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But enjoy anyway 
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Chap1
Using tags.

You can use tags by attaching certain characters in brackets around your words.
So far I've been using the bold tag, which looks like this;

[b]bold[/b]

You can use i tags for italics.

[i]italics[/i]

And u tags for underlines.

[u]underline[/u]

Those are the three most simple BBCode tags.

Now that you're familiar with tags, let's try color tags.

Color tags are produced when you type in color= and then the name of your color.

[color=red]Red[/color]

Will produce Red text.
You can also use raw numbers so long as you know the color that will occur.

[color=#FF0000]Red[/color]

And you will still get Red text.

If you want your text to be invisible, try transparent or gainsboro colors.

Use [color=transparent]transparent[/color] or [color=gainsboro]gainsboro[/color] colors to make your text invisible.

Makes;

Use transparent or gainsboro colors to make your text invisible.

However, if you or someone else quotes your gainsboro text, it becomes visible.

Use transparent or gainsboro colors to make your text invisible.

But transparent text stays invisible.

To see invisible text, highlight the area you think or know it is in. Usually you can tell if someone is using invisible text if their post has an extra space at the bottom or if there is a sudden break in their text.

But remember, transparent tags only work on Internet Browsers other than Internet Explorer!

Those are all text-altering tags.

Chap2
Using links

I set the link above to go to my My Stuff page. Once you learn how to use links, you can create links to many many websites.

There are two types of links; and two ways to use those two types. That may be a little confusing now, but soon you'll be able to agree with that statement.

I'll start with the basic link.

http://scratch.mit.edu/users/JeanTheFox
This will give you the link to the site and show you the title as well.

[url]http://scratch.mit.edu/users/JeanTheFox[/url]

Is what I used.

Now, let's say you are typing a paragraph, and want to squeeze your link into it without ruining the whole thing with a big fat address. What you can do is use the same url tags, but changed a little bit.

[url=http://scratch.mit.edu/users/JeanTheFox]My Stuff Page[/url]

This will result in a link to my My Stuff Page.
But be careful; sometimes you may end up with this:

[url=]http://scratch.mit.edu/users/JeanTheFoxMy Stuff Page[/url]

Do you see how the bracket was moved next to the equal sign? This will cause a link that can't take you anywhere because it has no address!
http://scratch.mit.edu/users/JeanTheFoxMy Stuff Page
See?

Now to the second kind of link: an e-mail link.

The Scratch Team does not allow your e-mail to be shared on the site. It never ends well; so please don't put your e-mail out there. The Scratch Team or moderators will remove it, so you might as well not put it there in the first place; so if your going to use this, use the Scratch Team's Help e-mail.

E-mail tabs are the same as url tags;

[email]help@scratch.mit.edu[/email]

Gives you help@scratch.mit.edu.

And just like url tags, you can use an equal sign.

[email=help@scratch.mit.edu]Contact Us here![/email]

Makes: Contact Us here!

And just to sum this up, I will include img (image) tags. Using these will produce an image.

[img]http://www.punbb.org/img/small_logo.png[/img]

This will result in

NOTE: You need to upload your photo to www.tinypic.com or www.photoshack.com before you can get the image address to put the tags on.

If you want to make an image that links to another page, use this;

[url=http://scratch.mit.edu/users/JeanTheFox][img]http://www.punbb.org/img/small_logo.png[/img][/url]

So you can make a click-able image, like this;



Chap3
Quoting and code quoting.

Using quotes and using code quoting may look very similar, but are very different.

To use quotes, use quote tags.

[quote]This is a quote.[/quote]

Will give you:

This is a quote.

Although sometimes, you may want to list the name of the person who said the words you want to quote. In that case, add an equal sign;

[quote=JeanTheFox]This is a quote.[/quote]

That way, you get this;

JeanTheFox wrote:

This is a quote.

Another way you can get the 'equal sign' quote is to click the Quote at the bottom right of a post.

For a trick with quoting, say you want to make a list; like in the Requests Forum, when you want to make a waiting list, try this;

Waiting List
1. JeanTheFox
2.
3.

[quote][b]Waiting List[/b]
1. JeanTheFox
2.
3.[/quote]

Now on to code quoting. Code quoting is special, because it deactivates all BBCode used inside its tags. I've been using code tags to show you the BBCode for the subjects above.

Unlike quoting, when you use a simple tag with no equal sign, the word Code: will appear rather than a blank beveled section.

Use this to display what kind of BBCode you want.

It looks like ['code'], save the apostrophes.

This is a code.

Chap4
Using Smilies!

Smilies are a fun way to show emotions. They can be used by making text smilies.

I will put a space between the two text symbols to show you what it looks like.
: ) and = ) = 
: | and = | = 
: ( and = ( = 
: o and : O = 
: D and = D = 
; ) = 
: P = 
: / = 
: lol : = 
: cool : = 
: mad : = 
: rolleyes : = 

To turn off smilies, click the 'Turn off Smilies' box.

Chap5
Using blocks.

Blocks are, unfortunately, not of the best quality. While taking screenshots or saving images of scripts are much easier, I think it's still important to know this.

You can use block tags to display images of blocks to answer a question about programming and the like:

[blocks]Put blocks here[/blocks]

Although you can use block tags, you can also use the code of the block you wish to use.

<move( 6 )steps>

<move( 6 )steps>[/blocks]

Is the result. But be careful; if you don't put significant space between the blocks and your words, they may overlap.

The easiest way to use blocks is to click on the block types and blocks at the bottom of your post box.

And remember; if you don't put /blocks at the end of using blocks, even if you didn't put a blocks tag at the beginning, everything after those blocks will be bold-ed. 

Credits
Credit to BBCode in general; great help to forum users everywhere.
Credit to Scratch for having a great community and atmosphere.
And not to sound selfish, but credit to me, JeanTheFox, for making this guide 

For additional help, visit the Scratch Forums BBCode Help.

Last edited by JeanTheFox (2010-11-02 11:30:35)