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BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. [citation needed] The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ([and ]) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML.
Lightweight markup languages can be categorized by their tag types. Like HTML (<b>bold</b>), some languages use named elements that share a common format for start and end tags (e.g. BBCode [b]bold[/b]), whereas proper lightweight markup languages are restricted to ASCII-only punctuation marks and other non-letter symbols for tags, but some also mix both styles (e.g. Textile bq.
When the post is viewed, the code is rendered to HTML and will appear as: This is clever text. Many forum packages offer a way to create Custom BBCodes, or BBcodes that are not built into the package, where the administrator of the board can create complex BBCodes to allow the use of JavaScript or iframe functions in posts, for example ...
In HTML and XML, a numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#xhhhh;. or &#nnnn; where the x must be lowercase in XML documents, hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form, and nnnn is the code point in decimal form.
The codes enclosed in angle-brackets <like this> are markup instructions (known as tags), while the text between these instructions is the actual text of the document. The codes h1 , p , and em are examples of semantic markup, in that they describe the intended purpose or the meaning of the text they include.
The HTML examples given should be i and b or em and strong. MrHen. 21:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC) I agree as elements like b are not XHTML but obsolete HTML elements. It would also be interesting to compare BBCode both to HTML and XHTML as BBCode is mostly based on obsolete HTML elements. --Goa103 16:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
This template can be used to quickly create a userbox for display on a user's user page without having to know HTML or Wikitable syntax. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Body class bodyclass Adds an HTML class attribute to the entire template's HTML table, to allow for styling, emission of ...
This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.