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Tags used in writing this blog

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2011-11-12 11:30:07 - Graham Ellis

This blog has been running for a very long time ... and so some of the tags I use are a bit out of date old fashioned. These days, our scripts tidy up / convert many of the tags when old articles are called up from archives but we still maintain the blog using the older stuff. For the sake of my proofreaders, here are the commonly used tags and special characters.

• Tags

<i> to </i> for italic
<b> to </b> for bold
<u> to </u> for underline
<s> to </s> for strinkethrough

<code> to </code> for fixed width font for source examples
<font color=xxxx> to </font> for text colour - examples in this old post
<a href=xxxxx target=zzz> to </a> for a link
<img src=xxxx width=xxx border=x hspace=xx align=left /> for an image
<br clear=all /> to start a fresh block after an image

<table><tr> ... </tr></table> (more attricbutes are used here)
<th> ... </th> table header cell
<td> ... </td> table data cell

• Special characters

&amp; ampasand
&lt; less than
&nbsp; non-break space
&bull; bullet
&pound; pound sign
&copy; copyright symbol