New Text Extensions:
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Commenting
Commenting syntax is now as follows:
<!-- Comment comment comment -->
Nesting of comments now works properly -- you need as many close brackets (>) as open brackets (<).
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Line Breaking: NOBR and WBR
<NOBR> NO BReak. Useful for words or strings <NOBR> you really dont want broken. The string will extend off the edge of the page if it must.</NOBR>
<WBR> Word BReak. This element is intended for use within a NOBR string so you can force a break in a particular spot if the string needs to be broken. It does not force a break where no break is necessary.
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Font stuff
SIZE Manipulation
<FONT SIZE = 3> is default, range is from 1 to 7. Prefixing the size value with + or - specifies that it is reletive to the basefont. The basefont may also be changed from the default 3 to a number within the 1-7 range.
This is written with FONT SIZE=1
FONT SIZE=2 is slightly bigger.
Default is set to FONT SIZE=3.
FONT SIZE=+1 is equivilent to FONT SIZE=4
This is written with FONT SIZE=4
The biggest of all is FONT SIZE=7
BASEFONT Manipulation
If you set BASEFONT SIZE=4...
<BASEFONT SIZE=4>
and then set FONT SIZE=+1...
<FONT SIZE=+1>
...you'll get the equivilent of a font size of 5 from the default basefont of size 3.
</FONT> </BASEFONT>
Close font and basefont with standard </tag> brackets and you'll go back to default font sizing.
This is <FONT SIZE=5> from the default basefont size of 3.
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New Symbols
® Registered trademark symbol escape sequence: & reg
© Copyright symbol escape sequence: & copy
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Positioning
Centering
<CENTER>You can now center your text, sandwich text between two images, or center images using the CENTER tag.
(BTW: this is a Netscape tag, not really an HTML tag,
so it may not work for other browsers.) </CENTER>
You can also enclose text that should be centered with an extended <P> tag like so:
<P ALIGN=CENTER>I like cheese nips</P>
Blank spaces
A simple hack to add multiple blank spaces in a line of text is to use the no-break space tag, . Putting several in a row will create several empty spaces on Netscape, but the new version of Mosaic considers this a bug and collapses multiple tags into one blank space. To maintain functionality on Mosaic browsers, you can alternate the with empty spaces like this:
- wonky woovy
This example should put five empty spaces between wonky and woovy. And here is what it looks like through Netscape:
- wonky woovy
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Last updated 8 august 95 by katie