Before listing the available BBC buttons and their purposes, let's see how they work by imagining that we want to post some text in bold type. While we can start by clicking the B (Bold) button and typing our text between the tags it produces, it's often more practical to type the text first, highlight it and then click the button. So typing 'text', highlighting it and clicking the 'B' button should produce 'text', which renders as text when posted or previewed. (NB This doesn't work in Opera, which inserts the tags at the end of the post.) Subsequently highlighting 'text' and clicking the I (Italicized) button will produce 'text', which not only renders as text when posted or previewed but also introduces the concept of nesting, which means that each new set of tags in a case like this should be seen as a new 'box' containing both the original text and any tags already applied to it.

Note that the BBC tags can also be typed and edited direct instead of clicking the buttons.
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/bold.gif[/img] - Example Bold
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/italicize.gif[/img] - Example Italicize
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/underline.gif[/img] - Example Underline
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/strike.gif[/img] - [s]Example[/s] Strikethrough

[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/pre.gif[/img] - Preformatted Text
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/left.gif[/img] - Left Align
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/center.gif[/img] - Centered
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/right.gif[/img] - Right Align

[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/glow.gif[/img] - [glow=red,2,300]Glow[/glow]
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/shadow.gif[/img] - [shadow=red,left]Shadow[/shadow]
[img width=23 height=22]https://canvascampers.com/Themes/dsv4_20rc3/images/bbc/move.gif[/img] - [move]Marquee[/move]

I hope this makes sense and is helpful.  Other useful forum tips can be found at https://canvascampers.com/index.php?board=26.0