The list will look like this:

1. item one
2. item two
3. item three

Create definition lists

Oranges

A reddish yellow tropical fruit about the size of an apple. A member of the citrus fruit family. In the United States, oranges are grown primarily in the states of Florida and California.

Apples

Technically a pome, apples are an orange-sized fruit, usually in varying shades and mixtures of red, yellow, and green. In the United States, apples are grown primarily in the northern states, near bodies of water.

This is the same list, with the tags visible:

Headers

will look like this:

Level one header

Level two header

Level three header

Level four header

Level five header

Level six header

Centering text

This line:

will appear like this:

If more than one line of text is enclosed in the tags, all enclosed lines will be centered.

Bold and italics

will appear as:

Bold text

will appear as:

Italic text

will appear as:

Bold Italics

Note: It is very important that you close the tags in the same order that you opened them. In other words, in the last example, it was important that I closed the "Italics" tag before I closed the "Bold" tag (put the < /i > before the < /b > ).

Paragraph and line breaks

Web browsers do not respect the way you have formatted your text. They ignore carriage returns and line feeds. Unless given specific instruction, your text will be fitted to the line length of the browser.

Inserting a < br > tag will cause the current line to end and a new one to start. Inserting a < p > tag will cause the current line to end, a blank line to be inserted, and a new line to start.

Preformatted text

There are times when it is nice to have your text appear just the way you have typed it. You can do this by placing a < PRE > tag at the beginning of the passage, and a < /PRE > tag at the end. Your text will appear in a fixed-pitch (typewriter) font and retain any tabs, line feeds, multiple spaces, etc. that you may have included. For example:

There was a young man from Boston

      who bought himself a new Austin.

		 He had room for his lass and a gallon of gas

			  but his tie hung out and he lost 'em.

Make things blink

The code

I am blinking!

Be careful not to overdo it with this one!

Creating a jump within your document

1. INSERT A TARGET at the point to which you want the link to jump. A target looks like this:

   < a name="target_name_here" >

2. INSERT A LINK to be clicked to cause the jump. The link looks like this:

   < a href="#target_name_here" > hotlink_text

Jump to another file on the same system

If the file is in the same directory as the calling file, it is only necessary to specify the filename. If the file being called is in a different directory, give the "relative path and filename". For example, if the calling file is in a directory called "schmoo" and the called file is named "doom.gif" and is in "schmoo/graphics", the tag would be written < a href="graphics/doom.gif" > . If the calling file were in "schmoo/graphics" and the called file were in "schmoo", the tag would be written < a href="../doom.gif" > I have placed a file called "doom.gif" in the same directory as the file you are currently reading. This file can be opened with the following hotlink:

Try out this hotlink (below), then use the "back" key on your browser to return to this document.

Jump to a document on another system

will take you to a page called "Falcone's Aerosmith Page" located at http://geocities.datacellar.net/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1855/index.html. You will find a link on that page to return you here, or use the "back" button on your browser. Try it!

Placing graphic images on your pages

This tag will cause a graphic file named "doom.gif", which is in the same directory as the file you are reading to be displayed in the position that it would appear if it were text, like this:

You can control the position of the image. The most basic way to do this is to treat it as text. For example, surrounding the image tag with center tags gives this:

gives this display:

Change font style of text.