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| Separated Parenting Access & Resource Center
"Keeping Families Connected"
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HTML Tricks In Messages
It's easy to make bold text, italic text and colored
text in your messages with the use of just a few simple HTML "tags".
Note that the HTML "tags" do not have to be on a line by themselves, we
show them that way just for the sake of clarity.
Making Bold Text:
To make bold text, use the [B] starting tag where you want the bolding to start,
and the [/B] ending tag where you want the bolding to stop.
For example:
[B]
The text here between the tags will show up as bold.
[/B]
Making Italic Text:
To make italic text, use the [EM] starting tag where you want the italics to start,
and the [/EM] ending tag where you want the italics to stop.
For example:
[EM]
The text here between the tags will show up as italicized.
[/EM]
Making Colored Text:
To make colored text, use the [FONT COLOR="blue"] starting tag where
you want the color to start, and the [/FONT] ending tag where you want the color to stop.
For example:
[FONT COLOR="blue"]
The text here between the tags will show
up as blue.
[/FONT]
Legal colors to use are: blue, red, green, black, white, magenta, and yellow. There are ways to specify
thousands of other more subtle shades, but we're not going to cover that here.
Making Large Text:
To make large text, use the [FONT SIZE="+X"] starting tag where
you want the large text to start, and the [/FONT] ending tag where you want the text to
return to normal. The "X" in the FONT tag can range from 1 to 5, and must be preceded by a
plus sign (+).
For example:
[FONT SIZE="+2"]
The text here between the tags will be larger
than normal.
[/FONT]
Combining Tags:
Finally, tags may be combined so as to apply multiple effects to the text. For example:
[FONT SIZE="+2" COLOR="red"] [EM]
Makes large, red, italic text.
[/EM] [/FONT]
Notice that you only need one ending [/FONT] tag, and that the tags are "nested", that
is, they start and end in order.
Making underlined text:
Use the [U] tag to start the underlining and the
[/U] to end the undelining.
[U]This text will be underlined. [/U]
NOTE: Aovid using underlined text unless it's a must. Usually underlined text
indicates a link, and people will click away on it like crazy expecting it to take them somewhere.
Placing URL's or links in your messages:
Just type out the URL with a fully-qualified header, starting with [A HREF=". For example:
[A HREF="/custody/boards.php"]
Don't forget the quotes, they have to appear just as shown. Then type the text you want seen in the link and end it with
the URL closing tag [/A], for example:
[A HREF="/custody/boards.php"]The SPARC Site[/A]
This will make a link that appears like this:
The SPARC Site
Displaying Images:
To place an image in your message, use the [IMG SRC="... ] tag and specify the URL
of the image in place of the "...", as in this example:
[IMG SRC="http://www.deltabravo.net/source/logo.gif" border=0]
This will produce this image:  with no
unsightly border around it because we were clever enough to use the border=0 modifier.
One additional note: To display an image, you must first upload the image to the web. You
cannot display an image stored on your hard drive, it must available on a web-server somewhere.
Centering Text:
To center text or images in your message, use the [CENTER] and [/CENTER] tags like this:
[CENTER]Text between these tags will be centered on the page.[/CENTER]
Scrolling Text:
To make a "marquee", or scrolling text, enclose the test to be scrolled between
the [MARQUEE] and [/MARQUEE] tags as like this:
[MARQUEE] This text will scroll....[/MARQUEE]
This will produce this effect:
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Copying Text and Web Pages:
To copy an entire web page (or a portion of a page) into your message, follow these steps:
- View the source of the page. Do this by right-clicking and selecting 'View Source', or by selecting 'View' and then 'Source' from the 'View' menu.
- Highlight and copy the section that you want to reproduce, then paste it into a blank NotePad screen (or other text editor).
- Do a 'Search and replace' on the text. Replace all < symbols with [.
- Do another 'Search and replace' on the text. Replace all > symbols with ].
- In some cases we've found that you'll need to find references to any images and make them start on a new line, all by themselves. Look for the [img... tags, put your cursor at the start of the tag and press [RETURN] or [ENTER].
- Copy and paste the text into the post window, then Preview the post. Make any required adjustments, then Preview the post again. Repeat until the post appears correctly.
- When everything looks right, click Post message.
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