Any text between a [b] and a [/b] will be displayed as bold.
example:
[b]This text is bold[/b]
produces:
This text is bold
Any text between a [i] and a [/i] will be displayed in italics.
example:
[i]This text is in italics[/i]
produces:
This text is in italics
Any text between a [u] and a [/u] will be displayed as underlined.
example:
[u]This text is underlined[/u]
produces:
This text is underlined
Any text between a [c] and a [/c] will be centered in the page.
example:
[c]This text is centered[/c]
produces:
This text is centered
Any text between a [sup] and a [/sup] will be displayed as superscript.
example:
Friday the 13[sup]th[/sup]
produces:
Friday the 13th
Any text between a [sub] and a [/sub] will be displayed as subscript.
example:
H[sub]2[/sub]SO[sub]4[/sub] is the chemical formula for sulphuric acid.
produces:
H2 SO4 is the chemical formula for sulphuric acid.
Any text between a [tt] and a [/tt] will be displayed as monospaced teletype text.
example:
[tt]This text is monospaced[/tt]
produces:
This text is monospaced
Placing a valid URL for an image stored on a web server that allows external linking inside [img] and [/img] tags will insert an image.
example:
[img]http://supra.planetthinktanks2.com/archives/images/pics/ banners/88x31a.jpg[/img]
produces:
This takes the following format: [url=the web site address ]A title for the link [/url]
example:
[url=http://supra.planetthinktanks2.com]PlanetThinkTanks [/url]
produces:
Any text between a [quote] and a [/quote] will be displayed as within a box and is used to indicate part of a previous comment you are referring to or quoting.
example:
[quote]some portion of text copied from a previous comment[/quote]
produces:
some portion of text copied from a previous comment
You can of course combine tags so long as they are closed in the reverse order to which they were opened.
example:
[b]All this text is in [u]bold[/u], but [i]this bit is also italicised[/i][/b]
produces:
All this text is in bold , but this bit is also italicised
You can also enclose an image inside [url] tags to use an image instead of a textual link.
example:
[url=http://supra.planetthinktanks2.com][img]http://www. planetthinktanks.com/images/pics/banners/88x31a.jpg [/img][/url]
produces: