You can use HTML tags in your posting to do simple styling of the text -- see the examples below.

Also see: a complete list of supported tags and attributes.

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Simple Text Formatting

This is some <b>bold</b> text.

Other ways to emphasize text are <i>italics</> and <u>underline.</u>

Text can also be made <s>strikethrough</s>

It's simple to make text <big>bigger</big> or <small>smaller</small>

<center>Text can be centered...</center>

<blockquote>...or indented</blockquote>

Tags can be <b><i>combined</i></b>, but for best results be sure to <s><big>close tags</big></s> in the opposite order they were opened.

You can <font color="red">change</font> the <font color="green">colors</font> of your text.

(Supported colors: black, blue, fuchsia, green, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, teal.)

This is some bold text.

Other ways to emphasize are italics and underline.

Text can also be made ~~strikethrough~~

It's simple to make text bigger or smaller

Text can be centered...

...or indented

Tags can be combined, but for best results be sure to ~~close tags~~ in the opposite order they were opened.

You can change the colors of your text.

Line breaks

<p>Text enclosed by the "p" tag is treated as a separate paragraph.</p>
<p>This usually indicates the text should be separated from surrounding text by an extra line.</p>
<p>The "br" tag causes<br>a single line break.</p>

Text enclosed by the "p" tag is treated as a separate paragraph.

This usually indicates the text should be separated from surrounding text by an extra line.

The "br" tag causes
a single line break.

Horizontal Lines

The "hr" tag creates a <hr> horizontal dividing line across the page

The "hr" tag creates a

horizontal dividing line across the page

Headers

The "h1" "h2" "h3" "h4" "h5" and "h6" tags can be used to create <h1>Headers</h1> <h3>of various</h3> <h6>sizes</h>

The "h1" "h2" "h3" "h4" "h5" and "h6" tags can be used to create

Headers

of various

sizes

Unordered lists

Breakfast:
<ul>
    <li>Eggs</li>
    <li>Bacon</li>
    <li>Cap'n Crunch&trade;</li>
</ul>

Breakfast:

Eggs
Bacon
Cap'n Crunch™

Ordered lists

Business Plan:
<ol>
    <li>Collect Underpants</li>
    <li>?</li>
    <li>Profit</li>
</ol>

Business Plan:

Collect Underpants
?
Profit

Dictionary lists

Per Bierce:
<dl>

<dt>Deliberation</dt>
<dd>The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.</dd>

<dt>Magic</dt>
<dd>An art of converting superstition into coin.</dd>

<dt>Vote</dt>
<dd>The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.</dd>

</dl>

Per Bierce:

Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin.
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Links to other pages

Creating links to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">external documents</a> is extremely simple.

Creating links to external documents is extremely simple.

Externally-hosted images

Caveat Emptor: <img src="http://www.craigslist.org/about/teamPix/homer.gif">

Caveat Emptor: craig!

Preformatted text

<pre>
In Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
</pre>

In Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

Tables

<table>
<tr><th>President</th><th>Inauguration</th></tr>
<tr><td>Fillmore</td><td>1850</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pierce</td><td>1853</td></tr>
<tr><td>Buchanan</td><td>1857</td></tr>
</table>

President	Inauguration
Fillmore	1850
Pierce	1853
Buchanan	1857

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