HTML Formatting

There are places on Antiques-Internet.com where you are allowed to enter HTML to add extra formatting to the text you enter. This page describes a few of the simple things you can do to make your text more interesting and more visually appealing.

HTML uses "tags" embedded in your text to tell the browser what to do. These tags are letters or words enclosed in angle brackets, for example <BR> tells the browser to "break" (start a new line).

Here are a few simple HTML rules, followed by some examples of simple things you can do to format your text.

1. HTML ignores line breaks and carriage returns. It only starts a new line when it runs out of space on the current line or encounters a "tag" that starts a new line. So, you should use the <BR> and <P> tags to start a new line or start a new paragraph, respectively.
2. Some tags are "singular" (occur alone) as those mentioned above, and others are "paired" (occur in open/close pairs). The pairs consist of two tags containing the same letters, except the closing tag has a forward slash before the letters. For example, to underline a word or phrase you would enclose the text between an open/close pair of "underline" tags as follows: <U>text</U> will produce text on the screen.