HTML Help

If you would like to leave a comment, you may format your text to include links, bold text, italics, and more. In order to do this, you must use HTML coding. If you are not familiar with HTML coding, this page will give you some brief instructions for how to do this.

The HTML coding you can use here consists of surrounding text with “tags,” which are commands surrounded by < >. There is an opening tag, which says, “Start doing this.” Then there is a closing tag, which says, “Stop doing this.” For example, if you typed:

it would be shown as:

The first <i> tells the browser to start italicizing the text. The “closing tag,” </i> tells the browser to stop italicizing the text. You just surround the text you want to manipulate with the tags. To bold text, you surround the text you want to bold with <b> and </b>. For example:

would show up like this:

Here are most of the HTML formatting codes you can use at Between the Links:

Now, if you want to….

• Insert a hyperlink. Inserting a hyperlink makes the text appear as a link. Clicking on it will bring the user to a web address.

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Of course, you must enter the web address you want to link to in place of the red text above.

• Text formatting. You can format text to be bold, italicized, underlined and strikethrough.

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If you want more help with HTML, I suggest going to the W3C School’s HTML Tutorial or HTML Goodies. Those two sites are how I began learning HTML and then later web languages like CGI, PHP, etc. However, please keep in mind that some HTML codes are not allowed in the comments.