Basic HTML & Blackboard

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Even though HTML isn’t a supercomputing application, the National. Center for Supercomputing Applications has a great HTML tutorial. And …

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Page 1 Formatting Text with HTML
Basic HTML & Blackboard
A Blackboard Tip Sheet
Purpose
By default, Blackboard 5 will format text to 12-point, left-justified Arial. Any other
formatting must be done with HTML codes. This Blackboard Tip Sheet will
introduce you to some basic HTML codes you can use yourself to add simple
formatting to Blackboard documents.
What is HTML?
The acronym HTML stands for HyperText Mark-up Language. It is the set of
codes used to format (or “mark up”) Web pages. A single piece of HTML code is
called a “tag.” HTML tags are surrounded by pointed brackets (”<" and ">“), also
known as the greater-than and less-than symbols. Tags usually come in pairs.
The tags will format the text between the beginning tag and the end tag of the
pair.
For example the pair of HTML tags to create bold text looks like this:
This text will be bold.
The tag means “start bold here.” The end tag, , means “end bold here.”
End tags always include the forward slash (”/”).
Using HTML in Blackboard
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