The HTML Campfire

10/5/2004 | me, all the helpful others

[michigander]

The HTML Campfire

Gather 'round one and all. New or old, it doesn't matter.
All that should matter is a willingness to have, what may or may not be considered, knowledge bestowed upon anyone willing to learn how in the world all this cool looking stuff happens 'round here.
Let's get started...

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Line Break: <br>
When you type <br> at the end of a line of text
This is what happens.

New Paragraph: <p>
When you type <p> at the end of a line of text

This is what happens.

These you need to turn something "on" and "off".

Bold "on" = <b> Bold "off "= </b>
Typing in:
<b>Bold</b> no more bold
Looks like:
Bold no more bold

The rest work the same way

Italic: <i></i>
Italic

Underline: <u></u>
Underline

Strikeout: <s></s>
Strikeout

Center: <center></center>

Center

The recently popular, Superscript: 
^{th, st, rd}

Subscript: 
_{th, st, rd}

Nothing to it right?
Now these require you to enter what you want between the " and ".

Font Size: <font size="?"></font> (?=font sizes; 1-7)
1234567

Font Color: <font color="the color name"></font>
Black
White It's White, trust me it's there (highlight it with your pointer)
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Purple
Orange
Yellow
Brown

These rquire you to enter where you want to go between the " and ".

How to post a picture: <img src="?"> (?=the address of the picture)
In this case the picture address is: http://www.freerepublic.com/images/frlogo.gif (It's from the FR home page)
<img src="http://www.freerepublic.com/images/frlogo.gif"> =

Links are a 2 step process. Where you want to go and something for the pointer to "click" on.
Link Something: <a href="?">??</a> (?=the address of the page, ??=something to "click" on)
In this case the page address is: http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm (the FreeRepublic "home" page)
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm">(the FreeRepublic "home" page)</a> the </a> turns off the link. =
(the FreeRepublic "home" page) the </a> turns off the link.

[MississippiMan]

I thought I read somewhere that JimRob said to put the height and width of the picture.

Exactly correct. When you don't include the height and width parameters, the whole picture has to load before the page code knows how much space to allot for its display, which vastly slows down the load process. When you include height and width, however, the page reads those values and knows how much space to allot for the picture and continues the load by inserting a placeholder for the picture while its data is still on the way.

<img src="ImageLocationHere" width=xxx height=xxx>

MM

[ExPatInFrance]

Converting .bmp (Bitmap) files to .Jpg or .jpeg.
Just copy the picture into Microsoft Paint,
Then in paint do "Save As" give it a name and in the drop down list under where you name it, select the format of .jpg
That will convert it easily for you, nothing fancy but it works.

[ExPatInFrance]

Hey I am going to try tht box thingy and make it Green

[Pajamajan]

[Pajamajan]

DRAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
That didn't work.
I posted a useless box with colored thingy's in it insteat of a picture :-(

[Pajamajan]

"insteat of a picture"

Besides my useless box with no picture in it , I can't zpel. I'm going to have a temper tantrum now.............. ....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WA...WAAAAAWAAA!

[michigander]

I posted a useless box with colored thingy's in it insteat of a picture :-(

What is the address of the image you wanted to display?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I want to take a picture like that....

[Harold Hill]

testing ITALICS

[maine-iac7]

Super Photo! hey, I did it! oops, I did it!

[cripplecreek]

Hey good job. One of these days I'll play around with font sizes myself.

[No Blue States]

Thanks, thats Galveston,Tx a couple of weeks ago and I want to go back.
Imagine that sunset wrapped over 2/3rds of the sky while it changed colors as the sun rose...meanwhile the waves are gently lapping at the beach before I caught 15 fish from 20 to 30 lbs.

Man, it was hard to come back to work.

I was grilling some steaks and had some cooking oil spray next to me, a mosquito bit my leg and I mistakenly sprayed grease all over my legs mistaking it for the Off. ;o

[aShepard]

A keeper bump

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Kewl!

[alieno nomine]

"MASH THIS"

[bikepacker67]

¿Que?

[alieno nomine]

Oy!!

I was just testing out your tip back on #27...

sorry for the "loop" - False alarm. I'm going through a "bunny-pancake" moment.

[chalkman]

ping for later

[Jackknife]