What is the difference between Smart Text, Plain Text, and HTML?
Smart Text automatically recognizes a link entered in the text box. Smart text recognizes the ENTER key as a paragraph tag and accepts HTML tags as well. Smart Text will also prompt to load images if an image source tag appears. Web addresses entered as URLs are converted to links. The URL must begin with “http://” and there must be a space before the “http://” to distinguish it from the previous word. If an image tag, , is entered in Smart Text, Blackboard will automatically prompt you to upload the image. Plain Text displays text as it is written in the text area. It shows no formatting (bold, italics, etc.). Plain text also does not render HTML code. HTML code will appear as text. It does not even recognize paragraph breaks. HTML displays text as coded by the user using Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) tags.
Smart Text: Automatically recognizes a hot link if it is the first thing entered in the text box or if it preceded by a single space. The benefit of smart text is that it recognizes the Enter key as a paragraph tag. Smart text accepts HTML tags as well. You can enter line and paragraph breaks as you desire simply by typing. Web addresses entered in the URL format are automatically converted to links. For this to function the URL must begin with “http://” and there must be a space before the “http://” to distinguish it from the previous word. If an image tag is entered in Smart Text, Blackboard will automatically prompt you to upload the image. NOTE: This only works when the Blackboard document is first created; it does not work when modifying an existing document. Plain Text: Displays text as written. HTML codes will show as text only. HTML: Displays text as coded using HTML tags. Renders all HTML tags.
• Smart Text: will recognise html mark-up but will also allow you to simply add line breaks, rather than having to type
. • HTML: will expect fully formatted html markup including paragraph or line breaks
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respectively. • Plain Text: will not be converted at all – except for web addresses http:// etc. (so if you type that is what you will see).
• Smart Text: will recognise html mark-up but will also allow you to simply add line breaks, rather than having to type
. • HTML: will expect fully formatted html markup including paragraph or line breaks
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respectively. • Plain Text: will not be converted at all – except for web addresses http:// etc. (so if you type that is what you will see). Back to Building Your Site & Content | Back to Top • Can I use images on my site? Yes. The file formats we recommend for use on the web are ‘jpegs’ (generally used for photographs) and ‘gifs’ (used for everything else). HOWEVER IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE YOU HAVE COPYRIGHT AUTHORISATION FOR ANY IMAGES YOU PUBLISH WITHIN YOUR BLACKBOARD COURSE CONTENT AREAS (EXCLUDING THOSE CONTAINED IN ANY EXTERNAL WEBSITES YOUR COURSE IS HYPERLINKED TO ) .
