May 27, 2012

Unofficial DU3 Basic HTML Reference Lookup Table

Bold
[b]Text[/b]

Italic
[i]Text[/i]

Underline
[u]Text[/u]

Strikethrough
[strike]Text[/strike]

Highlight
[highlight]Text[/highlight]

Monospace font
[monospace]Text[/monospace]

Subscript
[sub]Text[/sub]

Superscript
[sup]Text[/sup]

Indented blockquote
[blockquote]Text[/blockquote]

Excerpt with light grey background
[excerpt]Text[/excerpt]

Hyperlink
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with http://

Hyperlink from text
[link:URL|Text]
(URL should include the http://)

Example:
[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com|DU4]

Images
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with http://
(Image filename must end with gif, jpg, or png file extension)

Example:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/imgs/logo.gif

Unordered Lists
[ul]
[li]Text
[li]Text
...
[/ul]

Ordered Lists
[ol]
[li]Text
[li]Text
...
[/ol]

Video Embedding (YouTube only)
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with https://

Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqzPu5pX6U
https://youtu.be/VyqzPu5pX6U

Embedding Tweets
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with https://twitter.com

Example:
https://twitter.com/demunderground/status/823960344548806656

Embedding Toots (Mastadon social media)
No tags needed
Just paste the URL starting with https://

Example:
https://mastodon.online/@pkrugman/109718199496975168

(NOTE: this only works for a limited number of Mastodon domains)


Preventing Embedding
For YouTube videos, add t=0& after the ? in the video URL.

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=0&v=VyqzPu5pX6U

For Tweets, change domain from twitter.com to x.com in URL

Example:
https://x.com/demunderground/status/823960344548806656

For Mastodon, add %3 before post ID in URL

Example:
https://mastodon.online/@pkrugman/%3109718199496975168