Formatting buttons
These buttons will insert formatting tags at the current cursor position in your comment.You can also select text, click any tag button except Link and the text will be surrounded by the begin and end tags.
The tag buttons you see will depend on how the webmaster has configured the system. If you type a tag that is not allowed into a comment, it will be removed. Some of the more common tags are:
| Button Label | HTML Tag | Effect |
| B | b | bold text |
| I | i | italic text |
| U | u | underlined text |
| S | s | |
| Code | code | monospaced with background color |
| Pre | pre | monospaced, all spacing and line breaks preserved |
| Big | big | large text |
| Small | small | small text |
| Ctr | center | centered text |
| Quote | blockquote | quoted text |
| Link | a | inserts a link to a web page |
| Img | img | inserts a link to an image on the web |
| Image | a | inserts a link to an image on the web |
| — | hr | inserts a horizontal rule (a line) |
| < | none | inserts HTML less than < code |
| > | none | inserts HTML greater than > code |
| & | none | inserts HTML ampersand & code |
|
ul ol li |
ul ol li |
inserts an unordered list tag inserts an ordered (numbered) list tag inserts a list item tag Example:
<ul>
|
| Font | font | Changes text size, face and color:
Size: a number from 1 through 7 Face: a font name Color: an HTML color name or a hexidecimal color number Examples: <font size="2">some text</font>
some text <font face="times new roman" color="red">some text</font>
sometext |
| Some font color names and numbers | |
| aqua | #00FFFF |
| black | #000000 |
| blue | #0000FF |
| fuchsia | #FF00FF |
| gray | #808080 |
| green | #008000 |
| lime | #00FF00 |
| maroon | #800000 |
| navy | #000080 |
| olive | #808000 |
| purple | #800080 |
| red | #FF0000 |
| silver | #C0C0C0 |
| teal | #008080 |
| white | #FFFFFF |
| yellow | #FFFF00 |