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!

[SunkenCiv]

This:

<center><hr noshade><font color="#777799" size="-2"><b>&middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/536123/posts" target="ping" title="Bump List">Bump List</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list" target="ping" title="Old Time Bump List">Old Time Bump List</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1278474/posts" target="ping" title="Ping List Envy -- How big is your Ping List?">Ping List Envy -- How big is your Ping List?</a> &middot;<br>&middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1328605/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers">List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #1</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1461671/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #2">#2</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1575959/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #3">#3</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608368/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #4">#4</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1692671/posts?page=222#222" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #5">#5</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712139/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #6">#6</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765959/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #7">#7</a> &middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811878/posts" target="ping" title="List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #8">#8</a> &middot;<br>&middot; <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~seamole/" target="ping" title="SeaMole s Concise List">SeaMole's</a> and <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~ernestatthebeach/" target="ping" title="Ernest at the Beach s Concise List">Ernest at the Beach's</a> Concise Lists &middot;</b></font><hr noshade></center>

results in this:

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· Bump List · Old Time Bump List · Ping List Envy -- How big is your Ping List? ·
· List of Ping Lists and Their Keepers #1 · #2 · #3 · #4 · #5 · #6 · #7 · #8 ·
· SeaMole's and Ernest at the Beach's Concise Lists ·

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[Jedi Master Pikachu]

wall. .

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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[Volunteer]

Let me try this....

If there is a photo above this line, it worked!

[papasmurf]

Hey, thanks. I finally found the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Digital Rights Management add on!

As if! LOL

Really, what's that called? I didn't see it there.

:O)

P

[papasmurf]

That second link leads to this: HTML Tutorial, one of the very best I've found. It's a real keeper, too. Thanks.

:O)

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[papasmurf]

Can you make it bigger? Too hard to see the peoples eyes. :)

:O)

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[papasmurf]

Best FREE spell checker...www.iespell.com. Works on forums, blogs, etc. just right click and presto, spell checker.

Uses Windows standard dictionary, and you can use/build your own.

:O)

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[gondramB]

>>Can you make it bigger? Too hard to see the peoples eyes. :)

:O)

P<<

I saw somebody on another board post a picture where it looked small until you moused over it and then it got large - made it easier for folks with slow connections - I wish I knew how...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Really, what's that called? I didn't see it there.

What I was referring to in #26 wasn't anything to do with DRM. Rather a tool called "webdevaccess.exe" that will allow you to view the html source code for a selected chunk of text on a web page. It's on the right side of the page I linked to.

[papasmurf]

I was being funny, I thought. LOL

Thanks for the follow up and the link.

:O)

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[napscoordinator]

I have never tried any of this stuff... Let me try: this is a great day

[napscoordinator]

Bold did not work for me. When is after school tutoring????? Is it after football practice? I swear this is not easy. I guess I am doomed to just use straight typing for the rest of my FREEPER life...

[papasmurf]

Ok, I got it. I installed it, even though it said for IE 5.x. It doesn’t appear to work on ie 7.

[gondramB]

>>Bold did not work for me. When is after school tutoring????? Is it after football practice? I swear this is not easy. I guess I am doomed to just use straight typing for the rest of my FREEPER life...<<

That's my fault. That's a typo I wish I could edit.

Bold is done with just the letter “B” not the whole word.

Like this <b>This should appear bold</b> but not this.

[napscoordinator]

Cool. Thank you. I might make it out of Kindergarten after all. I sincerely appreciate you helping us. I am not that computer savvy.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I was being funny, I thought. LOL

Ahhh...got it now. Sometimes my funny detector don't work so good after a long day.

I guess I'll have to re-install my own plug in.

[redhead]

Is there a nifty little code package to go with the “Pajamas” badge graphic? I’d love to post that little honey on my blog page...

[redhead]

...with the LINK embedded, of course. duh

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Is there a nifty little code package to go with the “Pajamas” badge graphic?

Not sure which graphic you are referring to.