Today I got a note from Carol who hangs out at BetterPhoto ... "How can I force line breaks into my text?"

Well, Carol, welcome to the world of HTML coding :-D

I just have one challenge. I'm not familiar with HTML enough to know how to force the HTML to show up as text. If I type in the HTML code exactly as you need to use it, the program I use will automatically apply it as code (just like BetterPhoto does) instead of displaying it as text. HTML applied as code is invisible to the person viewing the page.

So ... I'm going to refer you to Annabella. I found Annabella by hunting about (via google) for help in coding colors into my pages. I've not introduced myself to Annabella but I like her style of mmm "aging gracefully."

Annabella's pages on web page construction were written some time back and things have advanced a bit ... but the basics are still the basics and that is where we all start: Annabella's Basic HTML

You need to understand the following sections: Brackets, Case Sensitive, and Opening & Closing tags. Then read about paragraphs and line breaks.

One note about Annabella's explanation of paragraphs ... there was indeed a time when the "closing tag" was routinely not used in paragraphs. Before that time and since that time closing tags for paragraphs were/are considered to be tidy code.

When putting in my coding at BetterPhoto, I find it works best to open and close the paragraph tags before putting in my line breaks.

Also, where Annabella says "This misses one line ...", the American translation on that is: "The paragraph tag creates a blank line above the paragraph tag ..."

When you get paragraphs and line breaks down, the fun really starts with creating links.

Alright have fun and let me know how it goes.