Simple HTML

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For more information about HTML

• The Bare Bones guide to HTML - all the codes presented in a tabular form... invaluable for the dedicated HTML coder

• A beginners guide to HTML - Probably the best place to start. With a useful glossary and loads of examples, this is a helpful first primer.

• Composing good HTML - A style guide that gives you the good, the bad, and the ugly. Learn the code, then how to use it properly.

• Gudes to writing HTML documents - A good hotlist of HTML resources around the Web. Examples, style guides, Netiquette, and more.

Spaces and line breaks do not matter

No matter how many spaces and line breaks that you use it will always appear as one space. This means if you just paste in the entite press release, it will appear as one large block of text

<P> - paragraph

You must use this code to put a double return

between paragraphs

<HR> - horizontal rule

Draws a horizontal rule across the screen. Use sparingly

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<H3>heading text</H3> - heading style

There are 6 levels of heading. Best to use a level 3 heading (such as the one above). Use sparingly. Don't forget the closing tag

<BLOCKQUOTE> indented text </BLOCKQUOTE>

Used to indent text (this paragraph is idented with this tag). You can have multiple indents. Don't forget the closing tag.

<B> bold text </B>

Change the format of the text to bold. Don't forget the closing tag.

<I> italic text </I>

Change the format of the text to italics. This can be hard to read on computer screens, so use sparingly. Don't forget the closing tag.

Creating a bulleted list

<UL>
	<LI>Banana
	<LI>Carrot
</UL>

This looks like:

• Banana
• Carrot

Creating a numbered list

<OL>
	<LI>Banana
	<LI>Carrot
</OL>

This looks like:

1. Banana
2. Carrot

Creating a numbered list starting from a number other than 1

<OL>
	<LI VALUE=4>Banana
	<LI>Carrot
</OL>

This looks like:

4. Banana
5. Carrot

Creating a alpha numbered list

<OL TYPE=A>
	<LI>Banana
	<LI>Carrot
</OL>

This looks like:

1. Banana
2. Carrot

Creating links to other WWW pages

<A HREF="http://www.alp.org.au/">The Australian Labor Party</A>

This will look like: The Australian Labor Party

Special characters

Some characters can not be used and you must use special characters. Be very careful with smart quotes when pasting from word processors.

<	&lt;
>	&gt;
&	&amp;
"	&quot;
©	&copy;

Formatting tabular data

There is a <TABLE> tag but this is a little complex. The easiest thing to do is to use the <PRE> text </PRE> tags

<PRE>
     ------------------
     Column 1  Column 2
     ------------------
      banana    yellow
      carrot    orange
     ------------------
</PRE>

This looks like:

     ------------------
     Column 1  Column 2
     ------------------
      banana    yellow
      carrot    orange
     ------------------

If you really wanted a table

<TABLE BORDER ALIGN=CENTER>
	<TH>Column 1<TH>Column 2
	<TR>
		<TD>banana	<TD>yellow
	<TR>
		<TD>carrot	<TD>orange
</TABLE>

This looks like:

Column 1	Column 2
banana	yellow
carrot	orange

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