USEFUL HTML COMMANDS, 29 January 2008

Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse@indiana.edu This file is now at http://www.rasmusen.org/a/html-rasmusen.htm

This page contains HTML commands that I often need to look up. To see the commands themselves, use VIEW SOURCE. This page is not yet tidied up.

HTML Escape Sequences* To use one of these characters in an HTML document, you must enter its escape sequence instead. The semicolon is optional if you have a blank space after the character, but otherwise you need it to separate off the escape sequence character from the next character, e.g. "x &lt y and x&lt;y and x&lty" becomes "x < y and x<y and x<y"

&lt; the escape sequence for <
&gt; the escape sequence for >
&& the escape sequence for &
&quot; the escape sequence for "

&exist &exist &forall &forall; ∈ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ∼ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ′ • ∂

"±" "¹" "²" "³" "ℜ" from http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html

A &Alpha &Alpha &alpha &alpha alpha         B &beta beta         &Gamma &gamma gamma         &Delta &delta delta         E &epsilon epsilon        Z &zeta zeta        H &eta eta       

&Theta &theta theta        I &iota iota        K &kappa kappa        &Lambda &lambda lambda        M &mu mu        N &nu nu        &Xi &xi xi        &Omicron &omicron omicron       

&Pi &pi pi        P &rho rho        &Sigma &sigma sigma        T &tau tau        &Upsilon &upsilon upsilon        &Phi &phi phi        X &chi chi        &Psi &psi psi        &Omega &omega omega

THE HEBREW ALPHABET: אבגדהוז חטיכלמנסעפ צקרשת for tcdsvuzjyhfknbxgpmera, aleph א--- bethב--- gimel ג--- daleth ד--- he ה--- vav ו--- zayin ז--- chet ח---tet ט--- yod י--- kaph כ--- lamed ל--- mem מ---nun נ--- samech ס---ayin ע---pe פ--- tsadi צ---quph ק--- resh ר---shin ש--- tav ת Maybe I'll add the vowels here someday.

A list of symbols is at: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html

Another way is to use the symbol font: l

"Ultimate Cool Characters" says Combining diacritical marks can be used to add a diacritical mark to a desired character. Type the number code for the desired mark immediately after the character you would like to add it to. For example, typing My name is B̃ob would appear as My name is B~ob. Note that this only works for the characters labeled as combining marks (combining grave, combining acute, combining tilde, combining hook above, and combining dot below).

FOR IMAGE CAPTIONS:

Eggs

It is useful to have a way to tell text to go on past the image. That is the next command.
Now we go on.

<STYLE type="text/css"> BODY { background-color: white } body { font-family: trebuchet ms, arial} <!-- .verse-num{ vertical-align: super; margin-left: 0em;margin-right: -3pt; font-size:-4} .woc{color:red; } --> </STYLE>

this is an unindented paragraph.

Here is where the internal link goes to

dfgsfgsgsfgsf

(return to that internal lnk location

<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- P { text-indent: 2em } --> <
/STYLE>

Presidential Election Data,

State	Votes
Maine	4
Indiana	12

DL and DT are good for lists with headings. You can, in effect, delete the unnecessary extra vertical space that the ol and ul lists add automatically before and after the list. They are for "definition lists". I combine them with the usual ul li unordered list command below.

January 30. Introduction to Antitrust

To read:

• Viscusi, Chapter 3.
• FTC "Frequently Asked Questions" on antitrust law.

For Reference:

• Verizon v. Trinko , 540 U.S. 398 (2004)
• "U.S. Judge Blocks Antitrust Case against Shipping Giant Stolt," William Bulkely, The Wall Street Journal, 17 January 2005.

LISTS:

for no dots in the list. *none* can be replaced by other kinds of counters.

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This will align the paragraph that follows it on the right.

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This is the text that will get deleted

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To change font size:

These commands can be repeated for additional effect.

