How do I write "bold" letters in notes?

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Tinkievinkie
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How do I write "bold" letters in notes?

Postby Tinkievinkie » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:23 am

First of all: excuse my english, I hope I wont write to strange...javascript:emoticon(':wink:')

You can see the question...

How do I write "bold" or "underlined" texts if I am writing a note? :wink:
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Postby wulf » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:19 am

Use HTML tags. For example <strong>...</strong> (or <b>...</b>, though I prefer the "semantic markup" way of doing things) around some text will make it stand out.

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Postby Tinkievinkie » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:09 pm

Where can I find these "HTML tags"?
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Postby Jetlag » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:27 pm

there's a quick reference list here:

http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/faq/html-tags.html

The most useful ones will be under the section "basic text". Use the opening tag, then what you want to be altered, then the closing tag, eg:

<b> hello </b> everyone

will become

hello everyone
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Postby Nick » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:49 am

Actually, since you put a space before and after the tag it would be;

hello everyone
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Postby Nick » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:49 am

Hrm... seems you can't put two spaces in a row on the forum. Strange.
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Postby mortaine » Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:45 am

I don't know about multiple spaces in how the forum parses things, but if you don't use a no-break character, HTML won't display two spaces in a row-- it just ignores the extras.
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Postby wichita » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:46 am

<b>test &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; test</b>

Doesn't look like that works. :?
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Postby mortaine » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:06 am

OK, that's just proof that the forum strips the nbsp character.

However, the code BBCode tag seems to allow multiple spaces:

Code: Select all

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