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Basic

• Allowed HTML tags: <a data-entity-substitution data-entity-type data-entity-uuid download href hreflang id name rel rev class> <abbr title> <acronym title> <address> <b> <blockquote> <br> <caption> <cite> <code> <col span width> <colgroup span width> <dd> <del> <dfn id title> <div id class> <dl> <dt> <em> <h2 id class> <h3 id class> <h4 id class> <h5 id class> <h6 id class> <hr> <i> <img alt height longdesc src width> <ins> <kbd> <li value> <mark> <ol start class> <p class> <pre> <s> <samp> <span class> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table id width class> <tbody> <td abbr axis colspan headers rowspan scope width> <tfoot> <th abbr axis colspan headers rowspan scope width> <thead> <tr> <ul class> <var>

  This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

  For more information see the HTML Living Standard or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

  Tag Description	You Type	You Get
  Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/environment">Environment</a>	Environment
  Abbreviation	<abbr title="Abbreviation">Abbrev.</abbr>	Abbrev.
  Acronym	<acronym title="Three-Letter Acronym">TLA</acronym>	TLA
  No help provided for tag address.
  Bolded	<b>Bolded</b>	Bolded
  Block quoted	<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>	Block quoted
  By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility	Text with <br />line break	Text with line break
  No help provided for tag caption.
  Cited	<cite>Cited</cite>	Cited
  Coded text used to show programming source code	<code>Coded</code>	Coded
  No help provided for tag col.
  No help provided for tag colgroup.
  No help provided for tag dd.
  Deleted	<del>Deleted</del>	Deleted
  No help provided for tag dfn.
  No help provided for tag div.
  Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.	<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>	First term First definition Second term Second definition
  No help provided for tag dt.
  Emphasized	<em>Emphasized</em>	Emphasized
  Heading	<h2>Subtitle</h2>	Subtitle
  Heading	<h3>Subtitle three</h3>	Subtitle three
  Heading	<h4>Subtitle four</h4>	Subtitle four
  Heading	<h5>Subtitle five</h5>	Subtitle five
  Heading	<h6>Subtitle six</h6>	Subtitle six
  No help provided for tag hr.
  Italicized	<i>Italicized</i>	Italicized
  No help provided for tag img.
  Inserted	<ins>Inserted</ins>	Inserted
  No help provided for tag kbd.
  No help provided for tag li.
  No help provided for tag mark.
  Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>	First item Second item
  By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.	<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>	Paragraph one. Paragraph two.
  Preformatted	<pre>Preformatted</pre>	Preformatted
  No help provided for tag s.
  No help provided for tag samp.
  No help provided for tag span.
  No help provided for tag strike.
  Strong	<strong>Strong</strong>	Strong
  Subscripted	<sub>Sub</sub>scripted	Subscripted
  Superscripted	<sup>Super</sup>scripted	Superscripted
  Table	<table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>	Table header Table cell
  No help provided for tag tbody.
  No help provided for tag td.
  No help provided for tag tfoot.
  No help provided for tag th.
  No help provided for tag thead.
  No help provided for tag tr.
  Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>	First item Second item
  No help provided for tag var.

  Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

  If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

  Character Description	You Type	You Get
  Ampersand	&	&
  Greater than	>	>
  Less than	&lt;	<
  Quotation mark	&quot;	"