Compose tips

input formats:

Textile:

Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <object> <embed> <div> <table> <tr> <td> <img> <iframe> <h2> <br> <hr />

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 W3C's HTML Specifications 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="http://www.apc.org">Association for Progressive Communications</a> Association for Progressive Communications

Emphasized <em>Emphasized</em> Emphasized

Strong <strong>Strong</strong> Strong

Cited <cite>Cited</cite> Cited

Coded text used to show programming source code <code>Coded</code> Coded

Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>

First item
Second item

Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>

First item
Second item

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 object.

No help provided for tag embed.

No help provided for tag div.

Table

<table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>

Table header
Table cell

No help provided for tag img.

No help provided for tag iframe.

Header

<h2>Subtitle</h2>

Subtitle

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 hr.

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 & 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	`<`	<
Quotation mark	`"`	"

Images can be added to this post.

Textile Help

Block modifier syntax:

CSS attributes can be applied to blocks (paragraphs, headers, etc.). CSS classes are specifed with (class); CSS IDs are specified with (#id); both can be specified with (class#id). An arbtirary CSS style can be applied by using {style}. Finally, language attributes are applied using [language].

Additionally, alignment and indentation shorthands are provided. To left-align, right-align, center, and justify text, use <, >, =, and <>, respectively. ( left-indents a block 1em for each occurrence, and ) right-indents similarly.

Tables have additional options. ^, -, and ~ specify top, middle, and bottom vertical alignment. The _ attribute on a cell indicates that it is a table header.

The examples below illustrate these attributes.

textile input output

Headings

hx. (where x is 1 - 6)

h1. Heading

Heading

h2(class). Heading with class

Heading with class

Paragraphs

p=. Centered text

Centered text

p())(#id). Indented text with ID

Indented text with ID

Block quotes

bq(class#id). Quote with class and ID

Quote with class and ID

bq[en]. English quote

English quote

Ordered lists

{color: blue}# Attributes specified
# before the first item
# affect the whole list

Attributes specified
before the first item
affect the whole list

Unordered lists

* Lists can have
## subitems or
## sublists
* too

Lists can have
1. subitems or
2. sublists
too

Footnotes

fnx. (where x is 1 - 100)

fn17. Footnote

¹⁷ Footnote

Tables

|_. A|_. B|_. C|
(dark). |very|simple|table|
|<. left|=. center|>. right|
|^{height:3em}. top|-. middle|~. bottom|

A	B	C
very	simple	table
left	center	right
top	middle	bottom

Phrase modifier syntax:

The class, ID, style, and language attributes described above also apply to the span phrase modifier as shown below.

textile input	output
_emphasis_	emphasis
__italic__	italic
strong	strong
bold	bold
??citation??	citation
-delete text-	~~deleted text~~
+inserted text+	inserted text
^superscript^	^superscript
~subscript~	_subscript
@code@	`code`
%(class)span%	span
%{color:red;}span%	span
==no textile==	no textile
"link text":http://drupal.org	link text
"link text(title)":http://drupal.org	link text
!/en/misc/druplicon.png!
!/en/misc/druplicon.png(alt text)!
!/en/misc/druplicon.png!:http://drupal.org
ABC(Always Be Closing)	ABC
Footnote reference[10]	Footnote reference¹⁰

Acidfree inline tags

title: use this string as the caption (Note that you can have the node title be the default caption by modifying the setting in admin/settings/acidfree)
align: {left,right}
size: {M, WxH} where M=max dimension and WxH=WidthxHeight
link: 'none', 'album', or relative or absolute url e.g. http://www.google.com or node/59. If set to none, thumbnail will not be a link. If set to album, link will point to album of selected item.
popup: any value. If set, it will cause the link to be a popup link
style: CSS style information for the image
class: additional class for the image

Examples

[acidfree:1234 size=300 align=right] - right aligned thumbnail of node 1234 with max dimension of 300 pixels
[acidfree:4321] - left aligned thumbnail of node 4321 (default thumbnail size)
[acidfree:3241 align=left size=320x240] - right aligned thumbnail of node 3241 with size = 320x240
[acidfree:3241 title='This is a different title' size=320 popup=true link="http://mysite.dom/"] - left aligned thumbnail of node 3241 with a title set, size = 320x240, link pointing to mysite.dom and target=blank_ set in the anchor
[acidfree:3241 link=none class='my-image your-image' style="border: 2 px grey inset;"] - left aligned thumbnail of 3241, default size, class set and new style info

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Each email address will be obfuscated in a human readable fashion or (if JavaScript is enabled) replaced with a spamproof clickable link.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

generic:

Allowed HTML tags: <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>