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How to use HTML in visit narratives

When you submit a confluence visit, your narrative is presented on the confluence webpage using HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the language used to create webpages. The information below should help you properly create your visit narrative for submission to our website.

The two most common things you need to know about are how to indicate paragraphs, and how to create links. You do not need to know much about HTML, and we do not support the full range of HTML tags in visit narratives.

Do not write your narrative in programs such as Microsoft Word and then use the program's 'save as HTML' option. Always save your narrative as plain text. It's best to write your narrative first, and save it, then you can "cut & paste" the text into the webpage form when you enter your visit submission.

Paragraphs

Please make sure to break your narrative up into paragraphs. At a minimum, leave a blank line between each paragraph. When the regional coordinator reviews your visit submission, one of their tasks is to review the narrative, and that includes using HTML to indicate each paragraph.

If you use the correct HTML tags to indicate your paragraphs it would make life easier for the regional coordinators, and would help ensure that your narrative ends up on the confluence webpage looking as you intended. Start every paragraph with the opening paragraph tag <p> and end every paragraph with the closing paragraph tag </p>.

For example, if in your narrative you had the following:

<p>We set out from home, and drove east on the highway, and then turned
off onto the Old Mine gravel road. After driving up this road 5 kilometers,
we had to park our car, due to a washout.</p>
<p>We started hiking at 10:00AM, along the old gravel road. It was almost
noon by the time we came to the end of the road, so we decided to stop
there and have lunch, and also to explore the remnants of the old mining
equipment.</p>

it would be displayed on the confluence page as:

We set out from home, and drove east on the highway, and then turned off onto the Old Mine gravel road. After driving up this road 5 kilometers, we had to park our car, due to a washout.

We started hiking at 10:00AM, along the old gravel road. It was almost noon by the time we came to the end of the road, so we decided to stop there and have lunch, and also to explore the remnants of the old mining equipment.

Links

Other Tags, etc.