Simple HTML

For those wishing to enter comments (or any other text) in HTML, this page says which HTML tags and properties can be used. This is what we mean by 'Simple HTML'.

HTML tags can be used for layout, formatting and linking or referencing. This is not a complete list of the tags that this site accepts, but is enough for most of the simple text formatting that you may need to do.

Layout

<p>paragraph</p>

a block of text with space before and after it

<pre>preformatted text<pre>

A paragraph, but one with your exact spacing preserved (useful for code or poetry, or ASCII art. A monospaced font is used.

<blockquote>indented text<blockquote>

A paragraph, but indented, ideal for quoting passages.

<ul>
<li>bulletted list item
<li>bulletted list item
<li>etc
</ul>

An unordered list, presented in bulleted form.

<ol type="i">
<li>first numbered list item
<li>second numbered list item
<li>etc
</ul>

An ordered list, presented like a bulletted list, but with numbering. The numbering type can be "1", "A", "a", "I" or "i".

Formatting

These tags should always appear within some kind of layout tags, even if they are just normal paragraphs.

<b>bold</b>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>
<tt>teletype</tt>
<kbd>keyboard input</kbd>
<strong>highlight</strong>

bold, italic, underline, teletype, keyboard input, highlighted text -- note that in HTML our style sheet may use grey text instead of proper italics

Linking or referencing

<a href="http://example.org">LINK</a>

Inserts a clickable LINK.

<cite title="CITATION">TITLE</cite>

Supplies a CITATION for a work with a given TITLE. In HTML a dotted underline will indicate the citation, which will appear in a mouseover box. The citation may appear as a footnote in the print or text-only versions of our pages.

<dfn title="DEFINITION">TERM</a>

Supplies a DEFINITION for a certain TERM. In HTML a dotted underline will indicate the definition, which will appear in a mouseover box. The definition may appear as a footnote in the print or text-only versions of our pages.

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