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Please note that there is no need to check the '... is HTML' box if all you want to do is include links:
<a href="url">link text</a>
images:
<img src="url">
and other simple tags:
<b>bold text</b>
<i>italic text</i>
<blockquote>quoted text</blockquote>
in your articles.
However, if you want to use more complex HTML (such as tables or lists) then you need to check the '... is HTML' checkbox and enter all paragraph or linebreak tags by hand.
Here is a short list of common HTML tags:
| HTML Tag | Requires "Article is HTML"
to be checked? | Effect | | <b>bold text</b> | N | bold text | | <i>italic text</i> | N | italic text | | <u>underlined text</u> | N | underlined text | | <a href="index.pl">link to local page index.pl</a> | N | link to local page index.pl | | <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/">link to remote site http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/</a> | N | link to remote site http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ | | <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/" target="_blank">ditto, opens new window</a> | N | ditto, opens new window | | Inline image: <img src="images/xml.gif" align="bottom"> | N | Inline image:  | | <img src="images/NVC/mozilla.gif" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="3">Image aligned left with the text wrapping around it, with 5 pixels of horizontal space either side and 3 pixels of vertical space above and below. | N |  Image aligned left with the text wrapping around it, with 5 pixels of horizontal space either side and 3 pixels of vertical space above and below. | A list of items with bullet points
<ul>
<li>list item 1</li>
<li>list item 2</li>
</ul> | Y | A list of items with bullet points
| A numbered list of items
<ol>
<li>list item 1</li>
<li>list item 2</li>
</ol> | Y | A numbered list of items
- list item 1
- list item 2
| Simple table
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>R1C1</td><td>R1C2</td><td align="center">R1C3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>R2C1</td><td>R2C2</td><td align="center">R2C3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>R3C1</td><td colspan="2" align="center">R3C2+3</td>
</tr>
</table> | Y | Simple table
| R1C1 | R1C2 | R1C3 | | R2C1 | R2C2 | R2C3 | | R3C1 | R3C2+3 | |
There are many excellent HTML tutorials available on the Web, which cover more ground than this article does.
Finally, when using HTML in Novacaster, you do not need to include the <html>, <head> or <body> tags - because the text you enter is wrapped up inside an HTML template that defines the structure of the page and already includes those tags.
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