SMF features a wide array of bbcode tags for your formatting pleasure. Below is a list of all the tags supported by SMF:
[b]Bold[/b] - **Bold** [i]Italic[/i] - //Italic// [u]Underline[/u] - __Underline__ [s]Strikethrough[/s] - <del>Strike-through</del> [glow=green,2,300]Glow[/glow] - Applies the [[http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/reference/filters/glow.asp|Glow Filter]] to the specified text in Internet Explorer. In other browsers, it shows the text with the specified background color. [move]Text[/move] - Makes the specified text scroll across the screen (uses HTML marquee tag) [pre]Text more text[/pre] (preformatted text) - <file>Text more text</file> [left]Text[/left] - Left-aligns the specified text. Default formatting except when using a right-to-left language (such as Arabic) [center]Text[/center] - Center-aligns the specified text [right]Text[/right] - Right-aligns the specified text (default formatting for right-to-left languages such as Arabic) [hr] - inserts a horizontal rule (like this one only wider) --- [size=size]Text[/size] displays the text with the specified font size (size must be followed by "px" (pixels) or "pt" (point)) [font=name]Text[/font] - displays the specified text using the specified font [color=...]Text[/color] - displays the text in the specified color (can be a name or a hexadecimal color code) [flash]url_to_movie.swf[/flash] - displays a URL to the flash movie or embeds the movie depending on forum settings (by default, the option to embed flash is disabled) [img]image.gif[/img] - inserts an image [url]http://www.simplemachines.org[/url] - [[http://www.simplemachines.org|http://www.simplemachines.org]] [url=http://www.simplemachines.org]SMF Website[/url] - [[http://www.simplemachines.org|SMF Website]] [email]me@me.com[/email] - inserts a mailto: link with the specified email address [email=me@me.com]Mail me![/email] - inserts a named mailto: link using the specified email address [ftp]ftp://somecoolsite.com[/ftp] - inserts an FTP link (link can be ftp://, ftp:user:password@server.com or just ftp.server.com) [ftp=ftp://somecoolsite.com]FTP[/ftp] - inserts a named FTP link [table][/table] - inserts a table (must contain one or more tr tags) [tr][/tr] - inserts a table row (has to be used with table and must contain at least one [td]...[/td] tag) [td][/td] - inserts a table cell (must be nested - [table][tr][td]text[/td][td]more text[/td][/tr][/table]) [sup]Text[/sup] - <sup>Superscript</sup> [sub]Text[/sub] - <sub>Subscript</sub> [tt]Text[/tt] (monospaced text) - ''Text'' [code]...[/code] - displays the specified text in a code box (preformatted, no bbcode gets parsed, syntax-highlighted for PHP) [quote]Quote[/quote] - quotes the specified text [quote=xxx]Quote[/quote] - displays a quote box with "Quote From: xxx" as the header [list][li]Text[/li][/list] - Inserts a list (in 1.0.x, equivalent to <ul>...</ul> [unordered list]; in 1.1, equivalent to <list><li>...</li></list> with optional "type" parameter)
SMF also has several unlisted bbcode tags (there is no button for these, but they will work):
[iurl]http://www.simplemachines.org[/iurl] - internal link (equivalent to URL except it opens in the same window) [iurl=http://www.simplemachines.org]SMF Website[/iurl] - named internal link [*]Text - Bulleted item (single-line only; filled-in circular bullet) [#]Text or [x]Text - Bulleted item (single-line only; square bullet) [o]Text or [0]Text - Bulleted item (single-line only; open circular bullet) [abbr=Abbr]Abbreviation[/abbr] - Abbreviation (equivalent to abbr HTML tag) [acronym=WYSIWYG]What You See Is What You Get[/acronym] - Acronym (equivalent to acronym HTML tag)
SMF 1.1 also has several additional “hidden” tags:
[anchor=x]Text[/anchor] - creates a named anchor (equivalent to <a name="x">Text</a>) [iurl=#x]Link[/iurl] - displays a link to the specified anchor (must be within the same topic) [html]<b>Look ma, HTML!</b>[/html] - inserts HTML into the post (administrators only)