How to use basic html to format text in MyUni

You can add HTML to any text item you create within MyUni. This includes general items and headings, announcements, discussion posts, quiz questions and anywhere else you enter text through the MyUni interface.

1. Bold
2. Italic
3. Coloured text
4. Combining effects
5. Linking to a website
6. More HTML resources

1. Bold, italic and coloured text

You can easily make text in your posts bold, italic and coloured. Use these features sparingly for emphasis where appropriate. DO NOT bold, italicise or colour large blocks of text.

To bold text <b></b>:

Surround the text you wish to be bold with b tags, for example
If you type

In this sentence <b>this bit will be bold</b> but the rest will not.

will display on screen as

In this sentence this bit will be bold but the rest will not.

To italicise text <i></i>:

Surround the text you wish to be italic with i tags, for example
If you type

In this sentence <i>this bit will be in italics</i> but the rest will not.

will display on screen as

In this sentence this bit will be in italics but the rest will not.

To colour text:

Surround the text you wish to colour with font tags and specify colour.
For example

In this sentence <font color="red" >this bit will be red </font> but the rest will not.

will display on screen as

In this sentence this bit will be red but the rest will not.

Note in this example all html spellings (color) are American.

Combining tags:

You can combine any or all of these effects by nesting the tags.
For example

In this sentence <b><i><font color="red">this bit will be bold, italic and red</font></i></b> but the rest will not.

will display on screen as

In this sentence this bit will be bold, italic and red but the rest will not.

There are many named colours you can use, here are sixteen supported by all browsers:

aqua		navy		gray		silver
black		olive		green		teal
blue		purple		lime		white
fuchsia		red		maroon		yellow

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5. Linking to a website <a href=""></a>

You can also make text link to external websites using an anchor tag:

Just copy the example below and change the address "https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au" to the address of the page you want to link to and the text 'MyUni' to an appropriate description of where you are linking to.

e.g. <a href="https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au">MyUni</a>

will give the following result:

MyUni

You can change the address to any website (make sure you check the link in the preview window by clicking it and ensuring it goes where it should)


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6. More HTML resources

If you would like to learn more about HTML then you may find the following sites useful:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/

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