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Question for BBCoders of CS

Postby Felicity<3 » Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:14 pm

Hello there! This question is for people who code with BBCode for signatures and stuff. I've been working on a signature these past few days as you can see in my sig, however i came across a problem while working on it. Here's a simple layout of how my sig was originally designed and what i expected:
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However, it turned out like this:
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It almost seems like images are fixed-width. It stubbornly refuses to resize. Which is fine, because I could just move the images out on its own container and be right/left-aligned to its own sides, so i could fit it in and stop the green from filling out all the empty spaces it could find. That's when i ran into problem: I couldn't create another container to hold everything without it conflicting with things inside. Left, Right, Center, they were all used. So i just decided to do a quick fix, using [i] as the parent container to everything but the green box. This is what i expected to occour.
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Unexpectedly, though, this happened.
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Which is fine for my sig, as i planned to change the image containers anyways, but it confused me. I've developed websites and done CSS for a few years, but ive never coded with BBCode until recently, which is why i am extremely unfamiliar with it, but based on the knowledge i have from designing websites and stuff, how is the green box, which is a sibling of the purple [i] box, end up inside the [i] box? Almost like the green box has absolute position. This could of course just be because the [i] box isnt meant to be a literal container, but rather a style- and thus does not have container properties. But then, what can i use that has container properties? Normally in web development i can freely use things like <div> nested, as they can stack within each other, but here I can't stack the left/right/center, and there is no <div>. I'm not quite sure what to use for the container outside.

So to summerise:
If BBCode’s left/right/center containers can’t be stacked, and [i] isn’t a true container, what can be used as a parent container without interfering with child contents?

If anyone could help, i would really appreciate it!
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Tasks:
[*] Turn quote into images, with caveat font
[*] Resize stars to fit side images
[*]Add fox
[*] Add hidden links
[*] Fill in words
[*] Design lyric box
[*] Fix the credit and largerer padding alignment issues (will fix when done procastinating)
[*] Link FA and art thread
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Re: Question for BBCoders of CS

Postby Felicity<3 » Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:16 pm

Oh and i forgot to ask, but what's the minimum size the signature display can go to, in like pixels of an img embed? Thanks once again in advance for helping <3
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FurAffinity
Art Thread
Image
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Text her
Text here
Cursive here
Cursive here
padding here
padding here
padding here
padding here
paddinghere
paddinghere
Image
Image
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Lyric box hereLyric box here
You say that you love me,
And I write it all down
So when you're gone I'll remember.
But as I get old I find,
I can't trust my own mind
And your words all break down into laughter...

LARGEReR Padding here
Credits here

Tasks:
[*] Turn quote into images, with caveat font
[*] Resize stars to fit side images
[*]Add fox
[*] Add hidden links
[*] Fill in words
[*] Design lyric box
[*] Fix the credit and largerer padding alignment issues (will fix when done procastinating)
[*] Link FA and art thread
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Re: Question for BBCoders of CS

Postby c-ta » Sat Oct 04, 2025 5:51 am

i can't fully answer/fix the coding here, but you're right that [i] isnt a container, its for style only. the best "container" equivalent i've found is the [quote] option. bbcode is a LOT more simple than most any coding. i wouldn't really call [left]/[right]/[center] as true containers but can help seperate stuff out, but they'll still run into each other. like if the [center] takes up the whole space, it wont auto adjust for it to be equal between [right] and [left]. sometimes i'll put many lines of enters to make stuff fit right. i hope that helps point you in the right direction even if it didnt fully answer the question !!

this thread is also specific for bbcode help :3

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Re: Question for BBCoders of CS

Postby Felicity<3 » Sat Oct 04, 2025 12:48 pm

thanks for answering! I don't really want to use [quote], but i think i can figure out a workaround somehow. Thanks though, it does help a lot!
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Image
Image
FurAffinity
Art Thread
Image
Image
Text her
Text here
Cursive here
Cursive here
padding here
padding here
padding here
padding here
paddinghere
paddinghere
Image
Image
Image
Lyric box hereLyric box here
You say that you love me,
And I write it all down
So when you're gone I'll remember.
But as I get old I find,
I can't trust my own mind
And your words all break down into laughter...

LARGEReR Padding here
Credits here

Tasks:
[*] Turn quote into images, with caveat font
[*] Resize stars to fit side images
[*]Add fox
[*] Add hidden links
[*] Fill in words
[*] Design lyric box
[*] Fix the credit and largerer padding alignment issues (will fix when done procastinating)
[*] Link FA and art thread
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