What HTML tags can I use on Dreamwidth?

[ivorygates]

Somebody who isn't me needs to go over this:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=155

Comments

[flick]

Although it's less accurate, I think it might be more *useful* to have an example of how <a href> works, rather than just <a>.

Some of them (eg, address, span), I can't see any use for on DW. On the other hand, if you're listing all the possibly tags then I guess they should all be there. Might it be worth breaking the tags into sections? Say, tables, lists, formatting, links and images, advanced?

For some others (eg, font, img) it might be useful to give an example of how they work.

Big, blockquote, q, small, sub, sup are showing as regular text, and h3 to h6 all look identical, for me (Firefox, with the pink site scheme).

The angle brackets in the xmp example aren't showing corrctly.

[ivorygates]

I'm not listing all the possible tags: just the ones that show at the bottom of the page when you go to make an entry, so these are the html tags you can use on this site.

I think the reason the angle brackets on the xmp example don't show correctly is because doesn't permit html to display. I'll fix that.<br /><br />I don't know why Big, blockquote, q, small, sub, and sup are showing as regular text. Really.<br /><br />It might be useful to do a second entry containing only the text formatting tags, but I also think there may be a need for an exhaustive alphabetical list. Opinions?

[dragonwolf]

Span is actually supposed to be used in place of font, which is deprecated.

For example, <span style="font-size:.8em"> a section of somewhat smaller text.</span>

It's used to style a line-level (as opposed to its block level counterpart, <div>) section of an element, either through inline styles, or an entry in an external stylesheet.