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Allowed HTML tags: <a> <i> <b> <u> <ul> <li> <ol> <p> <br> <strong> <em> <span> <object> <embed> <param> <div> <img> <h1> <h2>
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 W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.
Tag Description You Type You Get Anchors are used to make links to other pages. <a href="http://ourvoice.legion.org">The American Legion - Our Voice</a>The American Legion - Our Voice Italicized <i>Italicized</i>Italicized Bolded <b>Bolded</b>Bolded 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
Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>- First item
- Second item
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.
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 breakText with
line breakStrong <strong>Strong</strong>Strong Emphasized <em>Emphasized</em>Emphasized No help provided for tag span. No help provided for tag object. No help provided for tag embed. No help provided for tag param. No help provided for tag div. No help provided for tag img. Header <h1>Title</h1>Title
Header <h2>Subtitle</h2>Subtitle
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 Description You Type You Get Ampersand && Greater than >> Less than << Quotation mark "" - If you include a word in your post that's filtered (usually foul language), it will be replaced by the filtered version of the word.