Most of the code I use here is based on the paragraph HTML-code.

<p> Your text here </p>

Notice that it starts with <p>
and ends with </p>

These are called the opening and close tags. Your text should go between those two tags.

Paragraph tags are great because after the closing paragraph tag your next text will automatically go on the next line. In squidoo you can also just push <enter> - but that won't work in ordinary HTML

The other basic HTML tag I use is bold:

<b>your text here</b>

Opening tag: <b>
Closing tag: </b>

This can be in a paragraph - and works if you want to style a single word.

So the basic message here is: if you want your text styled, use both the opening and the closing HTML-tags.

This is a style I like to use when I want some of the look of 'the most important thing' module, but not all.

Opening tag:
<p style="border: solid 10px #ff6600; padding: 10px">

Closing tag: </p>

This is the precise color of light blue that is used in the new contents at a glance and explore related pages part of squidoo. I haven't used this yet, but for unity of style on a page, this could really work

Opening tag:
<p style="background: #E1E8F2; padding: 15px; margin: 0;">

Closing tag: </p>

This is the background-color used in the 'created by' bit that's at the top of each lens. For a consistent look throughout a lens it could be used to highlight text in a way that's not too flashy. (Orange is flashy, light yellow is more mellow - yes that rimed).

Opening tag:
<p style="background: #FCF8C0; padding:15px; margin: 0;">

Closing tag: </p>

I use this for quotes sometimes. It gives a nice contrast and the colors go well with the squidoo colorscheme

Opening tag:
<p style="color: #1f94bf; line-height: 1em;
font-size: 150%; font-family: 'courier new'; padding: 10px;">

Closing tag: </p>

Similarly - combined with a bold font, the effect can be a bit more striking.

Opening tag:
<p style="color: #1f94bf; line-height: 1em;
font-size: 150%; font-family: 'courier new'; padding: 10px;"><b>

Don't forget to close both the bold and the paragraph tags like this: </b></p>

This text is bold, blue, larger than usual and has space between the lines that you probably won't notice but still makes it more legible.

Opening tag:
<p style="color: #1f94bf; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px; margin: 10px;">

Closing tag: </p>

For a calmer effect this color, with a font-size just a few pixels larger than the usual squidoo font-size can work very well.

Opening tag:
<p style="color: #069; font-size: 150%; ">

Closing tag: </p>

this is the precise color the headings and links have in squidoo

Opening tag:
<p style="color:#046381;">

Closing tag: </p>

This text is bold, but no larger than the standard font-size. The color is another variety of blue.

Opening tag:
<p style="color: #1f94bf; font-weight: bold">

Closing tag: </p>

I've used these orange letters on a jokes page. The orange is related to the several orange colors in use on squidoo. the font-size is just a bit larger than the standard-squidoo lettering and the style is bold

Opening tag:
<p style="color: #f60; font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold">

Closing tag: </p>

So far I've shown how to give a whole paragraph a new look, because that's what I usually do. But sometimes it's just fun to turn some text red right in the middle of a paragraph.
Opening tag:
<b style="color: red">

Close this off with: </b>

For all you HTML or CSS-coding geeks on squidoo... it looks like squidoo disables the following:

• font-size in pixels (px)


• <hr> :horizontal lines


• i-frames

Let me know in the guestbook what disabled HTML features I missed.