Form Entry Formatting Tips

You have probably noticed that no matter how many carraige returns or extra spaces you include in your form entries, they always come out as one block of text. Here are some tips for getting your text to look pretty:

• Making text in an announcement a link

  
  If you are posting a URL in an announcement, and you would like to make it a link so people can jump right to the web location, surround it with anchor tags:
  
  <a href="http://www.theURL.com">www.theURL.com</a>
  
  For example, if you type:
  
  

  <a href="http://www.perezkrewe.com">www.perezkrewe.com</a>

  
  You will get:
  
  

  www.perezkrewe.com

  
  
  

• If you want a hard carriage return to be displayed,
  type break tags ("<BR>") wherever you want to see the carriage return.

  You can type multiple break tags in a row if you want to see blank lines.
  
  For example, if you type:
  
  V

  This is sample text. I'm hoping my carriage return will show up.

  
  You will get:
  
  

  This is sample text. I'm hoping my carriage return will show up.

  
  
  HOWEVER, if you type:
  
  

  This is sample text.<BR><BR> I'm hoping my carriage return will show up.

  
  
  You will get:
  
  

  This is sample text. I'm hoping my carriage return will show up.





• If you want extra spaces in between words,
  type non-breaking space indicators ("&nbsp;") wherever you want to see an extra space.

  For example:
  
  

  These      spaces      will      collapse<BR> but &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    these spaces    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    will appear.

  
  
  Will be displayed as:
  
  

  These spaces will collapse but     these spaces     will appear.