Basic HTML Tags

For... Do this... And you'll get...
paragraph breaks
(Hard return)

<p>First paragraph</p>
<p>Another paragraph</p>
<p>Yet another paragraph</p>

First paragraph

Another paragraph

Yet another paragraph

single line breaks
(soft return)
First line <br />
Another line <br />
Yet another line
First line
Another line
Yet another line
italics <i>word</i> word
bold <b>word</b> word
underline <u>word</u> word
hyperlink <a href="http://www.gmint.org">word<a> word
unordered list (bullets)

<ul>
<li>word<li>
<li>word<li>
<li>word<li>
</ul>

  • word
  • word
  • word
ordered lists (numbered) <ol>
<li>word<li>
<li>word<li>
<li>word<li>
</ol>
  1. word
  2. word
  3. word
blockquote <blockquote>quote</blockquote>
quote

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