I think you're over complicating things and confusing BB code with the alignment system off a word processor (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, etc.) BB Code is designed to work like webcoding, but it's a simpler format that doesn't allow tags that could potentially break the page and it's structure/security. For instance, this would be the code that would be used to center a paragraph in HTML. [quote]

This is a paragraph.

[color=ed1c24]

This is some text!

[/color] [/quote] Depending on what the surrounding code is like there may need to be some more lines of code added. Is it the center of a text box? A window? Or a Column? Is there text padding? BB code was created to take some of that heartache out and simplify the code generator by giving it key references to look for. So every time you add [noparse][B][/B][/noparse] it will realise, "Ah, this text needs to be bold" and add that effect. By industry standard the text will always be left align, because standards state that text will be left aligned, and adding center and right alignments will move the text to the corresponding alignments. So there is no need for ever coding a left align BB code as it is already there by default. If you want some of your text to be left align simply end the alignment and restart it elsewhere. [img]http://i.imgur.com/oo2CZ1V.gif[/img]