node-bbcode

Node-BBCode

Simple and easy BBCode library

Node-BBCode is simple library for BBCode rendering, designed for Node.JS.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Options
• Tags

Installation ^

  $ npm install node-bbcode

Usage ^

First step is to require this package.

  const BBCode = require('node-bbcode')

Now you can use BBCode as a namespace for the module. Node-BBCode contains one method, which takes two parameters; content and options.

render(content, options)

• content - BBCode string you want to render. This can be either whole text or single BBC tag.
• options - An object containing your settings for current rendering process.

Options ^

• classPrefix - prefix class to be inserted on all rendered tags. (Default: 'bbcode'): String
• newLine - whether or not to break line <br> on \n new line. (Default: false): Boolean
• allowData - whether or not to allow custom data- tags on BBCode tag. (Default: false): Boolean
• allowClasses - whether or not to allow custom classes on BBCode tag. (Default: false): Boolean

For more details about data-* and class tags, see 'tags' section.

Tags ^

List of tags supported by Node-BBCode

• quote - renders to: <div class="quote" data-author="ID" data-name="NAME">NAME wrote:<blockquote>TEXT</blockquote></div>
  • ID - quoted post's author ID (Number) (Optional)
  • NAME - quoted post's author Name (String) (Optional)
• url - renders to: <a href="URL">TEXT</a>
  • URL - destination link (String)
• email - renders to: <a href="mailto:EMAIL">TEXT</a>
  • EMAIL - email address (String)
• b - renders to: <strong>TEXT</strong>
• i - renders to: <em>TEXT</em>
• u - renders to: <span style="text-decoration:underline">TEXT</span>
• s - renders to: <span style="text-decoration:line-through">TEXT</span>
• indent - renders to: <blockquote>TEXT</blockquote>
• ul and list - renders to: <ul><li>item 1</li><li>item 2</li></ul>
• ol - renders to: <ol><li>item 1</li><li>item 2</li></ol>
• code, php, java, javascript, cpp, ruby, python - renders to: <pre>CODE</pre>
• highlight - renders to: <span style="background-color: COLOR">TEXT</span>
  • COLOR - color (String)
• color - renders to: <span style="color: COLOR">TEXT</span>
  • COLOR - color (String)
• span - renders to: <span>TEXT</span>
• h1 - renders to: <h1>TEXT</h1>
• h2 - renders to: <h2>TEXT</h2>
• h3 - renders to: <h3>TEXT</h3>
• h4 - renders to: <h4>TEXT</h4>
• h5 - renders to: <h5>TEXT</h5>
• h6 - renders to: <h6>TEXT</h6>
• img - renders to: <img src="SRC" title="TITLE" alt="ALT" height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH">
  • SRC - source (String)
  • TITLE - title (String) (Optional)
  • ALT - alternative text (String) (Optional)
  • HEIGHT - height (Number) (Optional)
  • WIDTH - width (Number) (Optional)

All BBC tags support class and data-* attributes:

•   [span class="large" data-id="1"]TEXT[/span]
  

will end up as:

•   <span class="large" data-id="1">TEXT</span>
  

BOTH ATTRIBUTES HAVE TO BE ALLOWED ON options OBJECT (see 'options' section).