# vb codes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vb-codes/67581>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 4, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vb-codes/67581 "2001-06-04T22:22:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vb-codes/67581/1 "2001-06-04T22:22:32Z")

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How do you superscript? How do you subscript? How do you do that really tiny lettering?

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vb-codes/67581/2 "2001-06-04T22:24:15Z")

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That really tiny lettering is subscript and superscript. You do it by using **{sub}** and **{/sub}** for subscript and **{sup}** and **{/sup}** for superscript. Just replace the curly brackets with square ones!

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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vb-codes/67581/3 "2001-06-05T01:48:47Z")

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**furryman** , you will find all the tricks and hidden codes of Vb codes in this page : [VB codes explained](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50923)

Hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vb-codes/67581/4 "2001-06-06T01:21:48Z")

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\*\* test [b/]

- test \*

[sub] test [/sub]

[sup] test [/sup]