Access Rich-Text: Which subset of HTML is supported?

Question

Microsoft Access text boxes can be configured as \"Rich Text\", allowing the user to apply formatting such as bold text or different font sizes. Internally, this \"rich text

Answer 1

This is obviously an older topic, but there's information to add.

First, as far as I can tell, while BLOCKQUOTE is supported, I'm not sure that it can be created using the Rich Text GUI control. You can enter it in text that maps to a Rich Text control and it will be displayed differently (indented), though.

Second, while there's no Anchor/Link item in the GUI, if you type a URL into the Rich Text field, you will get a link as shown in the two examples below:

http://www.stackoverflow.com
mailto:test@example.com

In both cases, I only typed the text between the start and end tags.

Third, there are additional HTML entities supported besides those mentioned above -- & for ampersand (&) and " for double quotation marks (").

I typed all of the special characters on a U.S. keyboard into a Rich Text control, and here's what I got:

`~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) -_ = + [ { ] } \ | ; : ' " , < . > / ?

Those make sense from an XML/HTML perspective.