Continuing the discussion from How do I prevent unicode heart from become :heart: when posting?: I don’t get that watched word thing If I’m watching reply-button and replacing it with [wrap=icon id=fa-share][/wrap] Reply I get a button, but everything else is in text form like this: [wrap=icon id=fa-share][/wrap] Reply HTML is checked and it doesn’t care if I have or haven’t fa-share in svg sub list. But if I use it directly in a post it works, as here: Reply What don’t I get now?

I asked AI and it says I can’t do that. True or hallucinations? Using BBCode in Discourse Watched Words AI Jagster: I’m using watched words to replace some terms. Can I use bbCode in replacing content? DiscourseHelper: Searching Searching for: Can bbCode be used in watched words replacement content terms? Discourse features options support limitations Reading Read: Formatting posts using markdown, BBCode, and HTML In Discourse, when using watched words to replace terms, you can indeed use BBCode in the replacement content. However, only a subset of common BBCode tags is supported. The supported tags include basic text formatting like [b]strong[/b], [i]emphasis[/i], [u]underlined[/u], [s]strikethrough[/s], and certain other tags for images, URLs, and quotes. Here is a basic example of using BBCode: Bold text: [b]This is bold[/b] Italic text: [i]This is italic[/i] Underlined text: [u]This is underlined[/u] For more specific styling like color changes, BBCode also includes [color=red]Red text[/color], but support for color may require additional plugins or adjustments, as described in this topic on Discourse BBCode. Lastly, if you’re looking to add custom BBCode or have more complex formatting requirements, further customization or use of plugins might be necessary. For more details on supported BBCode in Discourse, you can review the comprehensive list in the Discourse Formatting Guide.

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) February 18, 2025, 9:40am 3

I guess it was true, so I mark that as an solution to close this topic to clean up places a bit. Still I don’t know for sure.

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