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  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <br> <p> <h1> <h2 id> <h3 id> <h4 id> <h5 id> <cite> <dl> <dt> <dd> <a hreflang href aria-label title class target="_blank" data-entity-type data-entity-uuid data-entity-substitution> <blockquote cite> <ul type> <ol type start> <img data-entity-type data-entity-uuid src alt height width> <strong> <em> <code class="language-*"> <pre> <li> <table> <tr> <td rowspan colspan> <th rowspan colspan> <thead> <tbody> <tfoot> <caption>

    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 the HTML Living Standard or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

    Tag Description You Type You Get
    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
    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.

    Heading <h1>Title</h1>

    Title

    Heading <h2>Subtitle</h2>

    Subtitle

    Heading <h3>Subtitle three</h3>

    Subtitle three

    Heading <h4>Subtitle four</h4>

    Subtitle four

    Heading <h5>Subtitle five</h5>
    Subtitle five
    Cited <cite>Cited</cite> Cited
    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
    No help provided for tag dt.
    No help provided for tag dd.
    Anchors are used to make links to other pages. <a href="https://ledgersmb.org">LedgerSMB</a> LedgerSMB
    Block quoted <blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>
    Block quoted
    Unordered 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>
    1. First item
    2. Second item
    No help provided for tag img.
    Strong <strong>Strong</strong> Strong
    Emphasized <em>Emphasized</em> Emphasized
    Coded text used to show programming source code <code>Coded</code> Coded
    Preformatted <pre>Preformatted</pre>
    Preformatted
    No help provided for tag li.
    Table <table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>
    Table header
    Table cell
    No help provided for tag tr.
    No help provided for tag td.
    No help provided for tag th.
    No help provided for tag thead.
    No help provided for tag tbody.
    No help provided for tag tfoot.
    No help provided for tag caption.

    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 Description You Type You Get
    Ampersand &amp; &
    Greater than &gt; >
    Less than &lt; <
    Quotation mark &quot; "
  • 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 of blank lines.
  • Syntax highlighting of source code can be enabled with the following tags:

      Generic syntax highlighting tags: <code>, <blockcode>, <pre>.
    • Language specific syntax highlighting tags:<bash> for Bash source code, <cpp> for C++ source code, <js> for Javascript source code, <latex> for LaTeX source code, <perl> for Perl source code

    Options and tips:

    • The language for the generic syntax highlighting tags can be specified with one of the attribute(s): type, lang, language, class. The possible values are: "bash" (for Bash), "cpp" (for C++), "css" (for CSS), "html5" (for HTML5), "javascript" (for Javascript), "js" (for Javascript), "latex" (for LaTeX), "pcre" (for PCRE), "perl" (for Perl), "plsql" (for PL/SQL), "postgresql" (for PostgreSQL), "xml" (for XML), "yaml" (for YAML).
    • The supported tag styles are: <foo>, [foo].
    • Line numbering can be enabled/disabled with the attribute "linenumbers". Possible values are: "off" for no line numbers, "normal" for normal line numbers and "fancy" for fancy line numbers (every nth line number highlighted). The start line number can be specified with the attribute "start", which implicitly enables normal line numbering. For fancy line numbering the interval for the highlighted line numbers can be specified with the attribute "fancy", which implicitly enables fancy line numbering.
    • If the source code between the tags contains a newline (e.g. immediatly after the opening tag), the highlighted source code will be displayed as a code block. Otherwise it will be displayed inline.
    • A title can be added to a code block with the attribute "title".

    Defaults:

    • Default highlighting mode for generic syntax highlighting tags: when no language attribute is specified the code block won't be processed by the GeSHi filter.
    • Default line numbering: no line numbers.

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • 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 of blank lines.