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  • Allowed HTML tags: <br> <p> <h2 id> <h3 id> <h4 id> <h5 id> <h6 id> <a class="fancy button ghost" hreflang href data-entity-type data-entity-uuid data-entity-substitution> <cite> <dl> <dt> <dd> <blockquote cite> <ul type> <ol type start> <strong> <em> <code> <li> <table> <tr> <td rowspan colspan> <th rowspan colspan> <thead> <tbody> <tfoot> <caption> <drupal-media data-entity-type data-entity-uuid alt data-caption data-align> <drupal-entity alt title data-align data-caption data-entity-embed-display data-entity-embed-display-settings data-view-mode data-entity-uuid data-langcode data-embed-button="alert logo media pullquote" data-entity-type="alerts media collection_item">

    This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

    For more information see the HTML Living Standard or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

    Tag Description You Type You Get
    By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility Text with <br />line break Text with
    line break
    By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. <p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>

    Paragraph one.

    Paragraph two.
    Heading <h2>Subtitle</h2>

    Subtitle
    Heading <h3>Subtitle three</h3>

    Subtitle three
    Heading <h4>Subtitle four</h4>

    Subtitle four
    Heading <h5>Subtitle five</h5>
    Subtitle five
    Heading <h6>Subtitle six</h6>
    Subtitle six
    Anchors are used to make links to other pages. <a href="https://online.odu.edu">ODUGlobal</a> ODUGlobal
    Cited <cite>Cited</cite> Cited
    Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description. <dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>
    First term
    First definition
    Second term
    Second definition
    No help provided for tag dt.
    No help provided for tag dd.
    Block quoted <blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>
    Block quoted
    Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>
    • First item
    • Second item
    Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item <ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>
    1. First item
    2. Second item
    Strong <strong>Strong</strong> Strong
    Emphasized <em>Emphasized</em> Emphasized
    Coded text used to show programming source code <code>Coded</code> Coded
    No help provided for tag li.
    Table <table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>
    Table header
    Table cell
    No help provided for tag tr.
    No help provided for tag td.
    No help provided for tag th.
    No help provided for tag thead.
    No help provided for tag tbody.
    No help provided for tag tfoot.
    No help provided for tag caption.
    No help provided for tag drupal.
    No help provided for tag drupal.

    Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

    If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

    Character Description You Type You Get
    Ampersand &amp; &
    Greater than &gt; >
    Less than &lt; <
    Quotation mark &quot; "
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Adds alignment to embeded images.

  • You can align images, videos, blockquotes and so on to the left, right or center. Examples:

    • Align an image to the left: <img src="" data-align="left" />
    • Align an image to the center: <img src="" data-align="center" />
    • Align an image to the right: <img src="" data-align="right" />
    • … and you can apply this to other elements as well: <video src="" data-align="center" />

  • You can caption images, videos, blockquotes, and so on. Examples:

    • <img src="" data-caption="This is a caption" />
    • <video src="" data-caption="The Drupal Dance" />
    • <blockquote data-caption="Dries Buytaert">Drupal is awesome!</blockquote>
    • <code data-caption="Hello world in JavaScript.">alert("Hello world!");</code>

  • You can embed entities. Additional properties can be added to the embed tag like data-caption and data-align if supported. Example:

    <drupal-entity data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="07bf3a2e-1941-4a44-9b02-2d1d7a41ec0e" data-view-mode="teaser" />

  • You can embed media items:

    • Choose which media item to embed: <drupal-media data-entity-uuid="07bf3a2e-1941-4a44-9b02-2d1d7a41ec0e" />
    • Optionally also choose a view mode: data-view-mode="tiny_embed", otherwise the default view mode is used.
    • The data-entity-type="media" attribute is required for consistency.

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple of blank lines.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.