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Paragraph Breaks in questions?
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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?
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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.
[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.
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
the only difficult ones are links to images as you can't upload images to AB of course
the only difficult ones are links to images as you can't upload images to AB of course
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.
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.
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 :)
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 :)
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!
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!
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