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Basic HTML For Forums

There may come a time online that you find you need to know how to add an image to a page, or hyperlink to a page you want people to see, or maybe you want your text to be more emphatic and wish you knew how to underline or bold. This page is a quick reference to the basic HTML commands someone browsing a forum or group might need.

Scroll through the categories to find precisely what you're looking for.

Text Commands


Causes the text to be bolded and more emphatic.

<b> Put your text here! </b>


Causes the text to be italic.

<i> Put your text here! </i>


Causes the text to be underlined.

<u> Put your text here! </u>


Causes the text to be struck out.

<S> Put your text here! </S>


Changes the color of your text. Replace "red" with any other color you want your text to be.

<font color="red"> Put your text here! </font>


This gives you an idea of how to combine the previous commands into one tag, so you can do more than just one at a time. It's actually a lot simpler than it looks. Just remember that for every opening tag you must have a closing tag. Commands for bold, italic, underline or strikeout should go after the font tag, if you're using one, and the closing tags for the smaller commands should go before the closing tag for the font command.

<font color="red"><b><u> Put your text here! </u></b></font>


With this command you can change the style of your font, or font face. Keep in mind, the font you use has to be stored on the machine of the people viewing it. Otherwise, they'll only see their default computer font. For that reason, you want to stick with common operating system fonts and not speciality outlandish fonts. Some common fonts are Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Console, Palatino Linotype, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, and MS Sans Serif.

<font face="Palatino Linotype"> Put your text here! </font>


Changes the size of your text. Replace the number with any number you like. The default value you see in forums and group is 1.

<font size="3"> Put your text here! </font>

You can then combine font values into one tag, like this. This way, you don't have to have a seperate tag for each font value you want to apply.

<font face="Courier New" color="red" size="3"> Put your text here! </font>




Working With Links

Links are nowhere near as complicated as many people tend to think they are. Replace the bolded part with the URL you want to link to.

<a href="http://www.myjadedreality.000space.com"> Link text goes here! </a>

Of course, you can always command that the link open in a new page instead of overriding the page the user is currently viewing, by adding a target into the code, like this.

<a href="http://www.myjadedreality.000space.com" target="_blank"> Link text goes here! </a>




Working With Images

Want to add an image to a webpage or forum? Easy! Use the code below and add in the URL to your own image into the URL portion of the code.

<img src="http://www.site/image.gif">

Maybe the image is too large and you need to scale it down a little so it doesn't stretch out the page. That's easy, too! Notice the percentage values in the code below. Just adjust them according to what you need for your own image.

<img src="http://www.site/image.gif" width="50%" height="50%">