HTML SANDBOX 2021

[Hebrews 11:6]

HTML SANDBOX 2021

We are so blessed by Jim and John Robinson, and by God through them, with this marvelous website. FreeRepublic has many capabilities you can use to refine your posts, to make your points more emphatically and dramatically.

Many posters have given us previous versions of this Sandbox, but since the most recent was in 2016, it's now well past time for another.

"HTML" is Hyper Text Markup Language, which can make your typing-text fancier and more useful. You supply invisible commands to produce remarkable effects. These commands are encased in left and right carets, like this: <command>.*

Before beginning, ALWAYS remember The Three Rules of HTML Posting:

1. PREVIEW! 2. PREVIEW! 3. PREVIEW!

CONTENTS
1. TEXT
2. FONTS
3. TEXT BLOCKS
4. LINKS/PICTURES/VIDEOS
5. TABLES

1. TEXT

Here are basic ON and OFF commands—note that each must be terminated with </command>.

Feature	What You Type	Result
BOLD	<B>my text</B>	my text
UNDERLINE	<U>my text</U>	my text
ITALIC	<i>my text</i>	my text
STRIKE	<S>my text</S>	my text
SUPERSCRIPT	<SUP>my text</SUP>	my text
SUBSCRIPT	<SUB>my text</SUB>	my text

You can combine these as you wish:
<B><U><I>my text</B></U></I> = my text

2. FONTS

A. FONT SIZES
We can choose from 7 sizes, 1-7:

<font size=1>my text</font> = my text
<font size=4>my text</font> = my text
<font size=7>my text</font> = my text
^{Special trick if you want text even tinier than Size 1: use Superscript, or Subscript; it wont align with adjacent text, but that won't matter if you give it its own line, like this.}

B. FONT COLORS
We can choose from many, many colors.
The ON-OFF command is

<font color=my choice>my text</font color=my choice>

To choose a color, you have two options:

1. type in a common color name, like Red or Blue:
<font color=red>mytext</font color=red> = my text

OR

2. visit one of these websites, for a much larger variety:
HTML Color Codes
HTML Color Names
Either type in the color name or the code:
<font color=#01DF01>mytext</font color> = my text
If you plan on using these sites, I suggest you bookmark them NOW!

C. FONT FACES
We can choose from many, many font-faces. Here are several examples:

<font face=Broadway>My Text</font face=Broadway>=My Text

<font face=Chiller>My Text</font face=Chiller> = My Text

ALSO: Arial, Cooper Black, Courier, Forte, Georgia, Helvetica, Impact, Jokerman, Magneto, Mistral, Playbill, STENCIL

If you don't see what you want here, enter a Font Name from your Word Processor and then Preview to see if FR supports it.

3. TEXT BLOCKS

A. LINES
To force a new line, use the BREAK command: <BR>
Then, you'll be down here. All your active commands are unaffected.
To insert multiple lines, use multiple <BR>s.


B. PARAGRAPHS
To force a new line PLUS a blank line, use the PARAGRAPH command: <P>

Then, you'll be down here. Some active commands are terminated.


C. INDENTING
Four times already in this document I've indented blocks of text, using the <blockquote> command. Of course, its terminator is </blockquote>. I'll use it again here while I mention some fine-points:

1. Be aware that Blockquote also indents the Right margin.

2. You can use multiple Blockquotes simultaneously to narrow the text even more.

3. Don't forget to terminate your Blockquote(s).

D. CENTERING
To center your text: <center>my text</center>.

E. NUMBERING To create a numbered list: <OL> <LI>first term <LI>second term <LI>third term </OL> Yields: first term second term third term

F. BULLETING To create a bulleted list: <UL> <LI>first term <LI>second term <LI>third term </UL> Yields: first term second term third term

G. SEPARATING
To separate blocks of text, install a Horizontal Rule, at the width, size (height) and alignment you specify:

<hr width="25%"> yields

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<hr width="75%"> yields

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Specify different heights (in pixels, not %) and alignment (left or center):

<hr width="50%" size="10" align="left"> yields

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Fill in (with grey only) using NOSHADE:

<hr width="50%" size="10" NOSHADE> yields

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4. LINKS, PICTURES & VIDEOS

A. LINKS
You can easily provide a link to another website. To do that, first copy that site's address, called its URL (Universal Resource Locater). The URL is that https//: address at the top of that site's window in your browser. (Whatever you link to must be a live internet site—sorry, you cannot link to your computer.)

Here is the link command:

<a href="URL">my text</a>

Your text is however you want to label your link—usually that website's name, but you're free to label it as you wish. Here is an example: I'll link to Bible Gateway's site, but I'll give it a different label.

<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=NIV">God's Good News</a>

which yields God's Good News


B. PICTURES
Posting pictures could not be any easier! (But, as for links, the picture must be somewhere on the internet, not on your hard drive. Image hosting sites can solve this for you.)

Here is the picture command:

<img src="Image Link"/>

Doesn't that look easy? There are just two minor things to keep in mind:

1. Right-click on the picture, click on "Copy Image Link", and then paste it into your command!
(Firefox and MS Edge call it "Image Link", but Brave calls it "image address".)

