me.

Plus they're filled with stuff I consider crap >.> shhh I didn't say that.

 

I was here last night lol. Sooo dead. I'm used to the hyper-active KaW forums.