Posted on 04/10/2008 6:27:14 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi
Ladies and gents,
I have a problem. I've posted here for years, and I've let it slide until now. I should have asked these questions before, but I was too lazy/indifferent to bother. Anyway, it's gotten to the point where I can't take it anymore. I can't post pictures. I can't italicize the text that I want to respond to. I can't post links. I can't post text in different colors or fonts. I've tried tinkering with the settings on Free Republic. I've tried tinkering with my web browser. Can someone out there give me an idiot-proof explaination of what I can do to remedy this problem. I'll be forever greatful. Heck, I may even send a small donation to FR in your name. Just...please...help me.
Iirc, the Powers believe that allowing editing of comments after posting would reduce the dialogue to gibberish, as people went back to their posts and changed what they'd originally said, after others had responded.
I agree. If we all took the "Preview" function more seriously, we'd avoid saying many dumb things.
The neatest thing I have ever seen for internet posting/ forums is the ne Microsoft Live Write.
It allows you to compose in a true wysiwyg format. Then you can copy and paste it directly.
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“If we all took the “Preview” function more seriously, we’d avoid saying many dumb things.”
Ha! Preview cannot stop me from saying many dumb things. My wife cannot stop me from saying many dumb things. It’s a special talent of mine.
See- there are FRiends here ready and willing to help.
Have a great day experiementing on the tips you’ve received. I look forward to your first pic.
< a href=”http://www.jeffhead.com//"; target=”blank” > opens jeffhead.com in a separate window.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555762/posts
and all your questions shall be anwered.
... you can cut-and-paste can't you?
A good point was made by shuckmaster.
When you find a post that has a feature you like, right click the entire page and select “view source” from the commands available.
A screen will open showing you that page you were viewing expressed in the raw html code.
It will take you some time learning how to make that view source page wrap and how to find the exact post you are looking for with find commands and the like looking for key words or poster names, but eventually you will find the individual lines of html code that the poster used to produce the effect that you wish to duplicate.
Then it is copy and paste and edit to change how you wish.
Another thing. If you are in the reply box on a post and you have html commands or flags anywhere in your response the automatic formatting gets turned off. Where you have made paragraphs, line breaks and the like, those won’t be carried over to the preview or post because the automatic formating is only used on replies that have no html. You will have to manually add the < P > commands (without the spaces) to get paragraphs when you have html anywhere in the reply.
Another thing to note is that you can also combine the HTML formatting codes:
<i><b><font color=blue>Here's what you get with italics, bold, font color and <u>underline</u> all at once!</font></b></i>
Here's what you get with italics, bold, font color and underline all at once!
Accidentally saying dumb things, I meant :-).
Despite what you might think, kmowing HTML is no help there.
Great link - thanks! bttt
<i><b><u>If you use multiple tags in the same post, turn them off in reverse order. It's called nesting.</u></b></i>
Hosting other people’s pictures is always a copyright problem.
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