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To: upchuck
Wish I could provide a direct link to post #14, but I forgot how.
Easy enough to do. The reply number is a link to that reply. Mouse over the reply number, right click, save the link location and paste that into your < a href = tag.

Thank you. I will try at the first opportunity.
LOL.
Incidentally, I had to add a spaces to your "< a href=" end of message word, because otherwise it made my reply into a link!
Program bug?

174 posted on 05/31/2013 9:35:04 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: publius911
Program bug?

Nope. When your browser sees a < or a > in your reply, it thinks that's the beginning of an HTML tag and treats it accordingly.

To be able to use < and > we have to fool the browser by using character entities instead.

All entities start with an ampersand and end with a semicolon. In between are letters or numbers identifying which entity we want to use. In the case of < the letters are lt for less than. And for > the letters are gt for greater than. The entity for < is &lt; and for > it is &gt;

You might want to head over to the FR HTML sandbox where you can practice this type of stuff.

232 posted on 06/01/2013 5:50:09 AM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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