Compose tips
- Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <p> <span> <img> <div> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <br> <blockquote> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th> <td>
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 Description You Type You Get Anchors are used to make links to other pages. <a href="http://planet.mybenz.org">Planet Mybenz</a>Planet Mybenz Emphasized <em>Emphasized</em>Emphasized Strong <strong>Strong</strong>Strong Cited <cite>Cited</cite>Cited Coded text used to show programming source code <code>Coded</code>CodedUnordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>- First item
- Second item
Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>- First item
- Second item
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
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.
No help provided for tag span. No help provided for tag img. No help provided for tag div. 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
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 compatibility Text with <br />line breakText with
line breakBlock quoted <blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>Block quoted
Table <table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>Table header Table cell No help provided for tag tbody. 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 & for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:
Character Description You Type You Get Ampersand && Greater than >> Less than << Quotation mark "" - 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.
- Content in [[double square brackets]] will be linked to existing content with that title, or a page to create that content. Links can contain an optional bar, "|". Content on the left of the bar is the target; to the right, the link shown. Links to pages outside this site are allowed. They must start with one of the following: "http", "https", "ftp", or "mailto", and can exist either by themselves, or on the left of the bar. Examples:
- [[simple link]] - will go to the content titled "simple link" or a page to create that content.
- [[this is the target|this is the source]] - will present "this is the source" as a link to "this is the target", or a page to create that content.
- [[http://www.example.com|this is the source]] - will present "this is the source" as a link to http://www.example.com.
- [[http://www.example.com]] - will present "http://www.example.com" as a link to http://www.example.com.