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How can I add formatting or HTML to the Text on my Page?
Rien
posted this on August 18, 2009 08:27 pm
Available in: Standard and Pro account
There are two ways to format the text inside your webpage: HTML and Textile.
If you have experience with HTML you can add HTML tags to your text, include links, even add images.
NEW: URL's and email addresses will be formatted to clickable links automatically!
Textile Is Easy
Textile is a simple text markup. Simple symbols mark words’ emphasis. Blocks of text can be easily tagged as headers, quotes, or lists.
The most commomnly used textile markup for your web page is:
_italic text_ -> italic text
*bold* -> bold text
h4. Larger header -> Larger header
"Link text":http://www.yoursiteaddress.com -> Link to site
"Link text":mailto:you@youremailaddress.com -> e-mail ink
You can also add an image to your text. Just add the direct link to your image and add a "!" to both sides.
!http://images.us.viewbook.com/yourimage.jpg!
Custom HTML
If you add multiple lines of HTML code, surround your HTML code with the following tags:
<notextile> your HTML here </notextile>
Comments
I tried _italic text_ but it is only working inside a text. At the beginning of the textbox, it just shows "_".
Idem for +underline+ : just shows "+" instead of underlined text ??
Indeed, that's an issue we still have to solve. Thanks for reminding.
I've just learned how to add custom HTML and I am very novice at this but... I think I'm the right track as I've managed to format my SideText area. However, as soon as I try to do Custom HTML for side title and title... when I refresh my webpage, all I see is text from the Sidetext... entire website goes missing. It is me or...?
Any way to include very small thumbnails as opposed to just 'small'? Failing that, how to integrate a simple 3 column CSS into text body?
Replace the _small at the end of the URL with _mini ?
Custom CSS, not really possible at the moment.
Are these formatting options for links and and adding images etc only possible in the 'Body' area of a 'Text' page and not in 'Albums' or 'Collections'?
Correct, those formatting options are only possible in the body and side text.
How do I add icons on my page (ie ModelMayhem and Facebook)?
Tiffany, please read the following: http://support.viewbook.com/entries/20249977-how-do-i-integrate-soc...
Is there any way to format links to be a different color other than the standard black or white? Because you can't use HTML in album text, my viewers will not know the difference between regular text and links.
Megan, links will be underlined automatically right?
If you add a link to an Album description you can format it as follows, to make it underlined: <a href="http://www.example.com"><u>link text</u></a>
and if I want the link to NOT be underlined (as seems to be done automatically in the side text box), what can I do? Thanks
<a href="http://www.example.com" style="text-decoration:none;">link text</a>