This is part 2 of my BBCode series where I give you an overview of the different BBCodes available to our community and how to use them.

Before reading part 2, I highly suggest reading part 1 of my BBCode series Introduction to BBCode - Basic Text Formatting where I go over what BBCode is and show you some basic examples like Bold, Italics and Underline.

Here in part 2 I will be teaching you how to add even fancier effects to your text with more advanced BBCodes such as color, font sizing and urls.



Color
To change the color of your words you can use the following tags in your message:

In the code above replace COLOR CODE with a hex color value. If you're not familiar with hex color codes check out this handy website: Color-hex.com. Don't worry if you can't remember them though, our site has a handy button above the message area called "font color" that lets you pick a color to use. Next replace EXAMPLE TEXT with the words you want to color. When you post your message, you word or words will be colored.

Example: This text is red



Font Size
To make your words bigger or smaller you can use the following tags in your message:

(Note: Tiny and small text have been disabled due to abuse)

Tiny


Small


Normal


Large


Huge


Examples:

Normal Text
Large Text
Huge Text


Urls
To add a clickable link to your message, use the following tags in your message:



In the code above, replace WEBSITE URL with the address to the website you want to link to in your message.

Example: http://www.google.com

If you want to give the link a name use the following tags in your message:


In the code above, replace WEBSITE URL with the address to the website you want to link to and LINK DISPLAY NAME with what you want the clickable link to say in your message.

Example: This is a link to Google