About a year ago I posted a news article called "Making Your Comments Look Nice". Since then I have found out many other codes that I think would be helpful to share with other deviants who may not know them, or are just looking for some new codes to spiff up their journals and comments! However, I can't say I have ALL of the codes available on deviantART. I just have posted the ones I have heard of. If you have any new ones not listed here, feel free to comment with them.

You can also check out the deviantART FAQ, which has info on these codes as well: FAQ #104: What HTML formatting can we use on deviantART? And what is the format for these codes?

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To start things off, let's learn how to make these HTML codes work (:

In order to make a code work, you must use this format: <CODEDOESHERE>
For example, if I put b into the format I showed you, it will come out as <b>.
This will then allow me to type in bold font!

If you only want to put a code onto ONE word, you would have to do this: My name is <CODEGOESHERE>Bob</CODEGOESHERE>, nice to meet you.
Using the same bold code as before, I would put my sentence like this:
My name is <b>Bob</b>, nice to meet you.
Which will then look like this:
My name is Bob, nice to meet you.

I know some of this is somewhat confusing, as I am very bad at explaining things clearly
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in a comment.

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Codes

<sub>Typing <sub> will allow you to type in subscript like this. The more times you type _{infront of text, it gets further down and gets smaller. For example: Look how small it's getting!}

<sup>Typing <sup> will allow you to type in superscript like this. The more times you type ^{infront of text, it gets further up and gets smaller. For example: Look how small it's getting!}

If you want to make your text go wiggly, alternate between <sup> and <sub>. For example, _I ^am _wiggling, ^woooo!. BUT, you must type ^{text goes here...}. If you don't put the closing tag, the text will get super super small.

Typing <b> or <strong> will allow you to type in bold like this.

Typing <u> will allow you to make your text underlined like this.

Typing <i> will allow you to type in italics like this.

Typing <tt> will allow you to type like this.

Typing <h1> will allow you to type like this.

**HOWEVER, this only works in news articles. It will not work on journals, comments, etc.**

Typing <strike> will allow you to put a strike through your text, like this.
**HOWEVER, this does not work in literature or in comments, but it will work in journals and news articles**

Typing <blockquote> or <dd> will allow you to indent your text like this.

Typing <hr> will create a line, like this:

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which can be used as a divider.

Typing <li> will allow you to make bullets in front of your text, like this.

every time you type <li> in front of something,

it will create a new bullet point.

You can also create a numbered list by using the same process of <li>, but instead putting <ol><li>

1. it will create a list
   
2. like this
   
3. with numbers


To create a link to someones page, you type :devUSERNAME GOES HERE:. If I used my username, it would come out to look like this: ~Wuhzzles

Another way to create a link to someones page is to type :iconUSERNAME GOES HERE:. This will show there icon, which will link to there page. If I used my username, it would come out to look like this:

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As well, you can combine two or more of these codes. For example, combining <b>, <u> and <sup>, I will get this effect:
_{Hello everyone!}

I hope this article has come in handy!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask