Text Formatting

The routines in this category allow you to format text in various ways. You can change the appearance of whole paragraphs or groups of characters within a paragraph.

Character Formatting

RWS_BOLD

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in bold.

RWS_COLOR (Deprecated)

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in a specified colour.

RWS_COLOUR (Deprecated)

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in a specified colour.

RWS_FONT

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in a specified font.

*RW_FONT_COLOR (Deprecated)

Specifies a Font colour.

*RW_FONT_COLOUR (Deprecated)

Specifies a Font colour.*

*RW_FONT_SIZE (Deprecated)

Sets the text size.

*RW_FONT_END (Deprecated)

Used to end a FONT declaration.

RWS_ITALIC

Tags a string to be displayed in italics.

RWS_MONO

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in a monospaced font.

RWS_QUOTE

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed enclosed in quotation marks (currently not supported in Internet Explorer).

RWS_ED_INSERT

Tags the contents of a string as an Editorial Insert section.

RWS_ED_DELETE

Tags the contents of a string as an Editorial Delete section.

Paragraph Formatting

*RW_ALIGN

Specifies the text alignment for the next paragraph.

RWS_BLOCKQUOTE

Tags the contents of a string as a block quote.

RW_CENTER_ON

Centres subsequent text and images within the browser window.

*RW_CENTRE_ON (Deprecated)

Centres subsequent text and images within the browser window.

RW_CENTER_OFF

Ends centred alignment.

*RW_CENTRE_OFF (Deprecated)

Ends centred alignment.

RWS_CENTER

Tags the contents of a string as centred.

RWS_CENTRE

Tags the contents of a string as centred.

*RW_FIXED_ON

Starts a section of pre-formatted text.

*RW_FIXED_OFF

Ends a section of pre-formatted text.

RWS_FIXED

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed as pre-formatted text.

RWS_HEADING

Tags a string as a heading paragraph.

*RW_HEADING (Deprecated)

Defines a heading paragraph.

Page Formatting

RWS_MULTICOL (Netscape specific)

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in two columns.

RWS_MULTICOL2

Tags the contents of a string to be displayed in two columns.

CSS Styles and Stylesheets

RWS_STYLE

Tags the contents of a string as a style definition.
RW_IMPORT_STYLESHEET

Imports a stylesheet into RealWeb's RW.HEADBUF buffer.

RW_LINK_STYLESHEET

Links a stylesheet into RealWeb's RW.HEADBUF buffer.

Miscellaneous

*RW_TAG (Deprecated)

Encloses a text string in a pair of HTML tags of the specified type.

RWA_TAG

Encloses a text string in a pair of HTML tags of the specified type.

RWS_TAG

Encloses a text string in a pair of HTML tags of the specified type.

RWA_TAG_ATTR

Uses tag names taken from a dynamic arrayClosed A multi-element string variable in which data is divided into elements by attribute marks, value marks and subvalue marks, matching the structure of a Reality file item. The entire array is referenced and stored as a single variable. For more information, refer to the Reality DataBasic Reference Manual.  to format attributes from a second dynamic array.

*RW_TAGA (Deprecated)

Encloses a text string in a pair of HTML tags of the specified type and appends the result to a buffer.

RW_TAG_ATTR(Deprecated)

Uses tag names taken from a dynamic arrayClosed A multi-element string variable in which data is divided into elements by attribute marks, value marks and subvalue marks, matching the structure of a Reality file item. The entire array is referenced and stored as a single variable. For more information, refer to the Reality DataBasic Reference Manual.  to format attributes from a second dynamic array.

RW_TAGL (Deprecated)

Encloses a text string in a pair of HTML tags of the specified type.

 

A leading asterisk indicates that the subroutine was present in RealWeb 2.