😊[BBCODE] How to add images to your posts, add links to images, post Youtube videos, and other popular tricks

Posting Images



Posting Youtube Videos






Boxes around text



Posting Images and Text alongside each other (side by side)



Adding Links to Text



Adding Links to Images




Put stuff into Spoilers



Naming Spoilers




Customizing Text with color, size, cursive, etc





How to combine BBcode
See my example in the video: https://youtu.be/u6Mwy4wMRUk?t=517

Paste or type all the OPENING tags first, with the text in between to change, then the closing tags in the opposite order of the opening tags. I have two good examples you can view and copy below.





Profile/Signature BBcode Tricks
People often ask how to make BBcode like this. Just click the spoiler button under each signature to see the BBcode for it, and you can see how its done and replace the images with your own.



Two pics with text in the middle











Signature with boxes behind PNGs








Signature with boxes behind PNGs












Set BBcode for others to copy with the code tag

With the code tags, any BBcodes in between them won't activate as they normally would, and instead display in a quote like box for easy copying like this below. You can also quote a thread post to see the BBcode. Example:


Put the BBcode into the literal code tags [code] [/code]. The code example of BBcode would be: [code][yt]tnA_-dWKUdc[/yt][/code]







More BBcode guides and tricks



Making profile and signature graphics



Full Signature Overview and adding automatic updates






If you need help, head to 4:25 in this video to see all BBcode displayed!

Here is a Userscript to add Buttons and drop-down to Quick Reply, Private Message and About Me

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/142850

I can't find the thread where I put this last time, but I've updated the script and it should help to simplify the process to make a custom profile graphic with links.

[Shishio, feel free to add this info in the respective thread and delete this post :) ]

Wow this is nice and a lot of people use it... I totally forgot how to install these tho lol. It doesn't seem to bring up anything but the source code when I click the green button?

Umm... it's supposed to pop up greasemonkey script installation, but didn't work with the new versions of greasemonkey. But copy all the source code to clipboard and make a new script in greasemonkey and use the button "Use Script From Clipboard".

I don't suppose you can change video size with bbc?

Never seen it here.

I can't seem to be able to put links in words now. Did they change it or something?

Some BBCode has been disabled due some hacks and gore images on the site.

and seems like you can only use bbcode on profile and club's info for now.

is there a way for the spoiler button to be in the middle again after clicking "hide spoiler" ? i set the button so that it will be centered but it keeps going to the left side

Afaik no, 'cause the page code is a little messy and a lot different of other forums. Can suggest to the admins to change the code but I if they can't take back IMG BBCode, I doubt they change Spoiler BBCode that easy.

Greetings Shishio-kun! :D

First of all let me thank you for your detailed instructions that you so kindly uploaded. ^__^
After having a MAL profile for quite some time I decided to improve it a little bit. Your tutorials helped a lot but when I started to upload a picture in my signature section nothing showed up except the BBCode. I have followed your instruction above (and resized everything) but the image is still not seen on MAL forums even if I put the [url][/url].
Have I missed something, Is the BBCode taking too long to upload/shown or there is another problem that I do not know? Would you be kind enough to help me, please?

Thank you in advance.

http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=19736

Front page of club, top page, read under information -> site problems

Oh my... I didn't notice that!
Just read everything about this problem and as everyone else hope for it to be fixed as soon as possible.
Shishio-kun and IntroverTurtle thank you for your answers. ^__^

How do I make it so that the pictures are presented in one row instead of on top of each other going from top to bottom?

Also websites that end in punctation do not work such as

for MAL entries you can simply end the link after the number in this case it would be http://myanimelist.net/anime/6547

You just put all the IMG tags for all the pics side by side with no space between them and without hitting enter key in between them. Also, the combined width of the pics you want on one row must not exceed the width of the place you want to put them on, for example, club information max width is 629px I think. If your pics end up going over that amount then the pics spill over to a lower part since there's no more room.

