UBC VISTA TIPS

Argh, so I don’t know if any of you have experienced this extremely frustrating aspect of the discussion boards on vista. Every time you write up a decent chunk of text and press enter your formatting goes completely haywire! On top of that trying to work in the HTML editor really does not work!!!

Anyways so far I have found that the best way to get any type of formatting i.e. paragraphs, line breaks is to use plain and simple HTML code. Just tick the “use html” button at the bottom of the posting framey thing.

For a line break: type inĀ <br>.

For an entire empty line: type in <p> at the beginning and </p> at the end.

For an indent: type in &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; to give you four empty spaces.

And if you are trying to insert a link try fiddling around with the html editor thing or you could try using: <a href=”put url here”> put the text you want to appear here</a>

Hope this helps… I am not really familiar with html at all, but at least I found a way to insert paragraphs into my posts! It worked for me and hopefully it might work for you!