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Basic HTML for formatting your comments

Here some basic HTML tags to allow you to style your comments on the Skype blogs. We only support the tags below and screen any other HTML elements.

The basics

• Make sure each tag has a starting < > and ending </> tag eg <u>this text is underlined</u>.

• Single tags like breaks <br /> are the only exceptions to this.

• When you're using speech marks to reference images, alt text or links you want to add, make sure you open " and close " the speech marks eg <a href="http://www.skype.com">this is a link to skype.com</a>

Text formatting

• Bold: <strong>text in here is now bold</strong>

• Underlined: <u>text in here is now underlined</u>

• Italics: <em>text in here is now in italics</em>

Paragraphs and line breaks

• Paragraphs: <p>text in here is now a paragraph</p>

• Line break: the end of one line <br /> and the start of another

Lists

Bullet points (unordered lists) and numbered lists (ordered lists) need a tag to set up the list, then another tag <li> to separate each item in the list.

Example of a list of bullet points:

<ul>
<li>easy to scan</li>
<li>easy to read</li>
<li>great for summarising</li>
</ul>

Example of a numbered list:

<ol>
<li>easy to scan</li>
<li>easy to read</li>
<li>great for summarising</li>
</ol>

Links

1. To add a link, first use the anchor tag <a></a>.
2. Now inside the <a> tag, add href="web address" to reference the web address you want to link to: eg <a href="http://www.skype.com">
3. Finally, add the text that will appear on the page as the hyperlinked text between the <a href></a> tags: eg <a href="http://www.skype.com">skype.com</a>.

Images

1. To add an image, use the <img /> single tag.
2. Inside the <img /> tag, add a space after img then the source attribute (where the image is located): eg <img src="http://www.skype.com/i/images/logos/skype_logo.png"/>
3. Next, add a space, then a description of the image with some alt text: eg alt=‟Skype logo”
4. So the whole thing is eg <img src=‟http://www.skype.com/i/images/logos/skype_logo.png” alt=‟Skype logo” />. Remember to leave a space, then have the forward slash in at the end of the tag to close it.