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I notice that I have a few people on my friends list that are new not only to LiveJournal, but to the internet in general. I'm sure they are wondering about all these nifty codes, so I'm listing them out. Feel free to add this post to your memories (click on the heart) if you think you may need to find this again.

If anyone feels the need to correct or add anything, feel free.

Text:
bold: <b>text</b>
italic: <i>text</i>
underline: <u>text</u>
strikethrough: <s>text</s>
emphasis: <em>text</em>
big: <big>text</big>
small: <small>text</small>
^{superscripted}: ^text
_subscripted: _text
Indented block of text: <blockquote>paragraph or two</blockquote>

<font size=X color=color face=font>text</font>
Size may be given as an absolute (in pixels, I believe) or as an amount larger or smaller than the viewer's default view (+2) (this is preferable).
Color may be specified as a hex number (FFCC00) or as a word (fuschia).
Fonts (face) may be named.


Displaying pictures (image tag):
<img src="address"> (image source) Address must be in quotes.

additional attributes:
height=###
width=###
title="text" (text that will be displayed if you hover your mouse on the image)
alt="text" (text that will be displayed if the image does not display.)

example: <img src="http://userpic.livejournal.com/20574/18150.jpg" width=100 height=50>


Linking to other web pages (anchor tag):
<a href="address">text to click</a>
Address must be in quotes.

additional attributes:
target=window (Use _blank to open link in a new window. I like to do this when I'm linking to someplace that viewers will want to click around the site.

example: <a target=_blank href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/02/superbowl.jackson/index.html">see the stupidity</a>

As you can see, if you show a web address, LJ will make it into a link.


LiveJournal specific tags:

LJ cut:
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