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BBCode to HTML Converter

Turn forum BBCode into safe, escaped HTML — lists, quotes, code and colours.

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The BBCode to HTML Converter turns forum markup into escaped, balanced HTML — lists, quotes, code blocks, colours and links — with a live preview of the result.

What it does
Converts BBCode posts to HTML
You give it
BBCode from a forum
You get back
Safe, escaped HTML plus a preview
Best for
Migrating forum posts to a modern site
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About the BBCode to HTML Converter

BBCode is what forum posts have been written in for twenty-five years, and it is still what phpBB, MyBB, vBulletin, XenForo and countless game communities store. Moving those posts to a modern site, a blog or a static export means turning them into HTML.

Paste BBCode and get HTML. Bold, italic, underline, strike, colour, size, font, alignment, quotes with attribution, code blocks, spoilers, lists — both bulleted and numbered — images, links, email addresses and tables are all handled. Tags are matched as pairs rather than replaced one by one, so an unclosed [b] cannot bleed into the rest of the post, anything inside [code] is left exactly as written, and every character that is not a recognised tag is escaped. That last part matters: it means a post containing HTML or a script tag cannot become markup on your page.

Key features of the BBCode to HTML Converter

Safe by construction

Everything that is not a recognised tag is escaped, so a post cannot inject markup.

URLs checked

javascript: and data: links are rewritten rather than passed through.

Balanced output

Tags are matched as pairs, so an unclosed [b] cannot bleed into the page.

Code kept literal

Anything inside [code] is left exactly as written.

Unknown tags reported

Tags from your particular forum are listed rather than dropped silently.

How to use the BBCode to HTML Converter

  1. 1

    Paste the BBCode

    A single post, or a whole thread export.

  2. 2

    Choose the paragraph style

    Wrap blocks in <p>, or keep line breaks as <br>.

  3. 3

    Check the preview

    The rendered result is shown underneath.

  4. 4

    Copy the HTML

    Paste it into a CMS, a template or a static page.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Everything that is not a recognised BBCode tag is HTML-escaped, and javascript: or data: URLs inside [url] are rewritten, so a hostile post cannot inject markup or script.

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