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Most likely, the seller has picked up some HTML code. It’s not as hard as it looks (Believe me, I’m no rocket scientist! but i'm just student) and a little eBay HTML code goes a long way.
Getting Started in HTML code
HTML stands for Hyper-Text Markup Language. It is (for the most part) the primary language of the World Wide Wide. HTML commands are called tags.
Tags are surrounded by angle brackets,
< >, and are usually used in pairs. For example, the start tag, <B> instructs the computer to make text following it bold, while the end tag, </B> instructs the computer to stop making the text bold. In this particular example, the HTML command <B>Text Sample</B> would yield the following result:
Text Sample
Most HTML code tags are not case sensitive (although spelling does count!). Typing <CENTER>Sample Text</CENTER> or <Center>Sample Text</Center> or even <center>Sample Text</center> will yield the same result:
Sample Text
Syntax Continued
A quick note about nesting tags. If you use more than one tag, it is important for you to place the end tags (the tags with the slash: </B>) in the opposite order in which the start tags were typed (the ones without the slash: <B>). Confusing? Here’s an example that I hope will clarify this (If not, read on. We’ll bring up the topic again later.)
If we wanted to make text bold (<B></B>), underlined (<U>,</U>), and italic (<I></I>), we type something like this:
<B><U><I>Something Like This</I></U></B>
Yielding: Something Like This.
Note how the ending tags are in the opposite order of the start tags: <B><U><I> </I></U></B>.
Here’s a more complicated example:
<B><U>A More <I>Complicated</I>Example</U></B>.
Which yields: A More Complicated Example.
Background Color
Some auction sites allow you to specify the background color of your ad. This is done using the <BODY bgcolor=”(color)“> tag. You would of course subsitute (color) with the color of your choice.
There are two ways of doing this. You can simply type a common color name like <BODY bgcolor=”yellow”> which will work for most browsers. Another option which will give you more flexibility in choosing your colors is to use the hexadecimal code.
The tag <BODY bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”> will yield a white background. By now you are probably saying, “O.K. knucklehead, how am I supposed to know what the colors and their corresponding hexadecimal codes are?!?!?!?” No problem, just check out our handy. Bookmark it to keep it handy for future reference.
Note that a closing tag: </BODY> is not required.
Font Sizes
You can select the size of the font in a similar manner. The Tag <font size=”#“></font> will do this for you. Here’s a table with several examples of different font sizes:
<font size=”1“>Font Size 1</font> Font Size 1
<font size=”2“>Font Size 2</font> Font Size 2
<font size=”3“>Font Size 3</font> Font Size 3
<font size=”4“>Font Size 4</font> Font Size 4
<font size=”5“>Font Size 5</font> Font Size 5
<font size=”6“>Font Size 6</font> Font Size 6
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