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Formatting Worksheet

Written by Lou Buran
September 10, 2010

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>

  1. First item
  2. 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 &amp; 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
&amp;
&

Greater than
&gt;
>

Less than
&lt;
<

Quotation mark
&quot;