HILCHOS MARKUP

The hilchos of HTML markup
[By Dovbear commenter Yus, here: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/5114975741916252412/?src=hsr#421099 which is the comment string for this post: http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2007/07/truth-shmooth.html]

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To bolden, the b is in between the carats.

Correction; not carats (^), but rather less than and greater than < > symbols. HTML markup, that is the portion of the text which is not actually text but rather dictates how the text appears is always bracketed by <>. This markup in turn brackets the actual text which it marks up as follows:

<>afgsdfgsfgs< /i >

(In actuality, spaces are not embedded in the markup. I just did it that way for illustrative purposes. Otherwise, you'd just se the effect of the markup, and not the markup itself.)

In the following example the <> notation begins the markup block and the < /x > notation closes it. If you combine markup directives, nest them, do not overlap them.

Good: < x > < y >aasdfasdfa < /y > < /x >

Bad: < x > < y >aasdfasdfa < /x > < /y >

< i >Italics< /i >
< b >Bold< /b >
< b >< i >Bold Italics< /i >< /b >

Italics
Bold
Bold Italics

All you ever wanted to know about markup, but were afraid to ask!

Yus 07.18.07 - 8:02 pm #

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Seriously though, that was way better than my explanation. I am in awe.