A simple example.

This is a simple HTML document. This is the first paragraph.

This is the second paragraph. This is a word in italics. This is a word in bold. Here is an inlined GIF image: myimage.gif.

This is the third paragraph. Here is a hypertext link from the word foo to a document called "subdir/myfile.html".

A second-level header.

Here is a section of text that should show up in a fixed-width font (as if it were a computer listing or a verse of poetry):

        The cat in the hat
        fell to the ground and went splat.

This is a bulleted list with two items:

First item goes here.
Second item goes here.

This is the end of my example document.

John Bigbooty

― Honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does this kill the bold?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Trying to work out this inlined image thing. Please ignore.

stave2.gif

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hmmm. That didn't work. Let's try this:

D:\My Documents\My Pictures\stave2.gif

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yesssssssssssss!

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Arghhh! bastard computer, I cant see it here. what am I missing

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

you can't see it, because it's referring to a local file on Jeff's computer. it needs to be uploaded to a website, and referred to with an 'http://...' style URL.

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thanks. Kodanshi has just pointed this out to me in the ILM thread where I tried to use the image to pose a question. All I can say is this page is a bit misleading.

It was a music stave BTW, quite pretty on my screen.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Note that the img tag is an HTML extension that is currently only understood by NCSA Mosaic and not by most other World Wide Web browsers

Arrrr, I remember when it were nowt but mosaic round here and multicoloured horizontal rules were all the rage.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

≈

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

lets see...

―

J>E>L

, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

lll

― JEL, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

still working?

― , Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pah!

― JEL, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

......

― mic, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

..............

―

mi, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

― michael, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What on earth are you trying to do James? And why have you become jel again?

― Nick, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm sorta inspired by wrestling where paople change their identities and stuff...like when Mick Foley gave up being Mankind and became Cactus Jack again...Really, it's just very silly!

― james or jel? I can't decide..., Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I didn't know who you were as james until i saw you writing "jel=" all the time.

― Maria, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

paragraph

― JoB, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

para

graph line
break BOLD italics

― dummie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oh no
― fritz, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

stop
― fritz, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ok
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jesus
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
christ
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i think I've broken ILE
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sorry
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

any better?
― carsmilesteve, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

why won't the bold go away even when i
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

why am so dumb? what did you do?
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think it was due to superfluous b and i tags further up thread, and you hadn't closed all of them. also sorry anthony for all this crap filling your inbox, will this do for attention?
― carsmilesteve, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

why am I so dumb ???
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think I got it
sorry anthony if I'm filling your inbox
thanks steve
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

so close
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

suzi quatro, I hope
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Webmonkey is a pretty good site wit too many tutorials but if you look you can find one for your level most of the time. I learnt I have no design skills so leanring html doesnt do me much good.
― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

wackfunky site Email link: school mailParagraph break:
― kevin enas, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

blah
― kevin enas, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

blah blah blah
― MarkH, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

― kevin enas, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Allstars – Walk On By/Killin’ Me add-in line
Allstars – Tear The Roof Off/No Diggedy
Allstars – What About Us (Vocal & Crazy Dub)
Allstars – Boom Tune – Bling! Ting
― Paul Kennedy, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate HTML! They ought to simplify these things.. :(
― Gale Deslongchamps, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

dan perry you have just made my life a lot easier. thank you.
― di, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

wow
― Ronan, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Skipping 100 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
italics
bold
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

cf hell frezzing over (or have i missed something). go to the HTML playground now.
― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I tried, but it didn't work there.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

something strange is happening to my computer.
I don't think it likes this stuff.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

what does 'title' do?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

No - I don't think it likes this stuff.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

so is this how the blue writing works?
I doubt it.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let's have another go.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think I have got the hang of this.
I have been thinking about this text as the place where Tom Ewing made the baffling assertion, on which I have often commented, that everyone agreed that B&S were ('ferociously'?) inconsistent.
I don't think my computer has got the hang of it either.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

cats are brill!
― sugar, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

mystery link
― Harry Noble, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

homelink
― Harry Noble, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is a real boon.. On a related topic - can anyone advise how one goes about setting up a website; a very basic one, just text. I know practically zilch.
― Harry Noble, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Go to www.pitas.com
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...
dear other front-end developer I work with:
there is no fucking need to put "align=left" in every single fucking tr tag. none whatsoever. stop it before I go insane.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i miss all those threads where people messed around with html.
bring back tag usage!
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

dear other front-end developer I work with:
for the love of god think when you start to code some shit. if it looks like a big old chunk of content might be something they want to dynamically display or hide, then keep it all in one table or something, do not break the "order" button from an item away from the item and mix it up in a table with a totally different item. This is dumb and shows no ability to think through problems. Also it makes me want to kick you.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Hopefully this is a picture of Robyn with a pink background
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c23/unterwasser/robyn.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

?
How come upthread James was able to produce a table with a pink (actually mauve now I look again), background and it doesn't want to work now? I just copied the source and added a pic.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

a lot of html tags have been disabled recently to stop people abusing them.
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

How do you do the moving one?
A guy in my work does it in his emails sometimes (Outlook) - I want to be able to as well but I don't know 1. How to make it move, and 2. How to apply it to Outlook.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/hundedjinn-blink-av.gif
― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

move in what way?
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Rumpie, it looks shit and will annoy the fuck out of everyone. Don't.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

What Markelby said, I really hate it when people do this.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...
say i'm in the same folder as the index and i want to link to a part of the page. then is it just index.html#docs, for example? thanks IN ADVANCE.
― youn (youn), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

only if you specify an anchor named docs. so:

(open tag)a name=docs(close tag)
will make that link work
― john, a resident of chicago. (john s), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, that's what i meant. thanks.
― youn (youn), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...
lol
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhnwuCKa71qzfxxeo1_500.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

eight years pass...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCtbp69_NXI
― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link

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