The day is coming when blogs will have menus for fancying up text in your comments on a blog. But, for 99% of blogs, that day is not here, yet. In the mean time, there are some simple codes one can use to give comments some zip and clarity for readers. Below are the most common and effectively used HTML codes:
To make text bold, italicized, or underlined as below, use the tags which follow:
bold italicize underline
<strong>bold</strong>
<em>italicize</em>
<u>underline</u>
Note: underlining is NOT recommended on a webpage as it is reserved for hot links to other places
Also, these can be used together: bold italics
<strong><em>bold
italics</em></strong>
Note the order! First tag used in front, is the last tag used to close.
To insert an internet address making your text a hot link - Taft
College Distance Learning Home
<a href="http://www.taftcollege.edu/dl/index.html">Taft
College Distance Learning Home</a>
Do not forget that closing tag when hot linking a URL or internet address.
To start a paragraph section use <p>Paragraph of stuff</p>
To force a line break within a paragraph use <br />
To use a horizontal line to break up sections <hr />
BlockQuotes. To quote someone else's text so that it is indented from your own text, use the blockquote tags.
This text is blockquoted.
<blockquote>This text is blockquoted</blockquote>
Good! Also, I like to use b and /b
for bold strong , /strong (angle brackets omitted).
And i and /i also works for italicized.
And for bullets, there's li and /li
where li is at the beginning, and /li is at the end of each line.
And to indent, use: ul and /ul
For example...
d.a.n, thank you for the additional tips.
Just for clarification, the UL tags indent the list from the regular text in the comment.
I make a lot of use of the B tags too. Quick and easy.