You can create some beautiful content by using some simple HTML elements. Fontaine theme offers some neat styles for all HTML elements and a great set of CSS classes to style your content. Basic HTML is very easy to learn and this small guide shows you how to use all styles using rokCandy shortcodes.

Basic HTML Elements

Here is a short demonstration of text-level semanticts. The <p> element creates a new paragraph. It will have some space before and after itself. To turn your text into hypertext just use the <a> element.

Text-level semantics

You can emphasize text using the <em> element or to imply any extra importance the <strong> element. Highlight text with no semantic meaning using the [mark] element[/mark]. Markup document changes like inserted or deleted text with the [del] element[/del] or [ins] element [/ins]. To define an abbreviation use the [abbr] element [/abbr] and to define a definition term use the [dfn] element [/dfn].

Simple Unordered List

To use the bullet list style create a list in the following format

[list bullet-1][li]...[/li][li]...[/li][/list]

Special Unordered List

To use the special list style create a list in the following format

[list special-1][li]...[/li][li]...[/li][/list]

Quotations and Code

Inline quotations can be defined by using the <q> element.

The blockquote element defines a long quotation which also creates a new block by inserting white space before and after the blockquote element. This is an emphasis within the blockquote

To use the blockquote style create a paragraph in the following format

[blockquote author="name"]some content here [/blockquote]

To define a short inline computer code use the <code> element. For a larger code snippet use the <pre> element which defines preformatted text. It creates a new text block which preserves both spaces and line breaks.

pre {
    margin: 15px 0;
    padding: 10px;
    font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 18px;
    white-space: pre-wrap;
}

Use the <small> element for side comments and small print.

Block Numbers and Events

To use the block number style create a paragraph in the following format

[block-number]{number}[/block-number]

To use the event-time block style create a paragraph in the following format

[event 03:dec] your description here[/event]

Useful CSS Classes

Here is a short demonstration of all style related CSS classes included in this theme.

Highlight Content

Drop caps are the first letter of a paragraph which are displayed bigger than the rest of the text. You can create a drop cap using the CSS class dropcap. To emphasize text with some small boxes use <em> element with the CSS class box.

Use the CSS class dotted to create a dotted horizontal rule.

Tables

Create a zebra stripped table using using the CSS class zebra.

Definition Lists

Create a nice looking definition list separated with a line by using the CSS class separator.

Definition List

A definition list is a list of terms and corresponding definitions. To create a definition list use the <dl> element in conjunction with <dt> to define the definition term and <dd> to define the definition description.

Definition Term

This is a definition description.

Definition Term

This is a definition description.

This is another definition description.

CSS3 Tags

Blog Tags are used to highlight keywords or search words in a blog or site content. These tags have been designed with pure CSS3 and additional fallback for older browsers. Need more styles? Get them here

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To use the CSS tags in your content use the following format:

[tag url="{url}"]{your tag}[/tag]

Toggles

Toggles are a nice way to minimize hidden sections on a page by only showing titles of the hidden text while maximizing on space. This allows the user to only view what he/she is interested in with a sleek slide down/up of the hidden content. A good example on how to use them is FAQs.

• closed toggle

  [toggle state="close" title="your title"]your hidden text here[/toggle]

• open toggle

  [toggle state="open" title="your title"]your hidden text here[/toggle]

Buttons

Normal Button

normal default This is an expandable button 

To use the buttons in your content use the following format:

[button href="#"]button text[/button]

Color Button

normal default This is an expandable button 

To use the buttons in your content use the following format:

[button color href="#"]button text[/button]

Forms

Create a clearly arranged form layout with fieldset boxes using the CSS class box.