HTML CHEAT SHEET
Your Destiny Home Page can be used to provide information, promote various
materials and
activities, and make announcements to students and staff.
To customize the HOME page in Follett’s Destiny Library Manager, you can use some
basic HTML
commands to format your text.
One important thing to note: when you are using HTML tags, your text must be
surrounded by the tag. There is always an opening tag and a closing tag. The tags
surround the content and apply meaning to it.
TEXT FORMATTING TAGS
<b> … </b>
Create bold text. (Can also use <strong> … </strong>)
<i> … </i>
Add italics to text.
<u> … </u>
Underline text. However, many users assume any underline text is a hyperlink, so use this
sparingly.
<center> … </center>
Center your text on the screen.
<br>
Put a <br> at the end of a line to create a line break. Line breaks are not automatic in HTML. Just
pressing [Enter] on your keyboard will not create a line break. You must use the <br> tag. (Can
also use <p> … </p> as well – this is the paragraph tag and creates line breaks as well).
<marquee> … </marquee>
This creates a “crawler” or scrolling marquee of text across the screen.
<font color=”red”> </font red>
This allows you to specify the font color for the text between the tags. You can also use numeric
codes for font colors if preferred. You must put quotes around the font color.
<font size=”number”> … </font>
Allows you to specify the font size. Font sizes range from 1 (smallest) to 7 (largest) with 3 being
the default size for normal text. You must put quotes around the font size number
