Using HTML Tags to Format Text - Part 1

Let's in this post try to see how to use HTML markup for posts formatting on bbPress based forums, as we talk about HTML, the things we will see are not meant only to be used on bbPress, but in any situation that requires the use of HTML.

Let's start!

Like bbCode (derived from HTML), HTML is composed of tags that wrap the text, tags are composed of:

1. Lower than sign "<" & greater than sign ">" (have the same use that have the "[" & "]" brackets in bbCode)

2. A value added to the < & > signs to make each tag different from others & with a unique function. In the previous lesson we saw the values: a, blockquote, br, code, em, strong, ul, ol & li.

3. Then almost any tag has an opening part & an ending part, same as what we saw with bbCode tags. Example: em is a value that makes the text italic, to use it as a tag, we need to wrap the text we want italic with <em> in the beginning & </em> in the end. Notice the "/" (forward slash) in the ending part.

Next will start seeing the use of each tag: Part 2 - a - Live Clickable Links