Forum does not support tags. If you would type a <b>text</b> in the message body, it is exactly as it will be shown.
Forum supports these format commands:
strings starting with http://, ftp:// or mailto: ar automatically converted to hyperlinks.
That is if you would type in http://www.w3c.org/ it would became: http://www.w3c.org/
[code]
some code like:
^macro[html;heading;body]
[/code]
text would be emphasized and shown with custom formatting:
some code like:
^macro[html;heading;body]
[b]bold[/b] => bold
[i]italics[/i] => italics
text [color="red"]red[/color] text=> text red text
[url="http://link"]hyperlink[/url] would be converted to hyperlink, that is if you would type [url="http://www.w3c.org/"]Docs here[/url], then this will be displayed as: Docs here