Examples of HTML

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Most prominent header

Next most prominent header

Next level of header

Less prominent header

Even less prominent header

Least prominent header

HTML also supports boldface, italic and typewriter fonts.


Here is an example of preformatted text. It allows you to do 
      arbitrary indentation or    weird  spacings   and
arbitrary line breaks
and leave as many blank lines as you like.


You can also line things up in columns:

     Column 1       Column 2       Column 3
     Item 1         Item 2         Item 3 
     Thing 1        Thing 2        Thing 3 

You can include certain formatting tags like italics in preformatted
text, although it is not recommended.

You can include hyperlinks within preformatted text.

Listing format (usually used for things like listings of computer code or HTML) works the same way as preformatted text, but may show up in a different font (depending on your HTML viewer). The <blockquote> tag provides indentation of the type you would use for quotes, for example

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a `fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. -- Rob Stampfli

Note that for the HTML viewer to display the string <blockquote> (rather than treat it as an HTML tag), you need to use the < and > escape characters to display the special characters < and >. And in order to display those escape characters (rather than have HTML display them as < and >) you need to use the escape characters & for the special ampersand character &.

There are 3 types of lists in HTML:

An ordered list (such as this one)
An unordered list
A descriptive list

Here is an example of an unordered list:

Here is an item
Here is another item
Here are some more items:
- Note that lists can be nested
- Here is another item in this nested list
Here is yet another item

Here is an example of a descriptive list:

Here is the title of the first item: Here is the description of the first item
Here is the title of the next item: Here is the description of the next item
Maybe you want to put the titles in bold type: And the descriptions in plain type
Or maybe leave a line between the items: As was done for this item
Another title: And another example of a space between items

A paragraph tag <p> must be used to start a new paragraph, because HTML ignores line spaces. You can use a line break <br>
to move to a new line.

A horizontal ruled line, such as the one below, is a good way of breaking up sections of text.

Addresses, such as

Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, paulc@npac.syr.edu

can include hyperlinks.