In my day, we didn't have these fancy codes.
If someone left the italics open it stayed that
way for the whole thread or until someone closed them.
That's the way it was and we liked it!
Posted on 11/06/2022 6:28:41 PM PST by Peter ODonnell
Hey smart folks, I'm one of those users who never figured out how to post italic, bold or underlined script, or how to embed photos from elsewhere into my posts.
Any tips welcome. Thanks.
BKMK
I use it to post pictures and links all the time.
And I am using it here ...
It took me about two hours of playing around with it and I can post most of what I find.
Especially helpful since I go back in time and find old threads that deserve another view and to get updated.
I copy the link into Notepad first which removes all formatting and links. I then copy it from Notepad into the Posting window.
Depending on what I'm typing, I often write it all out in Notepad before copying it over.
BKMK
I remember the bad old days when people would get upset with you just for posting an image, because their 2800 baud modems would choke up just to download a single JPEG.
very temped to rickroll this thread...
Yeah, image heavy threads would bog things down.
Yah especially if it was huge and they didn’t use the height and width is the html.
Another trick is in Google Chrome and other browsers you can right click on any webpage and select "view page source", to cut and paste content with the text or graphic you want to repost with the HTML code already there. You have to check the line wrap box in the corner of the page, then use the find function in the dropdown menu for a word that was in the text that you want to kipe, in order to find the HTML code you are looking to cut and paste.
Something to think about though is that, if it is someone else's hard work that you intend to repost you should give credit to the author of the website.
Whatever you do, do NOT use PostScript. It won’t work.
Basic formatting:
Line break <br>
Paragraph break <p>
<blockquote>
Indented paragraphs</blockquote>
<font size=1>Smallest FR font</font> Displays as:
Smallest FR font
<font size=7>Largest FR font<font> Displays as:
Largest FR font
Or
Step font size up or down with <big>bigger</big> and <small>smaller</small>
Posting a link:
General:
<a href=[web address]>[title]< /a>
Example:
This: <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179145/posts">Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal</a>
Posts as this:
Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal
Posting an image:
General:
<img src="[web server location]">
You can't just snag a favorite picture from a desktop folder...it has to be hosted someplace on line to be posted here. Best bet is to save the image to an image hosting service, I use imgbb. In Firefox right click and select "Copy image location", in Safari right click and select "Open image in new tab" and copy the address in the address bar. Other browsers have similar tricks. Imgbb allows you to imbed codes to do all the HTML heavy lifting automatically.
Example:
This: <img src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:
Tip: control the size with "width=nnn" like so:
This: <img width=200 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:
While This: <img width=100 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:
Posting a video:
You can pre-cue a YouTube video by adding a t parameter to the link. Like so:
<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66kEastC58&t=35s>Bill Ayers on Obama</a> Posts:
Bill Ayers on Obama
While
<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66kEastC58&t=3m13s>Bill Ayers on Obama</a>
Posts:
Bill Ayers on Obama
Now about that home page of yours…
Protip: Make the very first thing <blockquote> this will move everything that follows a wee bit to the right, giving you a nice left margin. Of course since any HTML command anywhere will be assumed to require HTML for every bit of text, all your paragraphs will need to have paragraph <p>, and line breaks <br>…
There’s this new technology that came out around 20 years ago and is standard on most every website except this one. It gives you a little posting box with buttons for formatting and adding a url for links or images.
Bmkd
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3378678/posts?page=4
Pages of Italians.
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