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Bbcode

A modified form of UBB has been added to the system in several places including Press Releases, Comments, the PM System, Blog Notes, and the Forums. A breakdown of this code and it's uses follows.

Text Manipulation

There are now many different ways to manipulate text. Items can be bold, italicized, underlined, struck through, and colored. The great thing about text manipulation tags are that they can be used together in groups to create text with several different formats.

Italics, underline, and strikethrough all use identical tag structures:

[i]Italics[/i]
[u]Underline[/u]
[s]Strikethrough[/s]

Bold uses this structure as well, but also has a second way of being used:

[b]Bold Markup 1[/b]
[bold]Bold Markup 2[/bold]

Colored text will be done one of two ways; either you will use basic colors: red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange, or you will specify a customized color utilizing it's appropriate html reference number such as BlogShares Blue or BlogShares Green.

[color=red]red[/color]
[color=green]green[/color]
[color=blue]blue[/color]
[color=yellow]yellow[/color]
[color=purple]purple[/color]
[color=orange]orange[/color]
[color=#424d7b]BlogShares Blue[/color]
[color=#527142]BlogShares Green[/color]

Links

There are two different ways to create document links. The first way allows you to specify hyperlinked text, the second merely makes the url a hyperlink itself:

Link Type 1

[url=http://www.blogshares.com]BlogShares[/url]

Link Type 2

[url]http://www.blogshares.com[/url]

Image Links

You can also add an image to items now, making the presentation much more effective. This is simply done with an opening and closing img tag in a similar way to the url tags.

[img]http://www.blogshares.com/images/no-cp.gif[/img]

Lists

There are two different types of lists: Ordered, which appends a numerical order to items in the list, and Unordered which simply appends a bullet to the item.

Unordered Lists'

There are two ways of accomplishing an unordered listing type (and no, the type of bullet used cannot be customized). One way uses the list tag, the other uses a more familiar html type tag, ul. Note that besides the opening tag, you must have the accompanying closing tag at the end of the list. You must also use the li tag or astersk (*) inside of brackets to set off each list item.

[list]
 [li]Item 1
 [li]Item 2
[/list]

[ul]
 [li]Item 1
 [li]Item 2
[/ul]

Ordered Lists

This will list items numerically, and has no real limit. The code is the same as above with the exception of using only one type of tag, ol.

[ol]
 [li]Item 1
 [li]Item 2
[/ol]

Text Alignment

Some text alignment options have also been added as outlined below:

[right]Aligned to the right[/right]
[center]Aligned to the center[/center]
[left]Aligned to the left[/left]

Headers and Separators

There are two different types of headers. These are used to set a title off from the rest of the page. There is also one separator.

[h1]Header Style 1[/h1]
[h2]Header Style 2[/h2]