What HTML formatting is allowed in news articles?

The following is a list of text formatting codes which can be used in news articles and how to use them.

All tags must have an opening and a closing tag for your formatting to work correctly.

You need to start your sentence with an opening tag <> and when you wish to end your specified formatting style you need to end it with the closing tag </>. Anything between these tags will be displayed in the specified style.

Acronym

You can add popup descriptions with a dotted underline to your text (or links) by using the <acronym> tag, and close using the </acronym> tag, the format for this is the following. <acronym title="popup text"><a href="link Url">link description</a></acronym>

Bold Text

The opening tag for bold is <strong>, and the closing tag is </strong>. You may also use <b>, as the opening tag and </b> as the closing tag. If you do not use the closing tag, then all text will be displayed in bold.

Strike Text

The opening tag for strike is <strike>, and the closing tag is </strike>. You may also use <s>, as the opening tag and </s> as the closing tag. If you do not use the closing tag, then all text will be displayed striked out.

BlockQuote

These are used were you want to indent a piece of text, usually a quote, within other text. You use: <blockquote>My indented text</blockquote>.

Code

This is used when you wish to display a line of code. To do this type <code>, follow by the closing tag </code>.

Italic Text

Otherwise known as emphasis requires the opening tag for <em>, and the closing tag is </em>. You may also use <i>, as the opening tag and </i> as the closing tag. If you do not use the closing tag, then all text will be displayed in Italics.

Underlined Text

The opening tag for underline is <u>, and the closing tag is </u>. If you do not use the closing tag, then all text will be displayed underlined.

Subscript Text

The opening tag for subscript is <sub>, and the closing tag is </sub>. If you do not use the closing tag, then all text will be displayed in subscript.

Superscript Text

The opening tag for superscript is <sup>, and the closing tag is </sup>. If you do not use the closing tag, then all text will be displayed in superscript.

Ordered listings

To make ordered lists you will need to do the following code <ol> which must be ended with the format </ol>, between these two codes you will need to enter <li> which must be ended with the format </li>.

Example

1. 1.) Entry one
2. 2.) Entry two
3. 3.) Entry three

The <li> code must be used for each new numbered entry that you wish to be created.

Un-Ordered listsings

There is also the plain list format, by using <ul> and </ul> to end it as opposed to <ol> and </ol>.

Example

• Entry one
• Entry two
• Entry three

Heading Tags

Such as <h2></h2> and <h3></h3>, may also be used.