2. You will want to control your picture's width, as a percentage of the screen's width. Here's how:

To add a Width limit: <img src="Image Link" width="x%"/>

Here is Mount Rushmore:

<img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/01/640/320/1862/1048/MountRushmore1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1?ve=1&tl=1" width="30%"/>

which yields



Now, let's increase it from 30% to 80%--and let's center it:

C. VIDEOS
Sorry, FR does not support embedding videos. The best we have are GIFs, those short videos which last several seconds and then repeat endlessly.

5. TABLES
FIRST, let's look at two exquisite examples:

This first example shows the traditional use of tables: displaying organized data. Obviously, it is a masterpiece.

This second example shows tables being used to achieve a stunning artistic effect. The poster has embedded tables within other tables and added text and pictures.

Did you notice above when I put two columns of text (E & F) side-by-side? That was a rudimentary table. The reason it does not look like a table is that I did not give it a border.

I don't really have anything to add to the 2016 Sandbox's discussion on tables. I just wanted you to know that tables can do more than merely presenting facts and figures, so I'll leave it at that.

By the way, that excellent Sandbox also discusses Footnotes extensively.

Finally, ALWAYS remember The Three Rules of HTML Posting:

1. PREVIEW!

2. PREVIEW!

3. PREVIEW!

(Yep, this is another table.)

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* Throughout this document, I've used a special trick, which you should never need to use; but you'll wonder how I did it if I don't explain it. It involves the dozens of left-and right-carets (< and >) I showed.

If I were simply to type < and >, you would not see them, because HTML makes them invisible. So instead, I typed & lt; and & gt; WITHOUT THE SPACE AFTER THE &. Then, they become math symbols: "less than", lt, and "greater than", gt—and now HTML ignores them.

That leads to another point you may well use. I wondered how the previous Sandbox poster was able to show carets, so I investigated. While on the page I right-clicked and then clicked on "View Page Source." (I'm using Firefox, and your browser may use a different term.) Once I arrived at the Source, I navigated around until I saw how it was done. I've used that method previously to learn from others; in fact, that's how I learned about Tables.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Tools: use ‘em if you’ve got ‘em.

[daniel1212]

"Thanks. Are you its creator?"

Oh no! I would hardly know where to begin!

[daniel1212]

"I can’t get it to work in chrome. Nothing to download."

I tried to follow the 2017 directions from the link in post 76 to https://cynwoody.appspot.com/installing-in-chrome.html to install it in Vivaldi, which uses the same engine as Chrome, but could not install it. You could just install Firefox, even the Portable version (I run many, plus outdated Firefox legacy due to its superior scope of functions) and install it on that.

[Hebrews 11:6]

In preparing this post, I noticed your frequent efforts on the 2016 Sandbox. Did you ever resolve your issue?

[Albion Wilde]

I do not recall. So I guess I must have, or I would remember and still be over there.

[Notthemomma]

QUOTE: Sideways carets, LOL. A rose by any other name....

Except that a rose is not the same as a marigold. That's why they have different names.

Google caret and google brackets. The four types of brackets are well known in English writing as punctuation. A caret is more a mathematical and programming mark, and is used with some foreign languages, and, if below the line of type, as a proofreading mark. Now, some have called the angle brackets "chevrons," but chevrons are usually used horizontally, whether upside down or not, so they're not chevrons or sideways chevrons, either.

Hey, not trying to be picky here, just correcting an otherwise spot-on posting.

And, "a rose by any other name.....smells pretty bad in court."

[Bikkuri]

¡ɓuıʎɹʇ dǝǝʞ

[gundog]

˙ɥƃnoɥʇ ‘sǝɥdoɹʇsodɐ ǝʞıl ʇou sǝop ʇI ˙ʎɐʍ ɐ punoɟ I ʇnq ‘uoıʇɐɔılddɐ lɐɔıʇɔɐɹd ɐ s6⇂0ᄅn%ǝɹǝɥʇ ǝɹns ʇoN

[martin_fierro]

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Robinsons, after twenty-four years, still choose to operate this site without an Edit function.

If ever I reprise this Sandbox--and a major need for doing so already has materialized today, having nothing to do with word usage--which I strove to keep as simple as possible, I shall need to decide whether to use the correct phrase, which while descriptive is also longer, or the incorrect short word, which seemed to trouble only one person out of fifty enough to mention it.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Are you both Australian?

[Donkey Odious]

Bkmk...thanks!

[Chicory]

Thanks so much—what a great job you did and how thoughtful of you to do it!

[Hebrews 11:6]

My pleasure, Chicory. God nudged me to do it, so I couldn’t resist; once I started, I found it to be lots o’ fun.

[Kevmo]

testing center without slash-center bold without slash-bold now add paragraph

then another 2 paragraphs

then 3 paragraphs

then four

I think it cuts off at 2 paragraphs

[Notthemomma]

Spoken as one who probably “could care less,” right?

Well, you can lead a horse to water.....

....but you know how bad a wet horse stinks.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Yes, the paragraph command does not repeat. For multiple line-spacing, use multiple “br”s.

[Hebrews 11:6]

“The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”
Numbers 6:24-26

[Kevmo]

"Yes, the paragraph command does not repeat. For multiple line-spacing, use multiple “br”s."

That's 2 paragraphs. Now 2 paragraphs plus 2 br's

test to see what it looks like.

now 4 br's. Back to paragraph---

now let me look at the difference
between paragraph and break

[Kevmo]

What is the purpose of slash-br?