I don't know how much you know about computers in general, or web coding in particular, and there may be some people reading this post that use computers little enough and really don't understand some of the terms I'm using, so I apologize if I sound like I'm "talking down" to anyone. I also apologize if anyone who falls into that second category feels like I'm talking over their heads.
Italics and underline both use much the same code, but for a single letter that marks which one you're using.
For italics, you want to start the coding by using the "less-than-symbol" (SHIFT plus the comma key), type letter "i" (no quotes), use the "greater-than-symbol" (SHIFT plus period key on the alphabet portion of your keyboard--the period on the numeric keypad won't do any good here). Then you can type the text that you want italicized (quotes are okay, here, as long as you don't mind them being formatted the same as the text--otherwise, put the quotes outside of the code used for formatting...the tags, they're called). You must end the code by using the less-than symbol again, forward slash (same key as the question mark, but without the SHIFT--it's the slash mark that has the top portion pointing to the right), type the small letter "i" again, and again use the "greater-than symbol".
Example: <i>"Lisey's Story"</i> when coded, should show up in the text something like this: "Lisey's Story"
If you didn't want the quote marks italicized, the code you would require is "<i>Lisey's Story</i>" which gives you "Lisey's Story" (assuming you even wanted the quotes in there...otherwise just don't include them).
Underline, as I stated, is coded almost exactly the same way...except that inside of those "tags"
-- less-than-symbol-letter-i-greater-than-symbol is an example of a opening tag, and the one containing the forward slash as well is called an "end tag" --
you use the letter "u" instead of the letter "i".
If you're interested, you can bold text the same way, replacing the letter inside the tags ("i" for italics, "u" for underline) with "b" for bold.
So <u>The Raft</u> (The Raft) is printed in the anthology <b>Skeleton Crew</b> (Skeleton Crew) -- or some such situation.
Just for reference, coding to get italics and whatnot is the easy stuff. Coding this response so that I could show you what coding I was talking about, rather than expecting you to follow along with my description, is a little more difficult! Showing the code actually requires a whole different set of codes, and every time I made the slightest change to the post, since I'm not dealing with minimal coding, I have to preview it, just to make sure some errant end tag or whatever doesn't completely muck up what I typed!
Until next lesson.
And let me know if I missed anything. I just have this weird feeling as I'm about to post this that I overlooked something. Something crucial, but also easy to miss.
P.S. You'd think there'd be some means on this forum of automatically adding some of these kinds of formats, rather than limiting it to those of us with HTML knowledge.
threat2 wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am finally getting the hang of this website. In my late teens and early 20's, I was a huge Stephen King fan. I read everything written by him, including the Bachman books from that time. I don't recall the last novel I read by him but it was many years ago. I also read the books of short stories...fantastic and many years later I read ON WRITING. At some point my reading tastes changed or something, but I have recently bought LISEY'S STORY. I look forward to reading it with all of you and being able to talk about it!
Is there a way to underline or italicize the names of books in these threads? I noticed that Stephanie was able to do it, but I haven't figured out how. (hence the capitalization)
Sincerely,
Theresa
Italics and underline both use much the same code, but for a single letter that marks which one you're using.
For italics, you want to start the coding by using the "less-than-symbol" (SHIFT plus the comma key), type letter "i" (no quotes), use the "greater-than-symbol" (SHIFT plus period key on the alphabet portion of your keyboard--the period on the numeric keypad won't do any good here). Then you can type the text that you want italicized (quotes are okay, here, as long as you don't mind them being formatted the same as the text--otherwise, put the quotes outside of the code used for formatting...the tags, they're called). You must end the code by using the less-than symbol again, forward slash (same key as the question mark, but without the SHIFT--it's the slash mark that has the top portion pointing to the right), type the small letter "i" again, and again use the "greater-than symbol".
Example: <i>"Lisey's Story"</i> when coded, should show up in the text something like this: "Lisey's Story"
If you didn't want the quote marks italicized, the code you would require is "<i>Lisey's Story</i>" which gives you "Lisey's Story" (assuming you even wanted the quotes in there...otherwise just don't include them).
Underline, as I stated, is coded almost exactly the same way...except that inside of those "tags"
-- less-than-symbol-letter-i-greater-than-symbol is an example of a opening tag, and the one containing the forward slash as well is called an "end tag" --
you use the letter "u" instead of the letter "i".
If you're interested, you can bold text the same way, replacing the letter inside the tags ("i" for italics, "u" for underline) with "b" for bold.
So <u>The Raft</u> (The Raft) is printed in the anthology <b>Skeleton Crew</b> (Skeleton Crew) -- or some such situation.
Just for reference, coding to get italics and whatnot is the easy stuff. Coding this response so that I could show you what coding I was talking about, rather than expecting you to follow along with my description, is a little more difficult! Showing the code actually requires a whole different set of codes, and every time I made the slightest change to the post, since I'm not dealing with minimal coding, I have to preview it, just to make sure some errant end tag or whatever doesn't completely muck up what I typed!
Until next lesson.
And let me know if I missed anything. I just have this weird feeling as I'm about to post this that I overlooked something. Something crucial, but also easy to miss.P.S. You'd think there'd be some means on this forum of automatically adding some of these kinds of formats, rather than limiting it to those of us with HTML knowledge.
