Rich Text Syntax

A rich text is a string using a subset of the HTML format.

The following HMTL markups are allowed: 
<p> <br> <a> <font>
<b> <i> <s> <sub> <sup> <small> <tt> <u>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>

The <font> markup understands the following attributes: face, color, and size.

The size attribute can be:
  • A value between 1 and 7 for an absolute font size.

  • -1 for a smaller font size.

  • +1 for a larger font size.

Any HTML entity can be used.

Line breaks using CR or LF are not converted so <br> (linebreak) or <p> ... </p> (paragraph) must be used.

No CSS style can be used.

Rich text is mainly used by TextLabel, GridView cells, the Paint.DrawRichText and other rich text methods and properties.

Warning:
RichText display is handled by the toolkit and support for other HTML tags varies.

For example with QT you can also create a <table> and use lists <ul>, <ol>, etc. but with GTK you can not.

If you want to use tables or lists in your RichText then you will have to make a QT only program.

If your program uses gb.gui so can be either QT or GTK then you should make sure it works on both toolkits if you are using other tags.