how to escape bbcode in posts [solved]

[tspacepilot]

I noticed that [code\] blocks in my PMs in my inbox have no syntax highilighting, while the same messages in my outbox have syntax highlighting.  Has anyone else noticed this?  I guess I can generate screenshots but if it's already known the I don't want to waste the time.[/code\]

And btw, what's the more elegant way to escape [code\]?

[tspacepilot]

Actually I figured out what was up with this.  The colors appeared in the one message because there was a <?php somewhere in it whereas the other example had just some javascript.  So apparantly the syntax highlighting in \[code\] tags has some heuristics for identifying a language or whatever.

However, my second question stands, how can we write bbcode tags in the body of a message, how can we escape them like when you want to write write < in html you need to write &lt; so that the html parser ignores it?

[theymos_away]

Put it in either another code block or [nobbc][/nobbc] tags. Eg. [code]unparsed code[/code].

[tspacepilot]

Put it in either another code block or [nobbc][/nobbc] tags. Eg. [code]unparsed code[/code].

Thanks theymos_away!  That's my education for the day.