HTML TIPS How to stylize your messages in the Chat Room
HTML tags may be used in the Chat Room to creatively stylize your messages,
they consist of a left angle bracket (<), (a ``less than'' symbol
to mathematicians), followed by name of the tag and closed by a right
angular bracket (>). Tags are usually paired, e.g. <H1>
Hello
</H1>. The ending tag looks just like the starting tag except
a slash (/) precedes the text within the brackets. In the example, <
H1> tells the Web browser to start formatting a level-one heading;
</H1> tells the browser that the heading is complete.
One exception to the pairing rule is the <P> tag.
There is no such thing as </P>. NOTE: HTML is not case sensitive.
<center> is equivalent to <CENTER> or <CeNtEr>.
Not all tags are supported by all World Wide Web browsers.
If someones browser does not support a tag, it will just ignore it.
1) To make your text BOLD use these tags. <B>YOUR TEXT HERE</B>.
2) For italics use these tags. <I>YOUR TEXT HERE</I>
3) To force a line break use <BR> (use two for a blank line)
4) To change the size of your text there are two ways.
The First Way
<FONT SIZE=1>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=2>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=3>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=4>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=5>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=6>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=7>YOUR TEXT HERE
Note: The nornal size of your text is FONT SIZE=3.
The Secound Way
<H6>YOUR TEXT HERE</H6>
<H5>YOUR TEXT HERE</H5>
<H4>YOUR TEXT HERE</H4>
<H3>YOUR TEXT HERE</H3>
<H2>YOUR TEXT HERE</H2>
<H1>YOUR TEXT HERE</H1>
5) To put a small circle at the beginning of your text use <LI>
YOUR TEXT HERE note: this forces a new line
6) To put a small square at the beginning of your text use <LI type=square>
YOUR TEXT HERE note: this forces a new line
7) To center your text do this...
<CENTER>YOUR TEXT HERE</CENTER>
8) This is how to make lines to divide your text. For a single width line that spans the length of the screen use <HR>
This is how to make lines of different thickness .
<HR SIZE=1>
<HR SIZE=2>
<HR SIZE=3>
<HR SIZE=4>
<HR SIZE=5>
<HR SIZE=6>
<HR SIZE=7>
<HR SIZE=8>
<HR SIZE=9>
<HR SIZE=10>
9) To put a border around your text you can use table tags like this. <table border=10><tr><th colspan=1><font size=5>YOUR TEXT HERE</th></tr></table>
notes: ^M
a) You can change the size of your text by changing the font size.
b) You can also change the size of the border by
changing the border= to a different number.
This is alot of typing so it is best to use the copy and paste commands under your Edit menu choice.
YOUR CREATIVE MESSAGE HERE
10)
To change the color of your text.............
<font color=red>RED TEXT</font>
<font color=yellow>YELLOW TEXT</font>
<font color=blue>BLUE TEXT<>
<font color=green>GREEN TEXT<>
To Post a pic!
You can post any picture that is on the web, if you know the "URL" Universal Resource Locator, for example:
Type this line:
<IMG SRC="http://www.whatever.com/picture.jpg">
.jpg is one of the two types of file extentions used to represent still pictures, the other is .gif
For quicker loading in of pictures, it is advised that you try to keep the size of the picture files
under 30k. Also to avoid unwanted pix, you can always use the esc button to stop them from loading in, while
still getting all the messages!
To return to the Chat Room hit the BACK button on your Browser