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You can use HTML tags in your posting to do simple styling of the text -- see the examples below.

Also see: a complete list of supported tags and attributes.

HTML codeResults
Simple Text Formatting

This is some <b>bold</b> text.

Other ways to emphasize text are <i>italics</> and <u>underline.</u>

It's simple to make text <big>bigger</big> or <small>smaller</small>

<blockquote>Text can be indented</blockquote>

Tags can be <b><i>combined</i></b>, but for best results be sure to <s><big>close tags</big></s> in the opposite order they were opened.

You can <font color="red">change</font> the <font color="green">colors</font> of your text.

(Supported colors: black, blue, fuchsia, green, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, teal.)

This is some bold text.

Other ways to emphasize are italics and underline.

It's simple to make text bigger or smaller

Text can be indented.

Tags can be combined, but for best results be sure to close tags in the opposite order they were opened.

You can change the colors of your text.
Line breaks

<p>Text enclosed by the "p" tag is treated as a separate paragraph.</p>
<p>This usually indicates the text should be separated from surrounding text by an extra line.</p>
<p>The "br" tag causes<br>a single line break.</p>

Text enclosed by the "p" tag is treated as a separate paragraph.

This usually indicates the text should be separated from surrounding text by an extra line.

The "br" tag causes
a single line break.
Horizontal Lines

The "hr" tag creates a <hr> horizontal dividing line across the page
The "hr" tag creates a
horizontal dividing line across the page
Headers

The "h1" "h2" "h3" "h4" "h5" and "h6" tags can be used to create <h1>Headers</h1> <h3>of various</h3> <h6>sizes</h>
The "h1" "h2" "h3" "h4" "h5" and "h6" tags can be used to create

Headers

of various

sizes
Unordered lists
Breakfast:
<ul>
    <li>Eggs</li>
    <li>Bacon</li>
    <li>Cap'n Crunch&trade;</li>
</ul>
Breakfast:
  • Eggs
  • Bacon
  • Cap'n Crunch™
Ordered lists
Business Plan:
<ol>
    <li>Collect Underpants</li>
    <li>?</li>
    <li>Profit</li>
</ol>
Business Plan:
  1. Collect Underpants
  2. ?
  3. Profit
Dictionary lists

Per Bierce:
<dl>

<dt>Deliberation</dt>
<dd>The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.</dd>

<dt>Magic</dt>
<dd>An art of converting superstition into coin.</dd>

<dt>Vote</dt>
<dd>The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.</dd>

</dl>
Per Bierce:
Deliberation
The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Magic
An art of converting superstition into coin.
Vote
The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Links to other pages

Creating links to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">external documents</a> is extremely simple.
Creating links to external documents is extremely simple.
Externally-hosted images

Caveat Emptor: <img src="http://www.craigslist.org/about/teamPix/homer.gif">		 Caveat Emptor:craig!
Preformatted text 
<pre>
In Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
</pre>
 
In Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
Tables

<table>
<tr><th>President</th><th>Inauguration</th></tr>
<tr><td>Fillmore</td><td>1850</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pierce</td><td>1853</td></tr>
<tr><td>Buchanan</td><td>1857</td></tr>
</table>
PresidentInauguration
Fillmore 1850
Pierce 1853
Buchanan 1857
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