[null and void]

OK OK call me a newbie, but how do you post in italics??/ Also what does "pwn3d" mean??/ and "IIRC"????

Nully's Quick FR HTML Guide:

(In all cases remove the space between the < and the following character)

Basic formatting:

Line break < br>
Paragraph break < p>
< u> underline < /u>
< i> italics < /i>
< b> bold < /b>
< font color=red> Red font < /font>
< blink> blink < /blink>

Posting a link:

General:
< a href=[web address]>[title]< /a>
Example:
This: < a href=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179145/posts>Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal< /a>
Posts as this:
Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal

Posting an image:

General:
< img src="[web server location">

Clarity is needed - you can't just snag a favorite picture from a desktop folder...it has to be hosted someplace to be transferrable to our posts. ~ ErnBatavia

Example:
This: < img src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">

Posts this:

Tip: control the size with "height=nnn" like so:

This: < img height= 200 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:

While This: < img height= 100 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:

[BigCinBigD]

Ping for later reading

[CedarDave]

If you're using Firefox try this extension:

http://bbcodextra.extenzilla.org/index.php?lang=eng&sez=1

It will automatically code a lot of the HTML functions. There are others too, but this is the one I prefer (some others have not been updated to Firefox 2.0).

[pjsbro]

ping for future reference

[Chuck54]

Many thanks for posting this.

[Graymatter]

I keep a document on my desktop with samples of useful html codes such as null&void has offered in his post. That way you don't have to memorize anything, just do a little copy and paste. It's very handy.