Help:TootCat/HTML/formatting

formatting posts with HTML

Note that the "Markdown" formatting option supports all of the tags supported by the HTML option (i.e. it's a superset), and Markdown supports some things that HTML does not -- so we recommend using the Markdown option rather than HTML only.

The following applies to both the HTML and Markdown options; see Markdown for syntax that only works in the Markdown option.

Tags

I've posted these examples on TootCat so you can see how they look in practice.

<h2>Character formatting</h2>
* <b>bold</b>
* <i>italic</i>
* <u>underline</u>
* <sup>superscript</sup> -- e.g.: E=MC<sup>2</sup>
* <sub>subscript</sub> -- e.g.: H<sub>2</sub>O

<h2>Lists</h2>
<ul><li>item one<li>item two</ul>
<ol><li>item one<li>item two</ol>
<h2>Links</h2>
* #<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/softwareGripe">softwareGripe</a> - link to a hashtag feed without indexing the post containing the link
* #<a href="https://toot.cat/@woozle/tagged/softwareGripe">softwareGripe @ Woozle</a> - link to only posts in that hashtag by a specific user

NOT SUPPORTED:
 <pre>, <tt>, <s>