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dorukayhan
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[align = center][font = "Courier New"][size = 72]because bbcode doesnt allow u to customize the text easily.[/size][/font][/align]

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HTML is disabled in the forums, so you can't type in a different font or align it differently, but there is a BB code for size, where the number is a percentage of the normal text size. That means your post would look like this is you didn't include spaces:

[align=center][font="Courier New"]because bbcode doesnt allow u to customize the text easily.[/font][/align]

There is a way to type monospaced text, and that is the code tag.

Text using the code tag looks like this.
dorukayhan
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and the text size is 36 pt.
[monospace]The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog[/monospace]
[monospaced]The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog[/monospaced]

edit:
[font="Courier New"]The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog[/font]
I typed size=720 assuming bbcode measures text size in pixels

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A few things:

1) BB Code measures size in % of normal size, not pixels. That means the "36 pt" line is actually 36% of the normal text size (100 would be normal size), and the size=720 line is 720% of the normal size.

2) Neither the font or monospaced tags are part of BB Code. The way to do it is this:

What to type (but without spaces inside the brackets):

[ code ]The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.[ /code ]

What it will look like:

Edit: Let's see if size tag works on "code" text:

I set the size to 200, so it should be twice as big.

Edit 2: It didn't work, so now I put the size tag inside the code tag.

Edit 3: It looks like the code tag disables all other BB Code.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
dorukayhan
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thx for help :)
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