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Valid Formatting Styles

This page shows examples of the formatting available through the HTML editor on the Page Detail screen. Refer to these examples to see what your formatting choices will look like when displayed on your website.

Note that not all of these formatting tools may be available on your website. Because your website environment allows for multiple content contributors, your site designer may have restricted the formatting options in order to maintain a consistent content appearance across the website. In these cases, you may be able to apply formatting on the HTML editor on the Page Detail screen, but your site's default formatting will override when the page is viewed on your browser.

Example Headlines:

Section Headline 1

Section Headline 2

Section Headline 3

Section Headline 4

Section Headline 5
Section Headline 6

Note: By using the appropriate descending headline settings, you
can indicate not only content sections, but the relative importance
of sections to users, search engines and accessibility tools for the
disabled.

Example of Normal Text:

Although the basic rules of typography are much the same for both Web pages and conventional print documents, type on-screen and type printed on paper are different in crucial ways. The computer screen renders typefaces at a much lower resolution than is found in books, magazines, and even pages output from inexpensive printers. Most magazine and book typography is rendered at 1200 dots per inch (dpi) or greater, whereas computer screens rarely show more than about 85 dpi. Also, the useable area of typical computer screens is smaller than most magazine and book pages, limiting the information you can deliver on a Web page without scrolling.

But perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of Web typography is its variability. Web pages are built on the fly each time they are loaded into a Web browser. Each line of text, each headline, each unique font and type style is re-created by a complex interaction of the Web browser, the Web server, and the operating system of the reader's computer. The process is fraught with possibilities for the unexpected: a missing font, an out-of-date browser, or a peculiar set of font preferences designated by the reader. You should regard your Web page layouts and typography as suggestions of how your pages should be rendered - you'll never know exactly how they will look on the reader's screen.

Example of a Numeric List:

  1. test one
  2. test two
  3. test three

Example of a Bullet List:

  • bullet one
  • bullet two
  • bullet three

Example of character formatting:

** This sentence should be bold **
** This sentence should be in italics **
** This sentence should be underlined **