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Formatting buttons

These buttons will insert formatting tags at the current cursor position in your comment.

You can also select text, click any tag button except Link and the text will be surrounded by the begin and end tags.

The tag buttons you see will depend on how the webmaster has configured the system. If you type a tag that is not allowed into a comment, it will be removed. The set of all possible tags is:

Button
Label
HTML
Tag

Effect
b b bold text
i i italic text
u u underlined text
s s strike through
code code monospaced with background color
pre pre monospaced, all spacing and line breaks preserved
big big large text
small small small text
ctr center centered text
quote blockquote quoted text
link a inserts a link to a web page
img img inserts a link to an image on the web
image a inserts a link to an image on the web
hr inserts a horizontal rule (a line)
< none inserts a left bracket
> none inserts a right bracket
ul
ol
li
ul
ol
li
inserts an unordered list tag
inserts an ordered (numbered) list tag
inserts a list item tag
Example:
<ul>
  <li>first list item</li>
  <li>second list item</li>
</ul>
Results in:
  • first list item
  • second list item
font font Changes text size, face and color:
Size: a number from 1 through 7
Face: a font name
Color: an HTML color name or a hexidecimal color number
Examples:
<font size="2">some text</font>
some text
<font face="times" color="red">some text</font>
sometext
Some font names and numbers
aqua#00FFFF
black#000000
blue#0000FF
fuchsia#FF00FF
gray#808080
green#008000
lime#00FF00
maroon#800000
navy#000080
olive#808000
purple#800080
red#FF0000
silver#C0C0C0
teal#008080
white#FFFFFF
yellow#FFFF00