NOPARSE is your friend

[Sayonara]

Ever tried to tell someone how to use a particular bit of BB code, and had to tell them something like "remove the spaces to make the tags work"?

 

Then you'll have probably given up and gone for a cigarette when they said "what spaces?"

 

 

VB includes a tag called noparse which you can use for displaying BB code as normal text. Any BB code enclosed by the noparse tags will be ignored when the post is parsed and rendered to the browser.

 

 

So, for example, if I take this...

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...and surround it with noparse tags...

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...you will see this:

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Try it out!

[YT2095]

neat! I could have done with something like that a few times.

[Strange]

As the first post shows, no parse no longer works. Which is a shame. 

I wonder if a code block does:

[math]x_0^2[/math] 

Results in: [math]x_0^2[/math]