How to use HTML in articles

Saturday April 29 2006 01:43

Most HTML tags are available when writing a article but you have to write them inside [ ] tags instead of < >. We've also limited the number of attributes that you can use with your tags, for example you can not use any style tags.

You don't have to think about linebreaks or paragraphs when you write, if you make a line-break we will automatically insert a <br> tag and if you make two line-breaks we will start a new paragraph for you.

Note: In the code examples there are spaces between the square-brackets and the tagname, those should be removed in order to get the code working.

Here are the tags that are currently available:

• Text-Formatting:

  Bold text:
  Code: [ b ]bold text[ /b ]
  Result: bold text

  Italic text:
  Code: [ i ]italic text[ /i ]
  Result: italic text

  Underlined text:
  Code: [ u ]underlined text[ /u ]
  Result: underlined text

  Red text:
  Code: [ red ]red text[ /red ]
  Result: red text

  Superscript text:
  Code: [ sup ]superscript text[ /sup ]
  Result: ^{superscript text}

  Subscript text:
  Code: [ sub ]subscript text[ /sub ]
  Result: _{subscript text}

• Linking:

  Code: [ a href="http://www.dublish.com" ]dublish[ /a ]
  Result: dublish
  Note: Currently all links are opened in a new window
  Attributes: href,name

• Images:

  Code: [ img src="http://www.dublish.com/pics/button.png" ]
  Result:
  Attributes: src,width,height,align
  Note: Attributes must be supplied in the given order!

• Special Tags:

  YouTUBE videos
  Currently you can not upload videos to dublish.com but there are several other sites providing that service, YouTUBE is one of them. On YouTUBE you can upload your video and embedd it on dublish.com if you want to. When embedding a video from YouTUBE, the only thing you need is the code from the video permalink found under the video. If the permalink for your video is for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdwz7QiG0lk then the code you need is rdwz7QiG0lk.
  Code: [ youtube v="rdwz7QiG0lk" ]
  Result:

  Code
  Sometimes you might want to write source code in an article. Then you can use the code-tag and just paste your code, all indents will be maintained.
  Code:
  [ code ]
  class HelloWorld {
  public static void main(String[] args){
  System.out.println("Hello World!");
  }
  }
  [ /code ]
  Result:
  

  		
  class HelloWorld {
  		
     public static void main(String[] args){
  		
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
  		
     }
  		
  }
  		
  

Last Update: Monday May 1 2006 22:07

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