User-generated content

This section covers the management and presentation of content created by your users, including BBCode, attachments, media embeds, and content moderation tools.

📄️ User-generated content

Content describes all user-generated data throughout the XenForo system, including threads and posts created within forums. Much of this content shares various facilities for enhancement, including tagging, smilies, reactions, voting and BB code text markup.

📄️ BB Code

BB code is a widely-used system of markup that allows text to be formatted with different fonts, colors and sizes, along with other abilities like emboldening or italicising text. It is loosely based on HTML markup, so for example the BB code to define bold text is [b], and you would use it like this to use it to embolden the word bold:

📄️ Smilies

Smilies, also known as emoticons are small graphical items that can be used to convey emotion or meaning in textual content. While their use has been diminished by the advent of Emoji, there is still a place for them in forums, where specific text combinations are automatically converted into iconic imagery. The most common smilie in use is the :) combination, which is replaced by a smiling face icon.

User-generated content