Eufrates Item Types

It adds the html coding necessary to make your browser format the page.

You tell Eufrates how to format each item using its Itemtype. When you generate the page, Eufrates takes the information you have entered for each item and formats it into a web page for you.

The most important thing to remember about web browsers is that they run all the text together in one mass, unless you specifically tell the browser to do a line break or a paragraph break. That's why we made the default itemtype the paragraph, which skips a line after displaying the text.

Item Types

• Paragraph takes the text you type in the 'Text' box, and adds a <p> to it, which causes the browser to skip a line after the text is displayed. You can do the same thing by using the Itemtype 'text' and typing a <p> at the end of the text.
  
• H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 take the text you enter in the 'Text' box and make it a header. H1 is the largest, H6 is the smallest. The browser always starts a new line after a header is displayed.
  
• Text takes the text you type in the 'Text' box and displays it. It does not format the text in any way. You can use html formatting command in the text. The most common things you might want to do are make several paragraphs of text by putting <p> between the paragraphs. You might also want to make one part of the text boldface by putting a <b> at the beginning and a </b> at the end of the boldfaced passage.
  <i> and </i> make things <i>italic</i>.
  A <br> creates a line break (ends one line and begins a new one, without skipping any space).
  Remember, it doesn't matter what the text looks like in the text box. The browser on the other end will squish everything together unless it sees line formatting commands such as <br>.
  
• Ruler generates the <hr> Horizontal Rule code, which tells the browser to insert a ruler line in the web page. You can do the same thing in a paragraph or text itemtype by putting the code directly in the text like this: <hr>
  
• Listitem generates the html <LI> tag, which makes an unordered list. This is great if you are listing your links to other sites, for example. If you put a <br> at the end of the 'Text' area, it will skip a line between items.