HTML formatting of Handouts.

So I recently discovered I could create handouts in notepad (or the like) and bring it over to Roll20 and have the formatting all perfect.

Is there documentation on what is accepted html for handouts anywhere? I'm currently trying to create links (within the campaign) where normally you would use [Mr Bearington] (or whatever is name was) and it would link to the handout/character sheet with that name, however I need to to link to the "Locations" handout but call that link "Mr Bearington's Home").

How about how handouts can indent text?

Any other tips or tricks relating to acceptable HTML entries for Handouts?

For well over a year I have been copying and pasting HTML formatted text from multiple sources into the Handouts using Chrome on OS X and it has worked perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it broke - it pasted as unformatted text and I started seeing a bunch of the HTML code around my content. I panicked because I use this feature all the time and I started trying everything I could think of to work around the problem. After thrashing around for a few minutes I realized I could still paste the exact same code into Safari and it worked fine. After I settled down I posted to the Bug forum to find out what was going on. Here is my post:
https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4613130/bug-past...

I quickly received a response from the developers:

Kristin C. said:
We're aware of this issue. These sorts of problems are due to our current text editor being limited in feature and functionality. We are looking to update it with a completely different built, but it's something that's going to take time to systematically change it across the entire site. The editor is in use where and whenever text entry is used in Roll20 - In-App and the Website, so it's going to require a BIG update.

Tables can be very difficult to manage in our current editor. We recommend that if you're using them in a journal, that you try using the editor's table building tool instead of a direct copy and paste.

I realize that this is only slightly related to your post, but I wanted to provide you some background so that it makes sense when I tell you that HTML formatting in Handouts is a work in progress and that you should expect to see some changes going forward. If the developers are changing the background text editor then the features will obviously shift as the new editor is implemented. Hopefully they will release a comprehensive style guide when the new editor is in place. (Fingers crossed.)

I hope this information was useful,
-John

I just use google sheets and docs to make stuff and then paste them into Roll20. They preserve the formatting really well.

Mmm I will have to see if that works for me, thank you both for a reply, that information is valuable for me right now.

If you're having trouble inserting (or copying and pasting) <table> HTML code, I would try removing all line breaks from the code before doing so.

Some great tips in here, too!

I personally haven't been able to copy anything into the Handouts.

If I try and have any format copied [say from google docs] it copies one instant of bold, Italics or underline and applies it to the full document, but nothing else is copied over. I'm not creating tables, just simple bold, italics, underline and center. Haven't tried indents yet, but would have done so if this worked.

Currently, Im exporting the handouts Ive made and simply making Google Documents to host them on as that is much easier and dont require mind breaking activities.