Testing display of HTML elements:
This is a test paragraph.
This is a test paragraph.
This is a test paragraph.
This is a test paragraph.
This is a test paragraph.
This is a normal paragraph (p
element). To add some length to it, let us mention that this page was primarily written for testing the effect of user style sheets. You can use it for various other purposes as well, like just checking how your browser displays various HTML elements.
This is another paragraph. I think it needs to be added that the set of elements tested is not exhaustive in any sense. I have selected those elements for which it can make sense to write user style sheet rules, in my opionion.
div
element. Authors may use such elements instead of paragraph markup for various reasons. (End of div
.)This is a block quotation containing a single paragraph. Well, not quite, since this is not really quoted text, but I hope you understand the point. After all, this page does not use HTML markup very normally anyway.
The following contains address information about the author, in an address
element.
This is a paragraph before an unnumbered list (ul
). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can’t guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a “list header”.
This is a paragraph before a numbered list (ol
). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can’t guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a “list header”.
This is a paragraph before a definition list (dl
). In principle, such a list should consist of terms and associated definitions. But many authors use dl
elements for fancy “layout” things. Usually the effect is not too bad, if you design user style sheet rules for dl
which are suitable for real definition lists.
abbr
markup used)acronym
markup used)b
markup used – just bolding with unspecified semantics)big
markup used)cite
markup used)a[i] = b[i] + c[i);
(computer code; code
markup used)del
markup used)dfn
markup used for the term being defined)em
markup used for emphasizing a word)i
markup used)ins
markup used)kbd
markup used for text indicating keyboard input)Hello!(
q
markup used for quotation)She said(a quotation inside a quotation)Hello!
samp
markup used for sample output)small
markup used)strike
markup used; note: s
is a nonstandard synonym for strike
)strong
markup used)sub
and sup
markup) work inside running text, we need some dummy text around constructs like x1 and H2O (where subscripts occur). So here is some fill so that you will (hopefully) see whether and how badly the subscripts and superscripts mess up vertical spacing between lines. Now superscripts: Mlle, 1st, and then some mathematical notations: ex, sin2 x, and some nested superscripts (exponents) too: ex2 and f(x)g(x)a+b+c (where 2 and a+b+c should appear as exponents of exponents).tt
markup used)u
markup used)cat
filename displays the file specified by the filename (var
markup used to indicate a word as a variable).Some of the elements tested above are typically displayed in a monospace font, often using the same presentation for all of them. This tests whether that is the case on your browser:
This is sample text inside code markup
This is a text paragraph that contains some inline links. Generally, inline links (as opposite to e.g. links lists) are problematic from the usability perspective, but they may have use as “incidental”, less relevant links. See the document Links Want To Be Links.
The following table has a caption. The first row and the first column contain table header cells (th
elements) only; other cells are data cells (td
elements), with align="right"
attributes:
Country | Total area | Land area |
---|---|---|
Denmark | 43,070 | 42,370 |
Finland | 337,030 | 305,470 |
Iceland | 103,000 | 100,250 |
Norway | 324,220 | 307,860 |
Sweden | 449,964 | 410,928 |