HTML for Blogger

Most blogs or on-line forums allow you to use basic HTML text formatting commands within the body of the message you type. Knowing these commands means you can add more spice and emphasis to your posts. But what are the commands? How do they work?

To get started, you need to know a little bit about HTML, the text-formatting “language” used on the World Wide Web.

You probably don’t care to know what HTML stands for. Good. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It ‘s not a programming language. You don’t need to know any math to useHTML. You need only memorize a few simple things. Trust me, it’s not that complex.
HTML uses tags to control text. The tags tells the web browser that displays a web page how to format the text, whether to insert a link, image, table or other things too complex and boring for a blog.

Each tag is framed by a pair of angle brackets:
< >

These commonly known as the less-than and greater-than symbols. They’re found on your computer keyboard near the right shift key, above the comma and period keys.

Between the brackets are the actual codes that format text or insert a link or image into your post.

The tag consists of the text between the brackets. Sometimes there’s a lot of text, sometimes there’s just a single letter. It all depends on what the tag controls.