Formatting:
To keep formatting and text readable across the site, we recommend using a limited palette of formatting styles, listed below
Heading 1 (Shift+Alt+1)
Heading 2 (Shift+Alt+2)
Paragraph (Shift+Alt+7)
These can be selected using this button on the editor toolbar:
Lists:
Bullet list:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered list
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Multi level lists or indented lists are not catered for. Use at your own risk.
Links
Highlight your text, then click this symbol in the toolbar and type in the URL you would like to link to.
Links look like this.
Inserting pictures
Here you can upload photos. Be mindful of size, JPEGs and other compressed file types are greatly preferred. Excessive size or quantity of photos can slow down the website for users.
This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this:
Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin’ caught in the rain.)
…or something like this:
The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, and has been providing quality doohickeys to the public ever since. Located in Gotham City, XYZ employs over 2,000 people and does all kinds of awesome things for the Gotham community.
As a new WordPress user, you should go to your dashboard to delete this page and create new pages for your content. Have fun!
Testing display of HTML elements H1
This is 2nd level heading H2
This is a test paragraph.
This is 3rd level heading H3
This is a test paragraph.
This is 4th level heading H4
This is a test paragraph.
This is 5th level heading H5
This is a test paragraph.
This is 6th level heading H6
This is a test paragraph.
Basic block level elements
This is a normal paragraph (p
element). To add some length to it, let us mention that this page was primarily written for testing the effect of user style sheets. You can use it for various other purposes as well, like just checking how your browser displays various HTML elements by default. It can also be useful when testing conversions from HTML format to other formats, since some elements can go wrong then.
This is another paragraph. I think it needs to be added that the set of elements tested is not exhaustive in any sense. I have selected those elements for which it can make sense to write user style sheet rules, in my opionion.
This is a div
element. Authors may use such elements instead of paragraph markup for various reasons. (End of div
.)
This is a block quotation containing a single paragraph. Well, not quite, since this is not really quoted text, but I hope you understand the point. After all, this page does not use HTML markup very normally anyway.
The following contains address information about the author, in an address
element.Jukka Korpela, jkorpela@cs.tut.fi
Pivnsteenkuja 4 A, Espoo, Finland
Lists
This is a paragraph before an unnumbered list (ul
). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can’t guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a “list header”.
- One.
- Two.
- Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that for short items lists look better if they are compactly presented, whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.
- Four. This is the last item in this list. Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.
The following is a menu
list: One. Two. Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer so that it will probably wrap to the next line in rendering.
The following is a dir
list: One. Two. Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer so that it will probably wrap to the next line in rendering.
This is a paragraph before a numbered list (ol
). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can’t guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a “list header”.
- One.
- Two.
- Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that if items are short, lists look better if they are compactly presented, whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.
- Four. This is the last item in this list. Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.
This is a paragraph before a definition list (dl
). In principle, such a list should consist of terms and associated definitions. But many authors use dl
elements for fancy “layout” things. Usually the effect is not too bad, if you design user style sheet rules for dl
which are suitable for real definition lists. recursion see recursion recursion, indirect see indirect recursion indirect recursion see recursion, indirect term a word or other expression taken into specific use in a well-defined meaning, which is often defined rather rigorously, even formally, and may differ quite a lot from an everyday meaning
Text-level markup
- CSS (an abbreviation;
abbr
markup used) - radar (an acronym;
acronym
markup used) - bolded (
b
markup used – just bolding with unspecified semantics) - big thing (
big
markup used) - large size (
font size=6
markup used) - Courier font (
font face=Courier
markup used) - red text (
font color=red
markup used) - Origin of Species (a book title;
cite
markup used) a[i] = b[i] + c[i);
(computer code;code
markup used)- here we have some
deletedtext (del
markup used) - an octet is an entity consisting of eight bits (
dfn
markup used for the term being defined) - this is very simple (
em
markup used for emphasizing a word) - Homo sapiens (should appear in italics;
i
markup used) - here we have some inserted text (
ins
markup used) - type yes when prompted for an answer (
kbd
markup used for text indicating keyboard input) Hello!
(q
markup used for quotation)- He said:
She said Hello!
(a quotation inside a quotation) - you may get the message Core dumped at times (
samp
markup used for sample output) - this is not that important (
small
markup used) - overstruck (
strike
markup used; note:s
is a nonstandard synonym forstrike
) - this is highlighted text (
strong
markup used) - In order to test how subscripts and superscripts (
sub
andsup
markup) work inside running text, we need some dummy text around constructs like x1 and H2O (where subscripts occur). So here is some fill so that you will (hopefully) see whether and how badly the subscripts and superscripts mess up vertical spacing between lines. Now superscripts: Mlle, 1st, and then some mathematical notations: ex, sin2 x, and some nested superscripts (exponents) too: ex2 and f(x)g(x)a+b+c (where 2 and a+b+c should appear as exponents of exponents). - text in monospace font (
tt
markup used) - underlined text (
u
markup used) - the command
cat
filename displays the file specified by the filename (var
markup used to indicate a word as a variable).
Some of the elements tested above are typically displayed in a monospace font, often using the same presentation for all of them. This tests whether that is the case on your browser:
This is sample text inside code markup
- This is sample text inside kbd markup
- This is sample text inside samp markup
- This is sample text inside tt markup
Links
This is a text paragraph that contains some inline links. Generally, inline links (as opposite to e.g. links lists) are problematic from the usability perspective, but they may have use as incidental, less relevant links. See the document Links Want To Be Links.
Forms
This is a form containing various fields (with some initial values (defaults) set, so that you can see how input text looks like without actually typing it): Button: Reset button: Single-line text input field: Multi-line text input field (textarea):Default text.
The following two radio buttons are inside a fieldset
element with a legend
: Legend Radio button 1 Radio button 2 (initially checked) Check those that apply Checkbox 1 Checkbox 2 (initially checked) A select
element with size="1"
(dropdown box): A select
element with size="3"
(listbox):
Submit button:
Tables
The following table has a caption. The first row and the first column contain table header cells (th
elements) only; other cells are data cells (td
elements), with align="right"
attributes:
Country | Total area | Land area |
---|---|---|
Denmark | 43,070 | 42,370 |
Finland | 337,030 | 305,470 |
Iceland | 103,000 | 100,250 |
Norway | 324,220 | 307,860 |
Sweden | 449,964 | 410,928 |
Character test
The following table has some sample characters with annotations. If the browsers default font does not contain all of them, they may get displayed using backup fonts. This may cause stylistic differences, but it should not prevent the characters from being displayed at all.
Char. | Explanation | Notes |
---|---|---|
e with circumflex | Latin 1 character, should be ok | |
em dash | Windows Latin 1 character, should be ok, too | |
Ā | A with macron (line above) | Latin Extended-A character, not present in all fonts |
Ω | capital omega | A Greek letter |
− | minus sign | Unicode minus |
⌀ | diameter sign | relatively rare in fonts |
Hyphenation
In the following, a width setting should cause some hyphenation, depending on support to various methods of hyphenation.
CSS-based hyphenation
Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors.
JavaScript-driven hyphenation
Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors.
Explicit hyphenation hints (soft hyphens)
This is a test of inline pictures
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This is a test of inline pictures with words to the right of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the right of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the right of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the right of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the right of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the right of the picture
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This is a test of inline pictures with words to the left of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the left of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the left of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the left of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the left of the picture
This is a test of inline pictures with words to the left of the picture
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