Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to set the reply box into a form of dedicated BBCode mode. I remember on the old forum software there was a toggle at the far left of the formatting buttons that would set it to BBCode, but I'm not seeing anything here and while the new box parses BBCode at least somewhat reliably, if I post a link using the URL tags, it'll link the link, but ignore the URL tagging if I go back to edit it later. (This was [unintentionally] tested in my signature field, where I was linking the "shoot me a PM" text.)

tl;dr: Is there a way to set the reply box to force-parse BBCode instead of running as a combination BBCode/WYSIWYG editor?

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Edited August 3, 201510 yr by AlconH

IPB 4 doesn't really *have* BBCode; it internally operates on HTML, and when you type BBCode into a post it parses it to HTML when you post and just saves the HTML. So, a BBCode editor is impossible; the only "code mode" is if you have HTML posting privileges, in which case you can directly work on HTML source.

Shame. Thanks.

With IPS mimicking social sites, it was optimistic to think something as "complex" as BBCode would remain. WYSIWYG offers much less control and flexibility. Perfect for them morons.

You can use your browser's dev tools or Firebug to insert HTML into the editor, but it will strip anything it does not like.