Posted by Toby Inkster on 10/24/11 11:46

Bill wrote:

> If, like my self, you do very little HTML work an editor that does not
> require you to remember or look up all of the HTML syntax can save a
> lot of time.

Once your template is in place, and style sheets finalised, there's very
little syntax that most people actually *need* to remember for the most
part.

Block level:

<h1>...</h1> = main heading
<h2>...</h2> = subheading
<h3>...</h3> = sub-subheading, and so on
<p>...</p> = paragraph
<ul>...</ul> = unordered list
<ol>...</ol> = ordered list
<li>...</li> = list item (in either of above lists)

Inline level:

<em>...</em> = emphasised
<strong>...</strong> = strongly emphasised
<a href="X">Y</abbr> = hyperlink
<abbr title="XXX">X</abbr> = abbreviation with expansion given

Tables:

<table>...</table> = table
<caption>...</caption> = caption (within table)
<tr>...</tr> = table row (within table)
<th>...</th> = heading cell (within row)
<td>...</td> = data cell (within row)

Images:

<img alt="A" src="B" style="width:Xpx;height:Ypx">
= image B with width X, height Y and
alternative content A.

For the most part, you're unlikely to need to use anything other than
those 15 tags for representing content.

Learning those 15 tags is likely to be quicker and easier than learning
all the nested menus of a complicated WYSIWYMGBOPMN editor.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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