Information Technology Reference
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Table 6.1
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Visual Tab
HTML Tab
Meaning
Center
Text centered
Right-align
Text aligned right, ragged left
Link
link
Hyperlink
Break link
Remove hyperlink
More tag
more
Provide special link to the complete post
Spell-check
Check spelling
Full-Screen mode
Expand to editing window only
Show/hide kitchen sink
Display/hide additional formatting options
Paragraph pull-down
code
Various text formatting options
(includes Address,
Preformatted, headings 1-6)
Underline
ul
Underlined text (can confuse readers by looking
like a link)
Centered
Centered image
Text color
Change the display color of text (can confuse
readers who think the text is a link)
Text import
Bring in text from text editor
Word import
Bring in text from Microsoft Word
Remove formatting
Change text to plain, unformatted text
Outdent
Reverse any indenting
Indent
Indent the text by shifting the left margin to the
right
Undo
Reverse most recent change
Redo
Re-instate most recent change
Help
Go to Codex (note that this is not very specific
help)
ins
Inserted text, that is, to note updates
lookup
Look up item in dictionary
close tags
Add ending tags to open items, but check where
WordPress puts them
Character Formatting
The character formatting commands that are made available in WordPress are the ones most widely
supported in HTML: bold, italic, and—a bit of a latecomer to HTML—strikethrough.
Figure 6.3 shows text on the Visual tab of WordPress using the bold, italic, and strikethrough for-
mats. The beginning words of each sentence are in
italic
—
How
,
Where
,
What
,
Why
. The word
you
is repeated in
bold
four times. The word
so
is shown in strikethrough.
