a, abbr, acronym, address, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, cite, code, col, colgroup, dd, del, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, img, ins, kbd, li, ol, p, pre, q, s, samp, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, var.
<
and >
. Because a less-than symbol defines the beginning of HTML code, emoticons which contain the less-than symbol may break your content. If you would like to use one of these symbols in your content, you can use the HTML code, '<
' for less-than and '>
' for greater-than, instead.<strong>
. The tag for emphasis, which renders as italicized in most browsers, is <em>
. These both require closing tags. They are a good place to start if you aren't familiar with HTML.<a href='[url goes here]'>
. rel=nofollow
is added to all links on AO3 by the parser. If you make changes to your markup after preview, you may see this. This discourages spammers from using AO3 to improve their search rankings, but will not impact the functionality of your link.<img src='[image url goes here]' />
. <h1>
. Heading tags need both opening and closing tags. All text between the opening and closing tags display in the heading style defined in your markup.a
tag in the work is both an anchor point and anchor link. A user can select the '1' annotation link in the work to access the footnote. They can then select the 'Back' link in the footnote to return to where they were in the work.sup
tag. sup
is a text styling tag that can be used on the AO3 following the same instructions as those for the bold and italics formatting.<ul>
. In this markup 'ul' stands for 'unordered list'.<ol>
. In this markup 'ol' stands for 'ordered list'.<li>
. In this markup 'li' stands for 'list item'.