html-howto

Overview
You can use a number of HTML tags to format the description of your Google Earth placemarks. Tags are special ways to mark certain words you write so that when they are displayed by Google Earth, they have a special look (for instance, the words can be bold). Also, you can use tags to insert hyperlinks or add images to your descriptions.

A tag looks like this: or like this: and usually they come in pairs, like this:

Links
A [|hyperlink] has two parts.
 * The text that is blue and underlined (that you actually click on). For instance, the word "hyperlink" above.
 * The page that it points to. For instance, the Wikipedia definition that you see when you click on that link.

Here's how to create the sentence that you see above, including the hyperlink.

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Images
To add an image to your placemark you must follow the steps below.


 * 1) Find an image on Flickr Creative Commons.
 * 2) Click on the "All Sizes" button at the top left of the picture.
 * 3) Choose a size that will fit well in your description.
 * 4) Download that picture by dragging it from the browser onto the desktop.
 * 5) Upload the picture onto your wiki page.
 * 6) View the wiki page, control-click the image and choose "Copy Image Address" or "Copy Image Location".
 * 7) Type an image tag in your description where you want the image:
 * 8) Paste the address between the quote marks as demonstrated below.

Paragraph formatting
You may notice that when you insert images, the text doesn't always work well with them. In order to get it to work correctly, you can use paragraph tags. They look like this:. Here's an example of putting an image between two paragraphs of text.