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  • Allowed HTML tags: <code> <src> <p> <b> <i> <a> <em> <br> <tt> <hr> <li> <ol> <ul> <pre> <img> <blockquote> <strike> <tt> <strong> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <del> <q> <sub> <dl> <dt> <dd> <a> <b> <u> <i> <sup> <div>

    This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

    For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

    Tag DescriptionYou TypeYou Get
    Coded text used to show programming source code<code>Coded</code>Coded
    No help provided for tag src.
    By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>

    Paragraph one.

    Paragraph two.
    Bolded<b>Bolded</b>Bolded
    Italicized<i>Italicized</i>Italicized
    Anchors are used to make links to other pages.<a href="http://lyssa-strada.bloggyland.com">Lyssa Strada</a>Lyssa Strada
    Emphasized<em>Emphasized</em>Emphasized
    By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibilityText with <br />line breakText with
    line break
    No help provided for tag tt.
    No help provided for tag hr.
    Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>
    1. First item
    2. Second item
    Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>
    • First item
    • Second item
    Preformatted<pre>Preformatted</pre>
    Preformatted
    No help provided for tag img.
    Block quoted<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>
    Block quoted
    No help provided for tag strike.
    No help provided for tag tt.
    Strong<strong>Strong</strong>Strong
    No help provided for tag font.
    Header<h1>Title</h1>

    Title
    Header<h2>Subtitle</h2>

    Subtitle
    Header<h3>Subtitle three</h3>

    Subtitle three
    Header<h4>Subtitle four</h4>

    Subtitle four
    Header<h5>Subtitle five</h5>
    Subtitle five
    Header<h6>Subtitle six</h6>
    Subtitle six
    Deleted<del>Deleted</del>Deleted
    Quoted inline<q>Quoted inline</q>Quoted inline
    Subscripted<sub>Sub</sub>scriptedSubscripted
    Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>
    First term
    First definition
    Second term
    Second definition
    Anchors are used to make links to other pages.<a href="http://lyssa-strada.bloggyland.com">Lyssa Strada</a>Lyssa Strada
    Bolded<b>Bolded</b>Bolded
    Underlined<u>Underlined</u>Underlined
    Italicized<i>Italicized</i>Italicized
    Superscripted<sup>Super</sup>scriptedSuperscripted
    No help provided for tag div.

    Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

    If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

    Character DescriptionYou TypeYou Get
    Ampersand&amp;&
    Greater than&gt;>
    Less than&lt;<
    Quotation mark&quot;"
  • Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.
  • To post pieces of code, surround them with <code>...</code> tags. For PHP code, you can use <?php ... ?>, which will also colour it based on syntax.
  • Acidfree inline tags
    • It is possible to change the way the [acidfree:nnn] tags look by adding a few name/value pairs. Note that any value that has spaces in it must be quoted either with single quotes ' or with double quotes ". Currently, the choices are:
    • title: use this string as the caption (Note that you can have the node title be the default caption by modifying the setting in admin/settings/acidfree)
    • align: {left,right}
    • size: {M, WxH} where M=max dimension and WxH=WidthxHeight
    • link: 'none' or relative or absolute url e.g. http://www.google.com or node/59. If set to none, thumbnail will not be a link
    • popup: any value. If set, it will cause the link to be a popup link
    • style: CSS style information for the image
    • class: additional class for the image
    Examples
    • [acidfree:1234 size=300 align=right] - right aligned thumbnail of node 1234 with max dimension of 300 pixels
    • [acidfree:4321] - left aligned thumbnail of node 4321 (default thumbnail size)
    • [acidfree:3241 align=left size=320x240] - right aligned thumbnail of node 3241 with size = 320x240
    • [acidfree:3241 title='This is a different title' size=320 popup=true link="http://mysite.dom/"] - left aligned thumbnail of node 3241 with a title set, size = 320x240, link pointing to mysite.dom and target=blank_ set in the anchor
    • [acidfree:3241 link=none class='my-image your-image' style="border: 2 px grey inset;"] - left aligned thumbnail of 3241, default size, class set and new style info
  • Web and e-mail addresses are automatically converted into links.