
Formatting Worksheet
This is the formatting help table provided to us by the site. It is a valuable resource for formatting options within the text/description field.
Tag DescriptionYou TypeYou Get
Anchors are used to make links to other pages.
<a href=””>Digital Is …</a>
Digital Is …
Abbreviation
<abbr title=”Abbreviation”>Abbrev.</abbr>
Abbrev.
Acronym
<acronym title=”Three-Letter Acronym”>TLA</acronym>
TLA
No help provided for tag address.
No help provided for tag area.
Bolded
<b>Bolded</b>
Bolded
No help provided for tag big.
Block quoted
<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>
Block quoted
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 break
Text with
line break
No help provided for tag button.
No help provided for tag caption.
No help provided for tag center.
Cited
<cite>Cited</cite>
Cited
Coded text used to show programming source code
<code>Coded</code>
Coded
No help provided for tag col.
No help provided for tag colgroup.
Deleted
<del>Deleted</del>
Deleted
No help provided for tag dfn.
No help provided for tag dir.
No help provided for tag div.
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 termFirst definitionSecond termSecond definition
Emphasized
<em>Emphasized</em>
Emphasized
No help provided for tag fieldset.
No help provided for tag font.
No help provided for tag form.
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
No help provided for tag hr.
Italicized
<i>Italicized</i>
Italicized
No help provided for tag img.
No help provided for tag input.
Inserted
<ins>Inserted</ins>
Inserted
No help provided for tag kbd.
No help provided for tag label.
No help provided for tag legend.
No help provided for tag map.
No help provided for tag menu.
Ordered list – use the <li> to begin each list item
<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>
- First item
- Second item
No help provided for tag optgroup.
No help provided for tag option.
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.
Preformatted
<pre>Preformatted</pre>
Preformatted
Quoted inline
<q>Quoted inline</q>
Quoted inline
No help provided for tag s.
No help provided for tag samp.
No help provided for tag select.
No help provided for tag small.
No help provided for tag span.
No help provided for tag strike.
Strong
<strong>Strong</strong>
Strong
Subscripted
<sub>Sub</sub>scripted
Subscripted
Superscripted
<sup>Super</sup>scripted
Superscripted
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.
No help provided for tag textarea.
No help provided for tag tfoot.
No help provided for tag thead.
No help provided for tag tt.
Underlined
<u>Underlined</u>
Underlined
Unordered list – use the <li> to begin each list item
<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>
- First item
- Second item
No help provided for tag var.
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 DescriptionYou TypeYou Get
Ampersand
&
&
Greater than
>
>
Less than
<
<
Quotation mark
"
“