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How to Format Posts & Comments

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Make posts and comments easy on yourself:

  • Links: Open square-bracket [ followed by the text to be linked, followed by the URL, followed by close square bracket ]. Thus, [ Blue Mass Group http:// www.bluemassgroup.com ] comes out as Blue Mass Group (if you remove the spaces I used in my example between the “[” and “]” brackets).
  • Bullets (like this one): < li >
  • You can bold or italicize text by using the < b >text to bold< /b > and < i >text to italicize< /i > tags, respectively (remove the spaces between the < and > brackets).
  • Strikethrough. < del > text to strike < /del > yields text to strike.
  • Quotation. < blockquote > and < /blockquote >:

    Thus ends the lesson.

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    3. I recommend using <em> (emphasis) for italics instead of <i>, and <strong> for bold instead of <b&gt.

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      HTML initially included two “families” of font style tags, the direct “I want this specific style” sort, and the advisory “this is what I mean, use the appropriate style for it” sort.  They had, and pretty much still do have, equivalent effects.  The standard way to present “emphasized” text is to italicize it, and the standard way to present “strong” text is to make it bold.  However, HTML has (thankfully!) evolved away from being a language for expressing both content and appearance.  Appearance has been shifted to CSS (cascading stylesheets), with HTML presenting only content, and advisory information that can be used by browsers and CSS to determine the right style.  As part of this, the older “direct style” tags like <i> and <b> have been removed from newer specifications of HTML.  They’re still supported by all browsers, but deprecated.

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      More simply, for example, <b> means “make this text bold”, while <strong> present this text in the style you use for presenting “strong” text – which, practically, is bold.  I can also imagine situations where people redefine their preferences to make it something else, but <b> would still be bold.

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      P.S. Also, you can use <code> for a monospaced font.

      • I’m sorry to ask what I’m sure is a silly question, but here goes:

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        I want to rate someone’s comment, but when I click on a number it just appears there and nothing happens. I’m afraid to click on “Rate All” for fear of affecting everybody’s rating.

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        After clicking on the number am I supposed to do something else?

    5. When I edited diary posts, I wound up with two posts [urk]:

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      1.  How do I edit and not wind up with a duplicate post;

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      2.  How do I eliminate the duplicate?

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      Thanks

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      Deb
      AmberPaw@aol.com

    7. Under “Races to Watch” on the left of the page how do I set the name of a candidate as a link that goes to the candidate’s website?
      Kathy

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