Paragraph Breaks in questions?

[shybearuk]

Hiow can I get a new line in an answer I'm posting? I sometimes want to break my answer into sections, but no matter how many times I press Enter, it all ends up stuck together. I'm assuming there's a HTML tag for this, so what can I do?

[Ewood27]

Not all HTML tags work in AB. I'm no expert, but the ones I have found that do work are these (you must type < and > where I have shown [ and ])
[br]to give a "line break".
[b] to give bold, which must be closed off with [/b] when finished.
[i] for italics, which again must be closed off with [/i].
[u] (closed off with [/u]) to give underline.
There is an HTML tag [p] which gives a blank line too, as for a new paragraph, but that does not work in AB.
I hope that helps.

[j2buttonsw]

I think you use html code < p > at the beginning of the paragraph and < /p > at the end (remove the spaces either side of the < > signs.

[shybearuk]

Thank you both. I shall try them now :)

This is using J2B's method

And this
is using Ewood's, so let's see how it goes...

[shybearuk]

Woohoo, both work

Thank you, both :)

[darth vader]

i would be interested to hear from ewood27 as to which tags cannot be used - the tag is a piece of formatting directive for your local machine's browser so it's all down to what your browser understands. try [marquee] with [/marquee] for funny effects
see what i mean?
the only difficult ones are links to images as you can't upload images to AB of course

[answerbok]

Let's not start all that again!
:-)

[Ewood27]

Darth, the key phrase in my answer was "I'm no expert".
I first started using HTML in the now defunct Jeeves Answerpoint forum, in which one had to use HTML code to "call" a URL. When I found that didn't work in AB I rather gave up, then tentatively came back to the limited set of codes I mentioned.
I never did get round to playing with the more fancy codes like "marquee", fonts, colours and the rest. Maybe they work, maybe they don't. One can't edit one's boo-boos in AB, though, so I'm reluctant to try something that may turn out just messy.
I'd be interested to know which codes do work.

[coggles]

I'm not trying to be funny Shybearuk, but I thought you taught I.T....?

[shybearuk]

Yes, I do, coggles, but I don't teach HTML. To be frank, most of my clients probably couldn't even spell HTML. ;)

I teach a very limited section of stuff about how to get started on PCs. How to get an e-mail address, format documents in Word, surf the 'net, things like that. I can usually find my way around most things, but HTML is one of those things I've not had much inclination to look for, but I DO like to make my questions/answers look tidy :)

[PaulB]

:o)

[shybearuk]

Are you following me, PaulB? ;o)

[darth vader]

FYI
ways to find the HTML code on how to do something: 1) find a page with a feature you like, goto "view", "source" and dig out the corresponding HTML tags written to make that feature 2) download a freeware HTML editor from the web (there's squillions) and use that to glean the info. Happy editing!

[coggles]

OOPS, sorry shybearuk, I got the wrong end of the stick!

[jorton]

Hello, just trying

I will now see if it works

[jorton]

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