402 CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG (Web design tools) AND
402 CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING YOUR COMMUNITY Table 15-1. Quicktag Functions Quicktag Function b Adds strong tags to some text for stronger emphasis i Adds em tags to some text for emphasis link Adds a link to your post b-quote Adds blockquote tags to your post del Marks up text as deleted (usually rendered with strike-through) ins Marks up text as inserted. (usually rendered as underline) img Adds an image to your post ul Starts an unordered list in your post ol Starts an ordered list in your post li Adds an item to your unordered or ordered list code Marks up text with code tags more Adds a special WordPress more tag to your post lookup Allows you to look up a word in an online dictionary Close Tags Closes any open tags in your post (but you should normally close them yourself to achieve the markup you intend) By using these quicktags, you are marking up the text of your post to describe its meaning. You can emphasize a word, set off a quoted block of text, type out a list of points, and so on. Unlike with a word processor, you are not directly styling your text. You will do that with the CSS of the theme you choose for the blog, as you ll learn in the next chapter. One way to use the quicktags is to select the text in your post you want to mark up, and then click the corresponding quicktag button. For example, if you have written a sentence and want to emphasize a word or phrase, select the words and click the b or i button. This will enclose your selected words with or tags, respectively. The tag marks up a word or words as emphasized. Your browser usually represents this by rendering the words in italics. The tag means a stronger emphasis and is usually rendered as bold. Another way to use quicktags is to apply them first, and then add the text you want to affect. For example, suppose you are writing a post about an article you read on another web site. You know you want to paste in a block of text as a quotation from the article, marked up with the
tag. Click the b-quote quicktag button, and an opening
tag will be inserted in your post. You can then paste in your quoted text, as shown in Figure 15-2. You ll see that the b-quote quicktag button has changed to /b-quote. This indicates that you have yet to close the opening
tag. Click the button again, and the closing
tag will be inserted. Another quicktag worth noting is the link quicktag. Click the button, and a little dialog box pops up, asking you to Enter the URL, as shown in Figure 15-3. Type in your URL, and then click OK. The opening anchor tag is inserted in your post with the URL you specified. Type in the words you want to be linked (that is, the words the reader will click on). Click the button (which now says /link) again, and the closing anchor tag will be inserted. Alternatively, if you already have the link words typed into your post, you can use a shortcut: select the words, and then click the link quicktag button. The same dialog box pops up, asking for your URL. After you enter the URL and click OK, the anchor tags for the link will be inserted .
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