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These are the most common
HTML tags you will use to spruce up your auction listings. To
use HTML in your item descriptions, just enclose the word or
words you want to change with the appropriate tags.
If you are designing
an entire web page to be uploaded to the web, please click here.
Don't forget, when you
use an <OPEN> tag, you must ALWAYS
use a </CLOSE> tag at the end. That's the one with the
forward-slash just before the word, like this:
</word>
The easiest thing to
do is center text or a picture on the page. We will use the CENTER
tags like this:
No center tags on this text.
<CENTER>This text
is centered.</CENTER>
(the tags will not show
up on the finished page)
Notice the </CENTER>
tag at the end? - This is CRUCIAL! When
adding HTML to your listings, ALWAYS close
the tags. It becomes even more important later, when you put
a link to another web page, or a picture in your description.
The next
thing to do is add color or change the size of the text for your
listings. Use the font tags below to change the color of your
text. These are the 16 web-safe colors. All browsers can read
these colors. Notice the one that's missing? - That's the background
color of this page. There must be a space after the word FONT,
but not in the rest of the formula between the diamond operators
(that's the < and > ).
P.S. - Those are zeros in the color code, not the letter O.
<FONT
COLOR=FFFFFF>Put
your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=000000>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=FF0000>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=FF00FF>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=0000FF>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=00FFFF>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=00FF00>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=FFFF00>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=CCCCCC>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=999999>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=990000>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=990099>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=000099>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=009999>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=009900>Put your text here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=999900>Put your text here</FONT>
To see
these colors against a white background, click here.
Now let's
change the size of the text. There are 7 sizes supported by all
browsers, and for some strange reason, they are numbered from
-2 to +4. Here they are:
<FONT
SIZE=-2>This
the -2 size.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=-1>This
the -1 size.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=0>This
the zero size.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=+1>This the +1 size.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=+2>This
the +2 size.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=+3>This
the +3 size.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=+4>This
the +4 size.</FONT>
Do you
see how a line of type can wrap to the next line, and the </FONT>
tag still goes at the end?
You can
combine those two font tags into one diamond operator, so instead
of:
<font
color=FF00FF><font size=+2>Your text goes here with TWO close-font
tags.</font></font>
You can
do it like this:
<font
color=FF00FF size=+2>Your text goes here with ONE close-font tag.</font>
Also,
notice there are now two spaces in the formula. It will
not work properly without the spaces in the right places.
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