# Difference between revisions of "HowTos:Add TeX to your webpage"

This HowTo provides basic instructions on how to add TeX based formulas to your webpages located on the math webserver by using MathJax.

## Introduction

The main math webserver as well as the cgi webserver have the MathJax package installed on them and you can very easily use it to add TeX based formulas/text to your webpages hosted on math webservers.

MathJax is a javascript based software that can interpret TeX/LaTeX formulas embedded in your webpage and replace them with fonts and images to make them look as close as possible to the TeX/LaTeX output. You can find extensive information about MathJax on MathJax homepage. Here we will just suggest a few quick ways to use it, for more extensive information check jsMath website.

## Quick Start

To get started insert the following html code somewhere in the <head> section of your webpage:

 <SCRIPT SRC="/mathjax/MathJax.js">
MathJax.Hub.Config({
extensions: ["tex2jax.js","TeX/AMSmath.js","TeX/AMSsymbols.js"],
jax: ["input/TeX","output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {inlineMath: [["$","$"],["\$$","\$$"]],  processEscapes: true}
});
</SCRIPT>


This code will make sure MathJax is loaded if and only if you use LaTeX style formulas somewhere in the body of your document. That means that the following text:

               $$f(\alpha) = x+\beta$$


will get translated into inline formula as in: $$f(\alpha)=x+\beta$$ - note how there is a small delay before the text gets converted into formulas. For displayed equations you can do:

               $\int_alpha^\beta x = \mathbb{A}$


which gets translated like this: $\int_\alpha^\beta x = \mathbb{A}$