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Rasmusen homepage will open the page in a new window

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EXPANSIONS:
"Getting Carried Away in Auctions as Imperfect Value Discovery" . Bidders have to decide whether and when to incur the cost of estimating their own values in auctions. This can explain why people seem to get carried away, bidding higher than they had planned before the auction and then finding they had paid more than the object was worth to them. Even when [more]

Then have another file, temp1.htm, with something that is an expanded version. The following will open a new window and jump right to the text. "Getting Carried Away in Auctions as Imperfect Value Discovery". Bidders have to decide whether and when to incur the cost of estimating their own values in auctions. This can explain why people seem to get carried away, bidding higher than they had planned before the auction and then finding they had paid more than the object was worth to them. Even when such behavior is rational, ex ante, it may be perceived as irrational if one ignores other situations in which people revise their bid ceilings upwards and are happy when that enables them to win the auction.

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PAGE BREAKS FOR PRINTING

Here is where page one ends.

Here is where page two starts and ends.
Here is where page three starts.
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ADDING SPACE
To put extra vertical space:
 
That middle thing is a non-breaking space.
Or, try this, which will put dots in too: .
.
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For horizontal space, use a similar command for a blank space. For a one-time paragraph indent, type:
    
I don't know how to put in negative vertical or horizontal space, though I've searched for that.
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UNFORMATTED TEXT
 put the unformatted text here
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BULLET POINTS
You will discover &bull;, which means •, which you can also enlarge. Here is the input:
&bull;
<big> &bull; </big> <p>
<big> <big> <big> <big> <big> & bull; </big> </big> </big> </big> </big><p>
Here is what it looks like on the screen: •
•
•
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As far referencing pages in higher directories, this can be done by using two periods ../ For example if you would like to link to a the directory right above your current one it might look like this: Check out this page For a page two directories up: Check out this page
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SUPERCRIPTS AND SUBSCRIPTS:
X_ij, or X^nt
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FOOTNOTES
Make a deal with Sears to distribute it. ¹ Why did this invention come only after almost five million others?
Footnotes
1 Go to the U.S. patent office site and search by patent number. Sears's description of the Pocket Socket can be found by searching for that name at Www.sears.com
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Use Google for search boxes.
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saj (return)
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For Paragraph Indentation in HTML:
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COMMENTS
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TEMPLATE FOR OVERHEADS
March 9, 2004
G492
Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse@indiana.edu
WARREN BUFFETT'S ANNUAL LETTER
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In google:
link: www.rasmusen.org/x/
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Arvind Satyanarayan's "Toggle Visibility - Show/Hide Anything" is worth knowing about. (Click here to read more.)
It is Javascript code for HTML files such that if you click on certain text, other text appears or disappears, toggling from its current state. As modified by Manu Agrawal in the comments and by me (he had a typo I think), what you do is put the following just after the <pre> < body> </pre> command in the HTML file (maybe anywhere after it would do)

<!-- Arvind Satyanarayan script added by John Smith on Oct XX, 20XX. -->
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function toggle_visibility(id) {
var e = document.getElementById(id);
if(e.style.display == 'block')
e.style.display = 'none';
else
e.style.display = 'block';
}
//-->
</script>
Then, to display "(Click here to read more.)" and have "Here is where all the rest of the post would go." display when "(Click here to read more.)" is clicked (or concealed when it is clicked again), insert

<a href="#" onclick="toggle_visibility('07oct2');">(Click here to read more.)</a>

<div id="07oct2" style='display:none'>
Here is where all the rest of the post would go.
</div>
You can insert as many of these as you like in one file, with just one insertion of the script, so long as you give distinct titles, not "07oct2" to the second and later concealed sections.
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INSERTING PDF INTO HTML
This method didn't really work for me-- the width wouldn't work. BUt here it is, for reference.
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URL: http://www.rasmusen.org/a/html-rasmusen.htm. Comments: Erasmuse@Indiana.edu. HR>