Compose tips

input formats:
  • Filtered HTML:
    • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

    • Allowed HTML tags: <p> <br> <a> <em> <strong> <i> <b> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>

      This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

      For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

      Tag DescriptionYou TypeYou Get
      By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>

      Paragraph one.

      Paragraph two.
      By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibilityText with <br />line breakText with
      line break
      Anchors are used to make links to other pages.<a href="http://arcticblog.manomet.org">Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences</a>Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
      Emphasized<em>Emphasized</em>Emphasized
      Strong<strong>Strong</strong>Strong
      Italicized<i>Italicized</i>Italicized
      Bolded<b>Bolded</b>Bolded
      Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>
      • First item
      • Second item
      Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>
      1. First item
      2. Second item
      Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>
      First term
      First definition
      Second term
      Second definition
      Header<h2>Subtitle</h2>

      Subtitle
      Header<h3>Subtitle three</h3>

      Subtitle three
      Header<h4>Subtitle four</h4>

      Subtitle four
      Header<h5>Subtitle five</h5>
      Subtitle five
      Header<h6>Subtitle six</h6>
      Subtitle six

      Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

      If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

      Character DescriptionYou TypeYou Get
      Ampersand&amp;&
      Greater than&gt;>
      Less than&lt;<
      Quotation mark&quot;"
    • Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.
  • Full HTML:

    • To add a lightbox to your images, add rel="lightbox" attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. For example:

      <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox">image #1</a>

      <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[][my caption]">image #1</a>

      To show a caption either use the title attribute or put in the second set of square brackets of the rel attribute.

      If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, then you will need to include a group name between square brackets in the rel attribute. For example:

      <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a>
      <a href="image-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip][caption 2]">image #2</a>
      <a href="image-3.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip][caption 3]">image #3</a>

      There are no limits to the number of image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each set.

      If you wish to turn the caption into a link, format your caption in the following way:

      <a href="image-1.jpg" rel='lightbox[][<a href="http://www.yourlink.com">View Image Details</a>]' >image #1</a>

    • To add a lightbox slideshow to your images, add rel="lightshow[slideshowname][slide caption]" attribute to any link tag to activate the slideshow. For example:

      <a href="image-1.jpg" rel="lightshow[show1]">image #1</a>
      <a href="image-2.jpg" rel="lightshow[show1]">image #2</a>
      <a href="image-3.jpg" rel="lightshow[show1]">image #3</a>

      The title attribute in the link tag is optional. The addition of this attribute enables the display of a caption with the image displayed in the lightbox.

      There are no limits to the number of slideshow image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each slideshow.

      If you wish to turn the caption into a link, format your caption in the following way:

      <a href="image-1.jpg" rel='lightshow[show1][<a href="http://www.yourlink.com">View Image Details</a>]'>image #1</a>

    • It's possible to show HTML snippets in the lightbox, that is on the same domain. In this case the "rel" attribute should be set to "lightmodal". Again it's possible to group the content, (e.g. lightmodal[group][caption]) but in addition to that, it's possible to control some of the modal properties. It's possible to set the "width", "height" and "scrolling" properties of the modal. The properties are separated from the group name by a |, for example lightmodal[group|width:100px;][caption]. If no grouping is being used, then the | is still used and the format would be lightmodal[|width:100px;]. The properties should all be of the format "property: value;" - note the closing semi-colon. If no modal properties are set, then the default width and height of 400px will be used. See below for more detailed examples.

      Basic example:
      <a href="search.php" rel="lightmodal">Search</a>

      Grouped example:
      <a href="search.php" rel="lightmodal[search][caption 1]">Search</a>
      <a href="search.php?status=1" rel="lightmodal[search]">Search published</a>

      Controlling modal property example:
      <a href="search.php" rel="lightmodal[|width:400px; height:300px; scrolling: auto;][caption]">Search</a>

      Controlling modal property when grouped example:
      <a href="search.php" rel="lightmodal[search|width:400px; height:300px; scrolling: auto;]">Search</a>
      <a href="search.php?status=1" rel="lightmodal[search|width:400px; height:300px;]">Search published</a>

    • Video Filter

      You may insert videos from popular video sites by using a simple tag [video:URL].

      Examples:

      • Single video:
        [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId]
      • Random video out of multiple:
        [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId1,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId2]
      • Override default autoplay setting: [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId autoplay:1]
      • Override default width and height:
        [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId width:X height:Y]
      • Align the video:
        [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1qUeId align:right]

      Supported sites: YouTube, Google Video, Tangle, DailyMotion, Eyespot, Revver, Vimeo, Flickr Slideshows, Flickr Video, Game Videos, Meta Cafe, Game Trailers, College Humor, MySpace, Capped, Blip.tv, Slideshare, Picasa Slideshows.

      Special instructions:

      Some codecs need special input. You'll find those instructions here.
      • Slideshare:
        You need to construct your own URL, using the "Wordpress Embed" code from Slideshare, extract the "id" and "doc" parts, and form the URL like this: slideshare.net/?id=1759622&doc=usingdrupal-090723103440-phpapp01.
    • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.