Chrono Compendium Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.Did you miss your activation email? 1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever Login with username, password and session length News: Home Help Search Login Register Chrono Compendium » Zenan Plains - Site Discussion » General Discussion » Forum vs. "Normal" HTML « previous next » Print Pages: [1] Author Topic: Forum vs. "Normal" HTML (Read 667 times) jessmanboo22 Iokan (+1) Posts: 7 Forum vs. "Normal" HTML « on: November 04, 2008, 11:50:55 pm » I made this post when I was around 12 years old and didn't know anything about computer science, web design, or any of those kinds of things.blaaaaaaaattt « Last Edit: September 25, 2013, 04:27:11 am by jessmanboo22 » Logged Vehek Errare Explorer (+1500) Posts: 1761 Re: Forum vs. "Normal" HTML « Reply #1 on: November 04, 2008, 11:55:39 pm » Does this help you?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode Logged V_Translanka Interim Global Moderator Arbiter (+8000) Posts: 8340 Destroyer of Worlds Re: Forum vs. "Normal" HTML « Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 01:35:39 am » If you want to show board tags, just do this...[*img]http://www.outregallery.com/images/products/dont_be_stupid.jpg[/img]The asterisk will stop them from being implemented...and it doesn't look all lame like spelling out "brackets" & such... Logged Ramsus Guest Re: Forum vs. "Normal" HTML « Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 05:21:59 am » Quote from: jessmanboo22 on November 04, 2008, 11:50:55 pmHello y'allI really wonder... I get annoyed when I just finished learning all the HTML I could possibly learn, and then you go to a forum and there's a completely new set of tags that have to be used!I hope you don't get the impression that I'm complaing; rather, I guess I'm asking if anyone knows why Forum HTML's seem to be so different from Webpage HTML's.For example, tags have to go in brackets instead of carets, and url's are put like the following (words in bold indicate the symbol they name)bracketurlbracketyour url herebracket/urlbracket, rather then something like carot"a href=your url here"carotYour text herecarot/acarotDoes anyone know why forum HTML is different?EDIT: Oops, sorry, all those red backgrounds are kind of ye straining... here, I just changed it to bold .Cross-site scripting attacks. That's the reason we don't simply allow HTML in posts. You have to sanitize inputs, and it's much safer to simply disallow HTML tags. Even BBCode can be implemented with serious vulnerabilities if you simply convert them to HTML tags or toss their values into HTML tags and attributes without sanitizing them first... « Last Edit: November 05, 2008, 05:25:36 am by Ramsus » Logged Jutty Black Wind Agent (+600) Posts: 614 The Most In-Frequent Poster Ever Re: Forum vs. "Normal" HTML « Reply #4 on: November 05, 2008, 05:47:54 am » If you know html then you should have no problem reading and understanding how to use BBcodes. Logged Print Pages: [1] « previous next » Chrono Compendium » Zenan Plains - Site Discussion » General Discussion » Forum vs. "Normal" HTML