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So we've made a post and added it to the posts array, but you may be wondering "how do i actually use html?" I won't go over the full topic here, but i will point you towards the posts folder, which contains the html cheat sheet that I've left for you. Click edit, and you'll see that there's a lot of content in here with all kinds of different tags--not just the tag.
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Most tags work similarly to the tag where they have an opening tag and a closing tag with a slash. If we view the cheat sheet, we'll see that there's examples of all kinds of different things that you can do. And by comparing the html of this file in the editor with how it looks on the blog, you can figure out how to do many things!
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Of course you can also look for any kind of beginner's html guide online. You might think that it seems a bit inconvenient to have to add all of these tags just to format your post. But in my experience, you have to think for a good amount of time while writing anyway, and adding these little tags can feel like a nice little meditative act that's just part of the craft. If you don't want to write your blog post in html, how about starting out in google docs,
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copying and pasting into an online html editor, then hitting the clean up button? Copy this cleaned up html into one of your posts, save it, and view. And there you have it! As a side note, there are certain conventions to how far we indent our code. If something is inside something else, then we indent it further
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so that it's easy to tell the relationships at a glance. However, as we just saw, the code will work either way! It's just a matter of how tidy we want to be for our own sake.
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