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The following tags change the appearance of text:

[b]Bold text[/b] produces Bold text
[u]Underlined text[/u] produces Underlined text
[i]Italic text[/i] produces Italic text
[color=#FF0000]Red text[/color] produces Red text
[color=blue]Blue text[/color] produces Blue text
[s]Strikethrough[/s] produces Strikethrough
[h]Highlight[/h] produces Highlight
[sub]Subscript[/sub] produces _Subscript
[sup]Superscript[/sup] produces ^Superscript

You can create lists; both numbered and bulleted.

Chocolate Brownies Recipe in a [b]unordered[/b] list:
[list]
[*] 175 grams / 6 oz of butter
[*] 1 cup of chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate
[*] 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
[*] 1 tablespoon of instant coffee powder (optional)]
[*] 3 eggs
[*] 1 cup of white sugar
[*] 1[sup]1/4[/sup] cups of flour
[*] 1/2 cup of roughly chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
[*] 1/2 cup of raisins (optional)
[*] Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F or gas mark 4.
[/list]

produces :

Chocolate Brownies Recipe in a unordered list:

• 175 grams / 6 oz of butter
• 1 cup of chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 1 tablespoon of instant coffee powder (optional)
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of white sugar
• 1^1/4 cups of flour
• 1/2 cup of roughly chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
• 1/2 cup of raisins (optional)
• Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F or gas mark 4.

Chocolate Brownies Recipe in a [b]numbered[/b] list:
[list]
[#] 175 grams / 6 oz of butter
[#] 1 cup of chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate
[#] 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
[#] 1 tablespoon of instant coffee powder (optional)]
[#] 3 eggs
[#] 1 cup of white sugar
[#] 1[sup]1/4[/sup] cups of flour
[#] 1/2 cup of roughly chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
[#] 1/2 cup of raisins (optional)
[#] Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F or gas mark 4.
[/list]

produces :

Chocolate Brownies Recipe in a unordered list:

• 175 grams / 6 oz of butter
• 1 cup of chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 1 tablespoon of instant coffee powder (optional)
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of white sugar
• 1^1/4 cups of flour
• 1/2 cup of roughly chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
• 1/2 cup of raisins (optional)
• Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F or gas mark 4.

You can create links to other documents or to e-mail addresses using the following tags:

[url=https://forums.bf2s.com/]BF2S Forums[/url] produces BF2S Forums
[url]https://forums.bf2s.com/[/url] produces https://forums.bf2s.com/
[email]myname@mydomain.com[/email] produces myname@mydomain.com
[email=myname@mydomain.com]My e-mail address[/email] produces My e-mail address

If you want to display an image you can use the img tag.

[img]https://bf2s.com/logo.png[/img] produces

If you want to quote someone, you should use the quote tag.

    [quote=James]This is the text i want to quote.[/quote]

produces a quote box like this:

If you don't want to quote anyone in particular, you can use the quote tag without specifying a name.

    [quote]This is the text i want to quote.[/quote]

produces a quote box like this:

When displaying source code you should make sure that you use the code tag. Text displayed with the code tag will use a monospaced font and will not be affected by other tags.

    [code]This is some code.[/code]

produces a code box like this:

This is some code.

[cd]date string[/cd]

Using the above code will generate and inplace countdown text string. When the date reaches zero, the text will read "date reached".

Dates should be formatted in accordance with RFC 2822. Unless you are a complete nerd, here's what that sort of means:

Day(numeral) Month(FullText) Year(4 Digit Numeral) Hour(24 format):Minute(with leading zero):Seconds(leading zeros) Timezone(3 letter)

Examples:
21 August 2007 12:00:00 PST
3 May 2020 16:30:10 GMT
25 December 20016 00:00:00 EST

BBCode can be nested to create more advanced formatting. For example:

    [b][u]Bold, underlined text[/u][/b] produces Bold, underlined text