(info page) Crash Course In HTML [Phoenix]
2006-05-27 -- 7:14 p.m.

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Okay, so not everyone is a HTML wiz, in fact, most people only know a couple tags, and many people don't know a thing about it. So here are some basics you can use in your entries at the circle or anywhere else. The first thing I'm going to show you is how to make something bold.

bold

<b>bold</b>

If you were to copy and paste what's in the box above you would have the word "bold" in bold. Obviously that's an easy one, it's just one letter, and it's a B for BOLD.

Now to make something italics works exactly the same way.

This is Italic

<i>This is Italic</i> </texarea> </p><p>And the same goes for underlined text.</p><p><u>Underlined Text</u></p><p><textarea> <u>Underlined Text</u>

So, for underline, italic, and bold, just use the letter in < > to make what are called "tags."

This box that I'm writing in is the blockquote. The blockquote tag is easy to remember. It's simply blockquote as shown below.

<blockquote> This is in a blockquote. </blockquote>

You can still use italic, bold, and underline within a blockquote. You can also use more than one tag like this. Below is an example of all of the tags we've learned so far:

<blockquote>Hi, my name is <b>Phoenix</b> and I <i>like</i> this <u>boy</u> named <b><i>Travanti</i>. We've been together for <u>over an entire <i>year</i>.</u></b></blockquote>

What you are seeing in the box above would look like this:

Hi, my name is Phoenix and I like this boy named Travanti. We've been together for over an entire year.

Now let's learn a new tag. It's the line tag. This tag makes a line like you see above and is really easy.

<hr>

That's how to make a line! Easy huh? Now if you don't want the line to go all the way across you can make different lengths by setting a percent.

You see the line above goes 60% of the way across?

<br><hr width=60%><br>

You can also change the color. Look at this line;

Using colors can be tricky because you need to know the code of letters and numbers for the color you want. To look up color codes go to google.com, click "images" for an image search and type "html color chart" and look at the very first results. Any of those websites will do. They show the color codes for basically all the colors.

<hr width=60% noshade color=#FF3399>

The above code in the box is the code I used to make the previous line. You notice how the color is #FF3399 which is a code.

You can also change the color of your text with a simple tag.

<font color="#3399FF">Colored Text</font color>

Here is a really simple one, the very first tag I learned.

<center>This text is centered.</center>

Don't forget those closing tags. If you start a tag of any kind and forget to close it than the whole rest of your entry will be in that tag. And it will look retarded.