Compose tips

• Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

• Allowed HTML tags: <i> <b> <a> <em> <strong> <small> <big> <cite> <code> <img> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <tbody> <th> <table> <caption> <colgroup> <col> <thead> <tfoot> <br> <tr> <table> <td> <span> <p> <h1> <h1> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <hr> <!--> <ins> <del> <kbd> <quote> <blockquote>

  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
  Italicized	<i>Italicized</i>	Italicized
  Bolded	<b>Bolded</b>	Bolded
  Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	<a href="http://www.linuxchinese.com">Linux 中文网</a>	Linux 中文网
  Emphasized	<em>Emphasized</em>	Emphasized
  Strong	<strong>Strong</strong>	Strong
  No help provided for tag small.
  No help provided for tag big.
  Cited	<cite>Cited</cite>	Cited
  Coded text used to show programming source code	<code>Coded</code>	Coded
  No help provided for tag img.
  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
  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 tbody.
  Table	<table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>	Table header Table cell
  No help provided for tag caption.
  No help provided for tag colgroup.
  No help provided for tag col.
  No help provided for tag thead.
  No help provided for tag tfoot.
  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
  Table	<table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>	Table header Table cell
  No help provided for tag span.
  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.
  Header	<h1>Title</h1>	Title
  Header	<h1>Title</h1>	Title
  Header	<h1>Title</h1>	Title
  Header	<h2>Subtitle</h2>	Subtitle
  Header	<h3>Subtitle three</h3>	Subtitle three
  Header	<h4>Subtitle four</h4>	Subtitle four
  Header	<h5>Subtitle five</h5>	Subtitle five
  No help provided for tag hr.
  Inserted	<ins>Inserted</ins>	Inserted
  Deleted	<del>Deleted</del>	Deleted
  No help provided for tag kbd.
  No help provided for tag quote.
  Block quoted	<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>	Block quoted

  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	&	&
  Greater than	>	>
  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 blank lines.