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KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Basic HTML Commands
This document provides basic HTML commands that are needed for creating KnowledgeBase documents.
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| Bold | <strong>Strong text</strong> | Strong text | |||||||||
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 Line break Avoid using this if at all possible. Use the Paragraph tags instead.  | 
First line.<br /> Next line.  | 
First line. Next line.  | 
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| Paragraph break | <p>First paragraph.</p> <p>Next paragraph.</p>  | 
 First paragraph. Next paragraph.  | 
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| Horizontal rule | <hr /> | ||||||||||
| Center | <div style="text-align: center;">text centered</div> | 
 text centered 
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| Color | <span style="color:red;">text in red</span> | text in red | |||||||||
| Ordered list | <ol> <li>One list item</li> <li>Another item</li> <li>Yet another item</li> </ol>  | 
Number list:
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| Unordered list | <ul> <li>One list item</li> <li>Another item</li> <li>Yet another item</li> </ul>  | 
Bullet list:
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| Nested lists Note: Nested list must be within li tags of an item in outer list.  | 
<ul> <li>One list item</li> <li>Another item <ol> <li>Nested list item 1</li> <li>Nested list item 2</li> <li>Nested list item 3</li> </ol> </li> <li>Yet another item</li> </ul>  | 
Outer list:
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| Hyperlink
 Link - inserts standard hyperlink Anchor - inserts a named anchor KbLink - inserts a relative link to a KB doc LinkDoc - inserts a custom tag which allows linking to a KB doc  | 
<a href="http://kb.wisc.edu">KnowledgeBase - Link</a> <a name="anchor_name">This is the anchor</a> <a href="#anchor_name">Link to an anchor</a> <a href="page.php?id=1">About Help Desk - KbLink</a> <a href="docId:5252">5252</a>  | 
 
 KB User's Guide - Documents Tab - Editing an Existing Doc - LinkDoc  | 
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| Hyperlink opening new window Add target attribute to <a> tag  | 
<a href="/page.php?id=1" target="_blank">About Help Desk</a> | About Help Desk | |||||||||
| Email link | <a href="mailto: helpdesk@university.edu">Email Help Desk</a> | Email Help Desk | |||||||||
| Image | <img src="/images/group41/3469/redo.gif" title="redo.gif" alt="redo.gif" width="20" height="20" /> | ||||||||||
| Table | <table border="1"> <tr> <td> A </td> <td> B </td> <td> C </td> </tr> <tr> <td> 10 </td> <td> 20 </td> <td> 30 </td> </tr> </table>  | 
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| Comments | <!-- comments goes here --> | ||||||||||
| Pre-format | <pre>
FED TAX  STATE TAX
M-00     M-00
</pre> | 
FED TAX STATE TAX M-00 M-00  | 
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| Heading2 | <h2>Heading2</h2> | 
Heading2 | 
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| Heading3 | <h3>Heading3</h3> | 
Heading3 | 
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| Heading4 | <h4>Heading4</h4> | 
Heading4 | 
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| Code | <code>This text is written in monospace type</code> | This text is written in monospace type | 
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| Right Align | <div style="text-align: right;">This text is right aligned</div> | 
 This text is right aligned 
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| Superscript | <sup>Superscript</sup> | TextSuperscript | |||||||||
| Subscript | <sub>Subscript</sub> | TextSubscript | |||||||||
| Block quote | <blockquote>This text is quoted in a block quote</blockquote> | Text
This text is quoted in a block quote  | 

