--- title: BBCode slug: bbcode qid: snapshot: enwiki-001378001058 content_hash: license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378001058 tags: [22944200, 23118434, 23603337, 24043274, 35371066] --- # BBCode > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `enwiki-001378001058` · content root `…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ( [ and ] ) surrounding a keyword, and is translated into HTML before being sent to the user. BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ( [ and ] ) surrounding a keyword, and is translated into HTML before being sent to the user. ==Tags== |- | colspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | Source: |} Applying traditional parsing techniques is made difficult by ambiguities in the markup, such as in , where the input can either be interpreted as "text" quoted from someone called , or the bolded text "text" surrounded by and , i.e. [quote=text[/quote] . ==See also== Other lightweight markup languages: Wikitext Markdown ==References==