Bulletin Board Code Guide

[Flying_pig]

This is a guide I made a while back for another forum and since it is useful I made a adaption for the X-Pilot Forum (ie changing the examples to X-Plane related stuff)
Anyways here it is

Introduction to BB code

First off, as far as I know BBC code is not related to the TV channel. Now what is BBC code? Simply put it stands for Bulletin Board Code. This coding language is very easy to use and learn so this shouldn't take to long. 
 
How to add a spoiler
Simply type the following

[spoiler](text)[/spoiler]

and you can achieve this

(text)

however there is another way to do this

[acronym="Hidden text"]HT[/acronym]

just hold your cursor above the highlighted area and it will tell you what the acronym means
HT

How to add in videos and pictures
this one is fairly simply. The first way to add a photo is simply to use the add photo button in the editor and copy in the image URL obtained by right clicking on the image and hitting copy image url. the second way is to type in the following

[img=http://www.x-plane.com/wp/wp-content/gallery/week2/747_nose_up.jpg]

this is the result

 
the third way to add a image is by far the easiest and fastest. Simply right click on the image and click "copy image" then come back and hit "CTRL+V" and your image will automatically be inserted into the post (this does not work with status updates).
 
 
To add in a video go to the video you want to add in and right click on it and hit "copy video url" youtube will then either display a popup with the url (in which case hit "CTRL+C") or will automatically copy the URL. then come back here and type the following 

[media][video url][/media]

this should be the result

 


How to add links
the easiest way to add a link is simply to copy/paste a URL directly into the post and it will get auto formatted.
know there is some other cool stuff you can do to make your posts look better.
the first is attaching a url to text
to do this take the text you want to add the link to then highlight it by holding shift and using the arrow keys or by holding down the mouse and dragging it over them. Then hit "CTRL+L" next simply copy the URL you want to link to into the box in the pop up and hit "ENTER" 
here is the actual code involved

[url=http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/home/]Test Link[/url]

result
Test Link

How to add in example code
simply type the following
[c.ode] (minus period)

bla bla bla

[/.code] (minus period)

this should be the result

bla bla bla

Edited July 7, 2014 by Flying_pig