How to Create Links and Edit Text for Forums

Aug, 29, 2011, by member Cindy Amato

How to Create Links and Edit Text for Forums

Hi. Forums typically use "UBB" code to create links, and to edit text (making text bold and italics.) I found this to be easily forgettable, and so I've created a little cheat sheet on how to do this.

Create a Link:

To make a url link in your forum post, use the [url] tag before the url link and the [/url] tag at the end of it. It turns the url link that you have in between the tags into a clickable link.

URL tag: [url]
Closing URL tag: [/url]

Here's what you would use to make a link to Bookerville's home page as an example:

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

Putting this in the text of your post would result in a clickable link to the Bookerville home page, like this:

    http:www.bookerville.com

Bold:

To make text Bold, put a "Bold" tag before the text that you want bolded, and put a "Closing Bold" tag at the end.

Bold tag: [b]
Closing Bold tag: [/b]

Italics

To make text Italics, put an "Italics" tag before the word, and put a "Closing Italics" tag at the end.

Italics tag: [i]
Closing Italics tag: [/i]

Thoroughly confused? Let me know: Comment here or email me: cindy@bookerville.com

Cindy

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