List of Some HTML Tags

Lots of forms will use a textarea box that you can fill in information with. To help with formatting issues below are a few html tags you might consider using when entering data. Note that when you cut and paste from another file (ie. word document) you will loose some formatting (i.e. italics and bolded text), so the below tags might be helpful.
TagWhat it DoesExample CodeExample Output
<p>Double Line break.paragraph 1<p>paragraph 2 paragraph 1

paragraph 2

<br>Single Link break. this is line one<br>this is line two this is line one
this is line 2
<b> </b>Boldthis is <b>bolded text</b> this is bolded text
<i> <i>Italicizethis is <i> italicized text</i> this is italicized text
<ul> <li> </ul>Unordered list the ul tag indicates the beginning <ul> <li> list item one <li> list item two <li> list item three </ul> and the /ul indicates the end the ul tag indicates the beginning
  • list item one
  • list item two
  • list item three
and the /ul indicates the end
HTML 4.0 Reference if you are interested in learning more HTML tags.
Special Characters
Sometimes browsers will not recognize special characters. (And since the less then and greater than sign are used to delimit html tags you will need to use an alternate code). So below is a table of codes you could to use in place of a special character.
CodeDescription
&lt;< Less than symbol
&gt;> Greater than symbol
&amp;& Ampersand
&quot;" Quotation mark
&deg;° Degree sign

ISO 8859-1 character set overview which contains more codes for more special characters.

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