Compose tips
input formats:
- Filtered HTML:
- Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <p> <span> <img> <div> <pp_img> <pp_media> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <br> <blockquote> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th> <td>
This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.
For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.
Tag Description You Type You Get Anchors are used to make links to other pages. <a href="http://news.ncbs.res.in/archivednews">NCBS news</a>NCBS news Emphasized <em>Emphasized</em>Emphasized Strong <strong>Strong</strong>Strong Cited <cite>Cited</cite>Cited Coded text used to show programming source code <code>Coded</code>CodedUnordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>- First item
- Second item
Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>- First item
- Second item
Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description. <dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>- First term
- First definition
- Second term
- Second definition
By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. <p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>Paragraph one.
Paragraph two.
No help provided for tag span. No help provided for tag img. No help provided for tag div. No help provided for tag pp. No help provided for tag pp. Header <h2>Subtitle</h2>Subtitle
Header <h3>Subtitle three</h3>Subtitle three
Header <h4>Subtitle four</h4>Subtitle four
Header <h5>Subtitle five</h5>Subtitle five
Header <h6>Subtitle six</h6>Subtitle six
By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility Text with <br />line breakText with
line breakBlock quoted <blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>Block quoted
Table <table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>Table header Table cell No help provided for tag tbody. Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.
If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like & for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:
Character Description You Type You Get Ampersand && Greater than >> Less than << Quotation mark "" Insert an image node with <pp_img type="node" nid="nid" preset="preset" title="title" align="align" caption="caption" link="link" target="target" > </pp_img>.
Insert an image url with <pp_img type="url" src="src" width="width" height="height" title="title" align="align" caption="caption" link="link" target="target" > </pp_img>.
Insert a media node with <pp_media type="node" nid="nid" width="width" height="height" title="title" align="align" caption="caption" > </pp_media>.
Notes: There must be a space between opening and closing tags, otherwise the rich editor may interfere. The double quotes are necessary.
Attribute Description Applies to Examples type Type All "node", "url" nid Node number Image node, media node "1" preset Image preset Image node "image", "thumbnail", "small" teaser Teaser Image Image node "0", "1" src Image url Image url "http://www.example.com/image.jpg" width Width Image url, media node "300" height Height Image url, media node "100" title Title Image node, image url "Sample title" align Alignment All "left", "right", "center", "none" caption Caption All "Sample caption" link link Image node, image url "http://www.example.com/index.html" target target window Image node, image url "", "_blank"
- Full HTML:
- Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Insert an image node with <pp_img type="node" nid="nid" preset="preset" title="title" align="align" caption="caption" link="link" target="target" > </pp_img>.
Insert an image url with <pp_img type="url" src="src" width="width" height="height" title="title" align="align" caption="caption" link="link" target="target" > </pp_img>.
Insert a media node with <pp_media type="node" nid="nid" width="width" height="height" title="title" align="align" caption="caption" > </pp_media>.
Notes: There must be a space between opening and closing tags, otherwise the rich editor may interfere. The double quotes are necessary.
Attribute Description Applies to Examples type Type All "node", "url" nid Node number Image node, media node "1" preset Image preset Image node "image", "thumbnail", "small" teaser Teaser Image Image node "0", "1" src Image url Image url "http://www.example.com/image.jpg" width Width Image url, media node "300" height Height Image url, media node "100" title Title Image node, image url "Sample title" align Alignment All "left", "right", "center", "none" caption Caption All "Sample caption" link link Image node, image url "http://www.example.com/index.html" target target window Image node, image url "", "_blank"
