BBCode is supported for comment formatting. Supported BBCode tags are shown in Example 4.23, “Supported BBCode”. Use Comment#getTextAsHtml() to retrieve the comment text with BBCode tags converted to HTML.

[b]bold[/b]
[i]italic[/i]
[quote]Block Quote[/quote]
[url]www.coremedia.com[/url]
[url=www.coremedia.com]Coremedia[/url]
[url="https://www.coremedia.com/"]Coremedia[/url]

The configuration of the BBCode text processor KefirBB is customizable. A user defined configuration file is looked up first in classpath*:kefirbb.xml. If no user defined configuration is found, the Elastic Social configuration is used.

Note

The Elastic Social configuration of KefirBB converts line endings to <br/>