Thank you for the quick responses, to Oiomi-chan and Shishio-kun.

Hi need some help. How do i put color on my text because i type the code and replace the '' color '' for red example when i see my profile it just shows the code and the text i put in between the codes help pls

Don't replace the words color with the color, put the color name or number after the equal sign. Example: [color=red][/color]

Great help man, looking forward to more of your work.

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere and I've just missed it, but how do you get an image and text to appear side by side? Is there a way to use custom fonts too?

I just wrote a topic for it since it gets asked about a lot
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1443383

also added it to the OP

How do I overlap pictures?

I guess no one knows, do you have an example?

For example I want this: http://imgur.com/2Tj1GfB

on top of this:http://imgur.com/mrqsFhW

ok np, its a very popular little trick but it can't be done with BBcode; it needs to be done with graphics programs. But they're free!

As you know, you will need a character render (one with a cut out background) like the Miku one you linked us, and a background for it.

It can either be done with GIMP, I show how to do it at the time 2:40 of this video:
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=544347

or it can be done with Photoshop as I show in the step 3 here (not a video):
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1392420#msg40753590
btw downloads for a free Photoshop copy are in post 1 of that topic

Thanks a ton!

Ah finally found that align bbcode. D: thanks a bunch for these helpful tricks. :3

There is a border which surrounds the text inside the code tags. i.e


I've seen that many people have the same border around their text, but the text isn't in the raw text form, instead as normal text.

I was wondering if you knew how to just get the border to surround text.

I been trying for hours okay link me to a youtube video that shows how to do this.

Just copy this practice code (from the topic) into your profile About Me. The top. Save.



The text that shows up on the spoiler goes between the quotations. In the practice code, that would be her secret identity. The text a secret will show up when you click on the spoiler.

It works but not what i was wanting i want what he has under the favorite male, Female https://myanimelist.net/profile/Data_ This is a edit okay i got it. Now just need to learn to add more...

it show the link to the picture not the picture in general

I'm gonna assume you're referring to the broken image in your About Me? You seem to be using a bad image link. Upload the image to Imgur or the other sites recommended in the OP, and put the "direct link" it makes in between the IMG tags

How can I make a youtube video autoplay and/or loop on a blog post please ?

idk how to do that. Did someone do that? If so link me and I can maybe copy the code

I don't know either if someone already did that, I just assumed it would be possible. If I happen to find someone, I'll link it right away !

Seconded this. Mention me if anyone know how to do it.

I want to help but I'm not sure what you guys are referring to. Don't know exactly what you mean by raw text and normal text. Can you show me an example from someone's post or profile? I can rip the code from there.

it's not code tags:


or quote tags?

Sorry for the late response. m(__)m
Go to this profile and open spoiler

Ah, it's a cleverly used quote box. The "about me" text is enclosed with a quote box, and there are images on either side covering up the sides of the box. That gives it the lined look.

I recreated the parts of the code that are important to get the same look here:
The only important bits are the aligned img tags and the quote box, though. The other BBCode is for other aesthetic. If you are still confused about anything just ask.

And to show that it is indeed the same, here is code from above but actually in use (not just in a code box).

@Valerio_Lyndon


I see, I see. Well, yeah the person who made that code (including images) is an expert (?) or well likes coding.
On another topic, there have been another cleverly codes. Random suggestion, but how about adding these cleverly codes at the top post? Dunno what title should type, maybe other famous tricks? Anyway, thank you again for the help! m /

@MawaruHime

Ah so you're suggesting to add how to do the "quote box behind pics" trick like this, right?


If so, yeah I can probably add something like that to the top, thanks for the suggestion.

Yup, that's right and you're welcome for the suggestion. ^^

Ok! I've added a little section at the end on how to do this.

Thank you sir!

Thank you so much, kind person!

My about me photo is messed up. The photos are uploaded to photobucket. I checked there all seems ok. 14GB+ free space left

Then why my about me. Split photo buttons are like this. Looked okey even somedays ago