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Valid annotation HTML tags
You can use a limited number of HTML tags to insert hyperlinks or define formatting in texts to display in headers and footers (annotations). When possible, it is generally preferable to control the formatting of the headers and footers using the export style sheets rather than HTML tags embedded in the header and footer specifications. However, the HTML tags are useful when you want to emphasize individual words or phrases.
HTML tags in annotations
Tag
Attributes
Description
<b>...</b>
Stong emphasis (bold).
<i>...</i>
Emphasis (italics).
<u>...</u>
Underlined.
<font>...</font>
color
size
face
Font.
The color attribute specifies a color, using either the hexadecimal value or the color name.
The size attribute specifies a size from 1 (smallest) to 7 (largest).
The face attribute specifies a comma-separated list of font names in order of preference.
<a>...</a>
href
Anchor.
Use the href attribute to insert the URL of a web page.
<img/>
src
alt
Image link.
Specify the name and location of the graphic in the src attribute. You can also specify alternate text to appear when you move the mouse over the graphic using the alt attribute.
This tag does not require a separate closing tag.
<br/>
Inserts a line break.
This tag does not require a separate closing tag.
Using well‑formed HTML
The HTML tags used must be well-formed HTML, otherwise they might not be recognized as HTML and will appear as plain text. For example:
Close all tags.
The <br> and <img> tags do not have separate closing tags. Specify the line break tag as <br/> and not <br>, or it might appear in the exports as "<br>". For example, you need to close the <img> tag:
<img src='C:\CorporateImages\logo.png' alt='SPSS logo'/>
Use the same case for opening and closing tags.
Enclose attributes in double or single quotation marks (for example, <font size='7'>). When using double quotation marks in your script, you need to escape each one with a second double quotation mark (for example, <font size=""7"">).
For information about well-formed HTML see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa923323.aspx
See also
Annotations