(A little hole scratched thru a wall of the state)
Hi! I'm the rat that roams the hallways and rooms of the State. I am made of stainless steel, and am pretty much indestructible. Seph has a 'thing' about rodents though, so Don't tell her you have been here. If she finds out I'm living in here, she will lay traps to catch me.
Over the course of time I have learned a few things about HTML, and it's capabilities. So I thought a beginners guide to HTML would be a good thing to have around.
The most important thing to remember about these tips, is they only work if you are NAKED!
So take off your clothes, get comfortable and let's play HTML......
Italics.........................................................<i>Text</i>...................................................Text
Bold...........................................................<b>Text</b>...................................................Text
Underline..................................................<u>Text</u>....................................................Text
Font Size..........................................<font size=4>Text</font>.....................................Text
(size can range from 1 [small] to 7 [huge])
Font color......................................<font color=red>Text</font>......................................Text
Blink......................................................<blink>Text</blink>............................................Strike Out.............................................<strike>Text</strike>..........................................Text
Superscript..............................................T<sup>ext</sup>...............................................Text
Subscript..................................................T<sub>ext</sub>...............................................Text
Fixed Font Style..........................................<tt>Text</tt>................................................Text
All of the tags listed above may be "nested"
to use them at the same time
For example <i><b>Text</i></b> would result in
Text
You can get carried away with this however.....making your posts
very time consuming to type, like this one
<i><b><font size=4><font color=green><blink>Text</blink></font></font></b></i>
would result in There are few other important
text commands:
Paragraph <p>: The <p> 'tag' forces a blank line, and then starts text on the line following the blank one. There is a paragraph 'tag' after the word 'commands:' above.
Break <br>: The <br> 'tag' is a single carriage return,
it drops your text one line, without inserting a blank line before it<br>
Like This!!!
Headline <hX>: The <hX> 'tag' is the headline tag. It inserts a blank line both before and after the text enclosed by it. The X value can range from 1 (the largest) to 6 (the smallest). It requires a close tag that matches the original tag. Like this <h2>Text</h2> will give you this:
An odd quirk of the headline tag, is that <font size=7> is actually larger than <h1>
There are a other text commands, the only other one commonly used is <center> which will center any text across the page!
<center>Like This</center>
A useful tip for use with the 'font' instruction is the ability to put both size and color in one instruction like this:
<font size=4 color=red>Text</font>................will yield Text
There is a color chart here, it lists both the color names, and the rgb (hex) color codes. There is an example of a color name being utilized above, and here is an example of how to use the rgb (hex) color codes:
<font color=#FFFF00>Text</font> would yield this..........Text
You can see a list of all the functional color names here
I've also written a page
of instructions on how to use CuteFTP Here!
More HTML for beginners