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Me, Myself and BJungNan
| April 9, 2005
| BJungNan
Posted on 04/09/2005 11:51:09 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan
That's hilarious! Oh, and I tried to italize the jpeg, but it doesn't seem to work!
;-)
To: iowamomforfreedom
Ahh, but there is a benefit. Those who have been here a while may or may not know the little numbers under each post link back to the post you're commenting on The "To 226" links to the post being replied to. The "242" links to the post itself. Although this may not seem useful, it provides an easy way of generating a link to a post like this.
242
posted on
04/09/2005 7:02:01 PM PDT
by
supercat
("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
To: scott7278
I don't recall such things as music etc. threads unclosed.
But I usually have my speakers off, anyway.
243
posted on
04/09/2005 7:03:33 PM PDT
by
Quix
(HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING ITS POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
To: Normal4me
Slippage, thy name is bannie.
244
posted on
04/09/2005 7:04:38 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: Misty Memory
But, can we do colored horizontal lines ?
According to my source, yes you can, but either it doesn't work in Netscape or I'm doing something wrong. You want something like this:
245
posted on
04/09/2005 7:08:14 PM PDT
by
supercat
("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
To: Misty Memory
Would you be willing to spell out in detail how to do the square, triangle, circle bulletted html thingy's?
Please?
246
posted on
04/09/2005 7:10:45 PM PDT
by
Quix
(HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING ITS POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
To: eyespysomething
That's hilarious! Oh, and I tried to italize the jpeg, but it doesn't seem to work! Italicizing jpgs is a bit harder than ordinary text, but not totally impossible:
Marv, I'm looking here at a post on FR that looks like a duplicate of a post from two days ago. I've emailed you the URL. Confirm. Roger that. I will post the "Already Been Posted" notice on this one then. That is, unless you want to this time. |
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Note that when style attribute were allowed, these techniques could be made to work independent of the browser's font-size settings. Unfortunately, without style attributes there's no way to force things to be the right size anymore.
247
posted on
04/09/2005 7:24:06 PM PDT
by
supercat
("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
To: thoughtomator
As long as you're not using red, I hear it is too forceful and direct for some young minds. Purple on the other hand is far less aggressive, it can still be used to correct someone, but is far less imposing of a color.
248
posted on
04/09/2005 7:31:24 PM PDT
by
infidel29
("It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."- T. Roosevelt)
To: supercat
To: supercat
To: supercat
You want something like this:
Clever, but it's not a true <hr>, you used <table> to do that:)
Is there a way to do a colored hr?
251
posted on
04/09/2005 7:36:37 PM PDT
by
Misty Memory
(Making a mental note.)
To: eyespysomething
But thanks for the tip! Did you examine the HTML? It's a bit tricky, and unfortunately ends up being dependent upon users to have their browser font settings close to what is expected, but it can nonetheless be useful for adjusting the captions on pictures.
On a related note, another alterative to 'italicizing' pictures is to resize them. Note that resizing a picture using the image properties will not affect loading speed (and should thus not be used as an alternative to generating real thumbnails), but if one is 'quoting' a picture that has already appeared on a thread, load time is not a factor.
To avoid using excessive vertical space, it can be useful to attach an 'align' property to the image. Most commonly, align=right as in this example. Notice that the text will conveniently wrap around the picture as appropriate.
The image align and table align properties can be very useful, although strange things can happen if you use too many of them in overly-close proximity. I don't know of any browsers that will crash if such things are attempted, but the result can sometimes end up being an indecipherable mess. Nonetheless, the properties can allow for pages that automatically adjust their formatting based upon screen size. Check out A Bird in a Barren Cage and play around with screen dimensions and font size. You'll notice the page can take on a few different arrangements even though it uses no scripting.
252
posted on
04/09/2005 7:43:52 PM PDT
by
supercat
("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
To: Quix
Would you be willing to spell out in detail how to do the square, triangle, circle bulletted html thingy's? Go to View, Page Source, Scroll down to Post 240 and you will see the HTML line for the:
* One can learn alot about HTML by reading the Page Source.
253
posted on
04/09/2005 7:55:31 PM PDT
by
Buddy B
(MSgt Retired-USAF)
To: Quix
Would you be willing to spell out in detail how to do the square, triangle, circle bulletted html thingy's? Please?
Certainly!
<UL>
<LI TYPE=square> Square
<LI TYPE=circle> Circle
<LI TYPE=disc> Disc
</UL>
- UL stands for "Unordered List" (a list of items in no particular order)...LI stands for "List Item" (an item on the list)...TYPE tells the browser what type of bullet point you want (square, circle or disc).
254
posted on
04/09/2005 7:57:44 PM PDT
by
Misty Memory
(Making a mental note.)
To: Misty Memory
Clever, but it's not a true <hr>, you used <table> to do that:) Indeed, though mine was centered.
Is there a way to do a colored hr?
Why does it matter? Tables are more versatile. Anything that can be done with an embedded .JPG can be done with an embedded table, although representing a 640x480 picture entirely in HTML is not apt to make you very popular with dial-up users. Horizontal bar charts can easily be rendered with tables:
Smart people |
200 |
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Dumb people |
50 |
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Vertical ones can be trickier, but even they are hardly impossible.
255
posted on
04/09/2005 7:58:51 PM PDT
by
supercat
("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
To: supercat
We huffed and we puffed and we blew up your rainbow!
To: TaxRelief
But, but, you have one of these < in the art work.
257
posted on
04/09/2005 8:14:58 PM PDT
by
Buddy B
(MSgt Retired-USAF)
To: Misty Memory
To: Buddy B
To: TaxRelief
260
posted on
04/09/2005 8:35:06 PM PDT
by
Buddy B
(MSgt Retired-USAF)
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