How do I add HTML to my profile?
HTML Can be used in only limited parts of your profile. Specifically in the "About Me" and "Want to Meet" sections. You can edit that part of your profile here. Simply check the "Use HTML" checkbox below the edit field you want to contain HTML, enter the HTML code and you're set.

Can you help me write HTML for my profile?
No. There are lots of resources on the web that attempt to teach HTML. We don't have the staff time necessary to provide support of that kind. Sorry!

But the good news is, lots of people know how to write HTML of at least a basic sort so ask your friends. To do simple things is quite straightforward

Pretty please?
OK. One quick hint. But don't ask for anymore...

Enclosing text in tags can be used to change it's characteristics. So, for example, to make something bold, put a <b> in front of the text to make bold and </b> at the end. So if you enter:
I'm a <b>very</b> nice person
it will show up as:
I'm a very nice person

OK. That's more than enough. Go have fun and ask your friends how to do HTML.

What if my HTML doesn't work? Can you help me fix it?
Nope. Absolutely not!!! Sorry!

Can I use full HTML?
No. Certain tags, such as "html" and "body", are disabled because they are not relevant. Others, such as "script", are disabled because Connexion does not allow access to scripting languages such as JavaScript. This restriction also means that certain attributes such as "onmouseover" and "onsubmit" are disabled.

Tags related to frames are also not supported.

The embed tag is also restricted. You may not use the "type" attribute and can only embed certain media types. It currently allows the following:
.mpg, .mp3, .mid, .mov, .wmv and .wav

And, finally, the "dynsrc" attribute on the "img" tag is not supported. It doesn't work on most browsers anyway.

How do I add sound and video to my profile?
You use the Embed tab to add sound and video to your profile. You can find documentation on Embed here:
http://www.webreference.com/js/column20/embed.html
This assumes that you have the sound and video files stored somewhere appropriate and that they are in a reasonable format. But for youtube videos, you have to use their code. For information on youtube, see below.

What about video from youtube?
Connexion makes a special case to allow video from youtube to be embedded even though it technically violates some of the restrictions we've imposed on HTML.

When you are looking at a movie on the youtube site, there should be a field labeled "embed". Simply click in the field, copy the contents and paste them into the About Me or Want to Meet section of your profile. As long as you have HTML enabled for that field, the youtube movie should display.

Restricting me to HTML within those two sections is very limiting. I can't really get my creative juices flowing like that. Is there a way to add another section to the profile and let me put my content there?
First, I should say that that's a very wordy question. Try to be more concise in the future. But, yes, there is a way to add a section.

Suppose you want to add a section below the "About Me" section called "My Photo Albums". All you do is enter the HTML for the normal "About Me" section and follow it with code that looks like this:
<section name="My Photo Albums:">
and follow that by the HTML for the new section. Remember to put a colon at the end of the name so that it looks like the rest of the sections in your profile.

Are there other cute tricks for working with HTML in Connexion?
I'm sure there are. We'll add them here when we come up with them.

What is a complete list of the unsupported tags?
The current implementation disallows the following tags:
  !doctype
  applet
  base
  basefont
  body
  frame
  frameset
  head
  html
  iframe
  isindex
  keygen
  link
  meta
  object
  param
  script
  server
  title