Bolding text? Line breaks?

zhenlijiang
 June 10, 2010, 05:49 AM posted in General Discussion

Since we're now expected to have some fluency in HTML if we want to insert images in our Replies to others or bold or color or italicize text, I've been going to this source (thanks to Orangina) for help. http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm
When the style changes that made this adjustment necessary were first introduced all the HTML tags from there that I used were working fine; I could italicize, bold and insert line breaks. Then after some time, bolding and line breaks inexplicably stopped working. Anyone know why? Italicizing still works. Could we be given a simple tutorial in HTML? I'd really like to know how to insert line breaks if nothing at all else.

And it's strange, how we have none of those tools when we write a post originally, but once we go in to edit already-published posts, then we get the wonderful toolbar above the text box ...

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catherinem
 June 10, 2010, 07:28 AM

for bold: <strong>text</strong>

for italics: <em>text</em>

for links: <a href="URL">link title</a>

for paragraphs: <p>   </p>

line break: <br>

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zhenlijiang

Testing now.OK let's see if line break miraculously works.

See, line break does not work. I knew this tag and used it for awhile as I said, but one day it just stopped working. Bolding used to work with "b" but now I will use "strong", thank you Catherine.