HTML Text Formatting Commands

You can use HTML text formatting commands to enhance the way an item name displays. Here are several examples:

You can define a UI property value that adds formatting to the item name. For example, you want the item name Lamp to display in boldface. You would assign the following UI property value to the item Lamp: <b>Lamp</b>.
You can add a message next to an item. If the message is lengthy consider creating a small, two-cell table. Put the item name in the first cell, and put the explanation in the adjacent cell. The value of the UI property name for the item would then be the HTML table commands, including the item name and message. The base theme and product theme Web templates use tables to layout the Web pages. This means the table you create for the item will be located within a cell of the table that contains the whole Web page. Carefully review the table structure of the base theme and product theme Web templates before creating tables for UI properties.

The following HTML tag types can be used as values for UI property names:

Text markup tags (<b>, <em>, and so on)
Table tags
Content presentation and flow tags (<address>, <nobr>, <plaintext>, and so on)
Formatted list tags
Rule, image, and multimedia tags (<img>, <map>, <marquee>)
Forms tags (<button>, <input type> and so on.). You can use these tags to pass user input to JavaScript routines that are part of the UI property name value.
Hyperlinks. You must include Target = ""in the link tag (<a>) definition. This causes the link to load in a new browser window. If the link loads in the session browser window, the user will have to click the Back button to return to the session. This can cause the session to lose its context and can cause Web Engine problems.

Do not use the following tag types in UI property name values: