A guide to using HTML on Free Republic in 5 lines

Painful experience | April 25, 2007 | GrondramB

[gondramB]

When I came to Free Republic I had never used HTML. All the guides seemed complicated. This is a guide where I try to keep it as short as possible to cover the most needed topics. There are many better and more complete guides. I'll link to a couple at the end.

1. Free Republic uses HTML where formatting is enclosed in “less than” and “greater than” signs like this <bold> </bold>unlike many boards that use brackets like this [bold] [/bold].

2. The first one starts the command and the second one (with the divided by sign) ends the formatting like this < b > Text < /b >

   As soon as you use one HTML command in your post the Free Republic editor assumes you are doing all the formatting so you need to add you own line breaks and blank lines. Use the <br> command once for a line break, or twice (like this <br><br>) for one blank line, three times for two blank lines and so on.

3. To insert a clickable link: <a href=www.linkadress.com>Link description</a>

4. To insert a picture <img src=”www.linkadress.com/picturename.jpg”>

Other resources

1. To host photos for free and get the HTML generated for you www.photobucket.com This site doesn't allow porn so its less likely to be blocked at work.

2. More advanced Freep thread on HTML http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569737/posts

3. Best off-Freep resource page I've found http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

4. Good luck!

[Rennes Templar]

I want to post a pic from my own digital but the properties line has no .com address. How do I post the pic then? Thanks.

[gondramB]

>>I want to post a pic from my own digital but the properties line has no .com address. How do I post the pic then? Thanks.<<

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will see this and suggest an improvement on the multi-step process I use when a poicture does not have simple properties... I also use it when the picture might disappear from online - this creates another permanant copy.

1. In my browser (I use Firefox ) I right click on the picture and choose "copy image"

2. Then I use my free photo program Irfanview. I paste the picture and save it to my hard drive. Pretty much any photo program should work.

3. Then I upload the picture and re-host it a free picture hosting site. I use http://photobucket.com/ This gives you a nice clean address for the picture. I use photobuck because its large and free and doesn't accept porn so its less likely to be blocked.

Hopefully somebody else has a more elegant solution but in the mean time this will work. Good luck.

[Rennes Templar]

Ok thanks!

[BufordP]

To force the images to lay side-by-side instead of letting the browser push the next image down to the next line you put the images in a table.

Westminster MD Freepers

Here's the code I used to display the two images above with a heading:

<table>

<tr>

<th colpan=2>Westminster MD Freepers</th>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/RockerMom2MyHero/20080216_35.jpg" width=256 height=192></td>

<td><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/RockerMom2MyHero/08-03-14WalterReed02.jpg" width=256 height=192></td>

</tr>

</table>

[AFreeBird]

Your sense of humor is 13 years out of date. You need an upgrade!

[trooprally]

I think from PMM's freemail, she wants something like this:

text -- text
pic on left margin .................................................... space between pic ......................................... Pic on right margin

[SolidWood]

bump

[GOPJ]

USA

Nice

[PatrioticMarineMom]

Yep... Troop was right. I can get them side by side... But is there anyway for space between pics?
TITLE/HEADING
PIC PIC

BODY

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You need an upgrade!

Haven't found one for XP and I will NOT have anything to do with Vista. Blech.
But I'll keep a-lookin'.

[BufordP]

Westminster MD Freepers

Here's the same code from my previous post with minor changes in red

<table width="100%">

<tr>

<th colspan=3>Westminster MD Freepers</th>

</tr>

<tr>

<td align=left><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/RockerMom2MyHero/20080216_35.jpg" width=256 height=192></td>

<td></td>

<td align=right><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/RockerMom2MyHero/08-03-14WalterReed02.jpg" width=256 height=192></td>

</tr>

</table>

[trooprally]

Yep, I believe that is what PMM is looking for. Thanks.

[Mr] T

[PatrioticMarineMom]

Yes... Yes... Yes!!! Whew... I’ve searched searched and searched for that code! I think I need a drink!
THANK YOU!

[BunnySlippers]

[cherry]

I'll try this again...

[cherry]

duncanhunter

[ketsu]

I’d like it if FR supported markdown. Writing raw html in forms is a pain in the rear.

[REDWOOD99]

Show off.

[cherry]

hypermiler