Read Between the Wines discussion

One of my favorite features of this site is that it allows for the use of some light HTML. This is great for providing links; creating bold, italicized, underlined, or struck-out text; inserting book cover art or web hosted images; or hiding book spoilers.

Here is a list of HTML tags I find useful. Some of these are listed in the “some html is ok” link, but I included additional tags, as well.

: <img src="enter image host address here" width="250"/>

hyperlink: <a href="enter web address here">enter display text here</a>

bold: <b>enter text here</b>

italics: <i>enter text here</i>

underline: <u>enter text here</u>

strikeout: <s>enter text here</s>

(view spoiler)[hello, spoiler! (hide spoiler)]: <spoiler>enter spoiler here</spoiler>

block quote: <blockquote>enter block quote here</blockquote>

en dash (–): &ndash;

em dash (—): &mdash;

cent sign (¢): &cent;

pound sterling (£): &pound;

euro sign (€): &euro;

copyright (©): &copy;

registered (®): &reg;

trademark (™): &trade;

degree sign (°): &deg;

superscript one (¹): &sup1;

superscript two (²): &sup2;

superscript three (³): &sup3;

one-quarter (¼): &frac14;

one-half (½): &frac12;

three-quarters (¾): &frac34;

division sign (÷): &divide;

multiplication sign (×): &times;

plus-minus sign (±): &plusmn;

infinity sign (∞): &infin;

not equal sign (≠): &ne;

Diacritical Marks (insert appropriate letter in the space shown):

grave accent (ù): &_grave;

acute accent (é): &_acute;

circumflex (î): &_circ;

umlaut (ö): &_uml;

tilde (ñ): &_tilde;

cedilla (ç): &_cedil;

ring (Å): &_ring;

"ae" ligature (æ): &aelig;

"AE" ligature (Æ): &AElig;

inverted exclamation mark (¡): &iexcl;

inverted question mark (¿): &iquest;

middle dot (·): &middot;

bullet (•): &bull;

check mark (✓): &#10003;

open star (☆): &#9734;

closed star (★): &#9733;

heart (♥): &hearts;

left arrow (←): &larr;

right arrow (→): &rarr;

up arrow (↑): &uarr;

down arrow (↓): &darr;

double-headed arrow (↔): &harr;

musical eighth note (♪): &#9834;

beamed pair of eighth notes (♫): &#9835;

Also, all 24 upper-case and 24 lower-case letters of the Greek alphabet are available by using the following HTML tag template: &Name; (for upper-case), or &name; (for lower-case).

Examples:
Greek lower-case letter alpha (α): &alpha;
Greek upper-case letter sigma (Σ): &Sigma;

Finally, you can copy and paste any HTML web address directly into Goodreads and it should form a nice truncated link automatically, as such: http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/spch...

Wish I had read this first. I was just wishing I knew how to hyperlink something.

It's a great guide! I just posted this yesterday, after we talked about the spoiler tags.
Here's a bunch more: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/in...

and this one I was afraid to mention because of its overuse on Facebook, but:
&hearts; = ♥

Oh, and stars!
solid star (★): &#9733;
open star (☆): &#9734;

e.g., I rated Let the Great World Spin as such: ★★★★☆

Also, arrows:
(←, →, ↑, ↓, ↔)

left arrow (←): &larr;
right arrow (→): &rarr;
up arrow (↑): &uarr;
down arrow (↓): &darr;
double-headed arrow (↔): &harr;

Deck the harrs with boughs of horry,
♪♫ Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra! ♪♫


To parse:

eighth note (♪): &#9834;

beamed pair of
eighth notes (♫): &#9835;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTq20p...