BBCode Guide

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BB Code Guide

What is BB Code? BBCode (or Bulletin Board Code) is a simple markup language used to format posts. Formatting such as bolding, italicizing or underlining text can be done on Ludus Lake to make posts more readable or content-rich. If there are BBCode options/enhancements that you'd like to see, please create a suggestion here: Currently available BBCode options:
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Strikeout
  • Quote (optionally include quoted username)
  • Link (optionally include link text)
  • Image
  • Header (multiple levels)
  • Center
  • Divider
  • List (unordered)
  • Ordered List
  • Table

Special BBCode

Some BBCode can take optional parameters or have multiple options to use within them. These are listed below.

Lists

A list by default is unordered. Adding list=1 to the opening tag makes the list ordered. Clicking the Ordered List BBCode button will automatically add this parameter.

Headers

A header automatically defaults to a level 2 header. An optional level parameter can be added with a value of 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 to change the header level. The lower the header level, the smaller the text size.

Tables

Tables can make use of the following sub BBCodes:
  • tr - represents a table row.
  • th - represents a table header cell. Should be nested within a tr.
  • td - represents a table data cell. Should be nested within a tr.
For example:
Column Header Cell 1Column Header Cell 2Column Header Cell 3
Column Data Cell 1Column Data Cell 2Column Data Cell 3

Links

When inserting a link, the link URL will automatically default to example.com, and the link text to "link text". If you pre-select some text and then click on the link button, the link text will default to the pre-selected text.

Quote

The quote tag has an optional user parameter for when you'd like to quote a specific user. Adding this parameter will prefix the quote with text indicating as such. For example: Quote without a username:
This is an unattributed quote!
Quote with a username:
LudusBot said:
This is an attributed quote!

Combining BBCode

Some BBCode tags can be nested within others. For example:
This is bold text nested within a center tag.
Wrapping the center tag around the bold tag makes the bolded text centered in the post. Wrapping a link tag around an image tag makes the image linkable.
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