How Does Using BBCode Affect Features in Visual Editors?

[symbolipoint]

Just checking some of the composition tools

Strike-Through

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spoiler-test, uncovered

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[Rocketguy]

Wait where do you get it?

 

[symbolipoint]

Just checking some of the composition tools

Strike-Through

Spoiler: spoiler-test

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Wait where do you get it?

The post/reply-post composition section in any topic. This shows a top bar of gray color and there are several tool buttons in it. (bold, italicise, underline, text-color,... and others.) There is included a PLUS tool; and if you click on it, you are presented a list of Quote, Spoiler, Code, Strike-Through.

A section on bottom, below the composition field shows four buttons: INSERT QUOTES, POST REPLY, PREVIEW, and UPLOAD.

 

[jim mcnamara]

@Rocketguy - the forum allows you to enter some "invisible tags" - they occur in pairs - start and finish. Example: your cursor, click on the letter "B" in the gray bar. Makes text bold. Click again and it turns off. I put spaces in the following "tags" - which makes them not work: [ B ] bold text here [ /B ]. Remove the spaces inside the brackets to make it work. I type the tag things because I'm old and I visit another older version vBulletin site that uses almost identical tags. XenForo (PF forums application) is an offshoot of vBulletin.

+ B I U and so on across the gray bar mostly work like that. The last icon on the bar (bbCode) let's you type those tag things in, but you lose other features. I use bbCode when I cut and paste from another site in order to get rid of unwanted tags that turn my post into a ransom note.

 

[mfb]

The last icon on the bar (bbCode) let's you type those tag things in, but you lose other features.

What do you lose?
The visual editor just uses bbcodes internally. There are things you can do with bbcode that the visual editor does not support. Try to make a red underline with the visual editor: Text