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The background colour of this page was set with the tag <body bgcolor="#ffc0c0">

Here are some Server Side Includes:
* You connected from 38.107.179.220
* This text comes from 'include.html'
* Last modified: Tuesday, 06-Oct-2009 13:56:05 CEST
* This document is gimmicks.html

Here are some cgi-bin scripts:
* printenv is a compiled C program
* counter counts page visits
* sample.pl is a Perl script
* hello.pl is another Perl script
* pinfo is another C progam, demonstrating a way to get arguments into a script.

You can use a picture as background thus: <body background="icons/magnifier.gif"> (Not done here, as it clutters up everything.) In addition this paragraph should be aligned to the right margin, rather than to the left, as is commonly done.

Super and subscripting: $E=MC$ ², H₂O

Degree sign: 180° (180°)

Funny characters:
European: à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
Greek: α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ ς σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω ϑ ϒ ϖ
Greek capitals: ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛ ΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
See the Complete HTML entity listing for more of this.

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Here's a horizontal ruler, created by the tag <hr align=center width=40% size=5>

You can center text by enclosing it in <center> and </center> tags

The <blockquote> tag indents a block of text, so that it stands out among the surrounding text. The left margin remains aligned. I'll just have to keep typing text until there's enough of it to make my point.

Use <b> to make bold text
The <i> tag produces italic text
The <em> tag produces emphasized text
The <tt> tag produces typewriter text
The <u> tag produces underlined text
And this text should be red

You can make multi-column tables with the <table> tag.

column 1 This cell contains a lot of stuff, because I want it to spill over onto two lines to show that the cell to its right is bottom right aligned, rather than centre left, as the others column 3
column 1 column 2 Hickory dickory dock...
the mouse ran up the clock

Making boxes in HTML
Put a table with white background cells inside a cell of a surrounding table with a black background
The cellpadding parameter of the surrounding table determines the box's line width.

Try out a form

See here for:

examples involving tables.
inclusion of images in text.
for forms, which request input from users and run scripts on the results.
forms can get quite sophisticated.
example scripts to go with forms. Apparently environment variables are used as a means to pass arguments.
here's another example.
find all this here.

column 1	This cell contains a lot of stuff, because I want it to spill over onto two lines to show that the cell to its right is bottom right aligned, rather than centre left, as the others	column 3
column 1	column 2	Hickory dickory dock...
the mouse ran up the clock