Cheatsheets
TeacherBridge Cheatsheet
- Line breaks are preserved
- Headings: Lines that start with '!' will become headings ('!!' and '!!!' will generate larger headings)
- Lists: Lines that start with '-' will become bulleted lists and lines that start with '#' will become a numbered list. (These may be nested, e.g., '#-'.)
- Tables: Lines that start with '|' will be turned into table rows, with '|' separating table cells. (e.g., '| first cell | second cell | ')
- Breaks: A '_' at the start of a line will be turned into a horizontal rule (a solid line stretching across the page).
- Pre-formatted text: Lines that start with '=' will be treated as pre-formatted. They will use equal-sized characters, like a typewriter.
- Links: Text surrounded by asterisks, *, will be turned into hyperlinks. The text between the *s can either be a URL, or the name of an object in the page's site:
- *My Other Page* would create a link to another page or site named "My Other Page". If this page does not exist, a button will appear on the page (after you save it) that will let you create the new page.
- *http://java.cs.vt.edu/* would create a link that looks like http://java.cs.vt.edu/.
- The link text can be changed, an alias given, by including a '>' sign between the *'s, between the alias and the file name. For example, *My Link>http://java.cs.vt.edu* would create a link like My Link.
- Images, tables, charts, and other objects from the page's site can be embedded in the page by surrounding the object name with '\'. For example, would include the image from a drawing object named "my picture" on the page.
HTML Cheatsheet
- <b>text</b> and <i>text</i> will produce bold text and italic text
- <font color=green>text</font> will produce green text.
- <font size=+1>text</font> will increase the text size by one increment. The size may be from 1 to 7 (default is usually 3) and color may be green, red, blue, yellow, gray, purple, pink, and numerous others.
- <center>text</center> will center the word 'text' on the page like so:
text
- <IMG SRC="TBlogo2.gif" WIDTH=100 ALIGN=RIGHT>
insert the image "TBlogo2.gif", scale the image to 100 pixels wide, and align it to the right side of the page. You can also align LEFT and specifiy an image HEIGHT in this way.
- Enclosing blocks of html in <html></html> tags will disable the shorthand conversion (e.g., lines that start with '!' will not be turned into headings).