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.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Dick Cheney takes little Johnnie Jane to HTML camp

[MikefromOhio]

LOL whats up Tonk? I gotta try it...Go Bucks!!

[little jeremiah]

Placemark. It's about time I learned how to do links other than copy'n'paste urls.

[MikefromOhio]

well it didnt post...I guess the firewall is blocking it. Oh well....I can always do it when I am back home....

[GummyIII]

I use &#60; and &#62; (ascii) to do the < >

[Trillian]

Heheh!

[AZamericonnie]

Hey Tonk

I know, I know...I really need to learn this stuff!! LOL

[GummyIII]

<font face="Monotype Corsive"> will change font faces like this: This is Monotype Corsiva. You have to have the font on your computer in order to see it, or you will see your default font.

Be sure to use </font> at the end. You can use a combination of "face" with other font commands: <font size=+2 face="Monotype Corsiva" color=purple> Hello</font> becomes Hello

I can't get highlighting to work here anymore. Can anyone else?

[Chieftain]

This thread will teach you much about creative posting on FR!

[JrAsparagus]

Ping for later. Thanks for the help.

[JrAsparagus]

hahaa, I did it!!!!

[glock rocks]

Below is the code to produce the pastel boxes I use... if you save it to a Notepad file and save it to the desktop, it's there for use at any time. Format your text as usual with paragraphs <p> as you normally would do. I don't use carriage returns <br> because the box will size itself to the window it's displayed in, and would look funny.

Note, the sixth line of the code (which starts below) sets the box's color (bgColor) to blue.
Here are some other color codes.
light blue: #CCFFFF
light green: #CCFFCC
light red: #FFCCFF
light orange: #FFCCCC
light purple: #CCCCFF

******** THE CODE BELOW CREATES THE BOX (put your text in it at line noted below)********

<center>
<blockquote>
<TABLE bgColor=#000000 border=10 cellPadding=15 width="80%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD bgColor="#CCFFFF">
<font color=black>
<blockquote>
<br>

**** PASTE YOUR TEXT HERE **** (Replace this line with your text to go into the box)

</br>
</blockquote>
</font>
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</blockquote>

[Spunky]

"How to post a picture: < img src="?"> (?=the address of the picture)"

I thought I read somewhere that JimRob said to put the height and width of the picture. This way the thread can continue loading and you don't have to wait for pictures to load.

Jim did I recall correctly? If I didn't then I will not bother to put the height and width anymore.

[Jim Robinson]

Yup, height and width parameters are our friends.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! Great pic there, TGYC. Thanks.

[Smartass]

THANKS FOR THE PING

[RandallFlagg]

Let's see if this one works...

Yep! It works!



(I'll leave it up to the reader to decide exactly what I was testing here......)

[RightWhale]

"seven second" delay

Gives time for the CBS legal dept to give their approval.

[Smartass]