HTML tags may be used in most areas of The Chathouse™ to creatively stylize your messages, they consist of a left angle bracket (<), (a ``less than'' symbol to mathematicians), followed by name of the tag and closed by a right angular bracket (>). Tags are usually paired, e.g.:

<BLINK>
Hello
</BLINK>

The ending tag looks just like the starting tag except a slash (/) precedes the text within the brackets. In the example, < H1> tells the Web browser to start formatting a level-one heading; </H1> tells the browser that the heading is complete. One exception to the pairing rule is the <P> tag. There is no such thing as </P>. NOTE: HTML is not case sensitive. <center> is equivalent to <CENTER> or <CeNtEr>. Not all tags are supported by all World Wide Web browsers. If someones browser does not support a tag, it will just ignore it.

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1) To make your text BOLD use these tags. <B></B>.

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2) For italics use these tags. <I>YOUR TEXT HERE</I>

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3) To force a line break use <BR> (use two for a blank line)

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4) To change the size of your text there are two ways.

The First Way

<FONT SIZE=1>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=2>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=3>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=4>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=5>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=6>YOUR TEXT HERE
<FONT SIZE=7>YOUR TEXT HERE


Note: The nornal size of your text is FONT SIZE=3.

The Secound Way



<H6>YOUR TEXT HERE</H6>




<H5>YOUR TEXT HERE</H5>




<H4>YOUR TEXT HERE</H4>




<H3>YOUR TEXT HERE</H3>




<H2>YOUR TEXT HERE</H2>




<H1>YOUR TEXT HERE</H1>

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5) To put a small circle at the beginning of your text use <LI>

• YOUR TEXT HERE note: this forces a new line
  
  

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6) To put a small square at the beginning of your text use <LI type=square>

• YOUR TEXT HERE note: this forces a new line
  
  

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7) To center your text do this...

<CENTER>YOUR TEXT HERE</CENTER>

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8) This is how to make lines to divide your text.
For a single width line that spans the length of the screen use <HR>

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This is how to make lines of different thickness .
<HR SIZE=1>

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<HR SIZE=2>

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<HR SIZE=3>

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<HR SIZE=4>

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<HR SIZE=5>

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<HR SIZE=6>

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<HR SIZE=7>

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<HR SIZE=8>

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<HR SIZE=9>

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<HR SIZE=10>

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9)

To change the color of your text.............

• <font color=red>RED TEXT</font>
• <font color=yellow>YELLOW TEXT</font>
• <font color=blue>BLUE TEXT</font>
• <font color=green>GREEN TEXT</font>

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To Post a picture in the chat room

You can NOT post a picture from your hard drive
• You can post any picture or register with an image as your handle using any picture that is currently on the web,
  if you know the "URL" Universal Resource Locator, for example:
• Type this line:
• <IMG SRC="http://www1.chathouse.com/return.jpg">
  
  (if you register an image as your handle, you will have to type this exact line everytime you enter the Chathouse. Please do NOT use any picture larger than 10k.)
• .jpg is one of the two types of file extensions used to represent still pictures, the other is .gif

For quicker loading in of pictures, it is advised that you try to keep the size of the picture files under 15k. To avoid unwanted pix from loading in to your browser, you can use the esc button to stop them, while still getting all the messages!

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