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.

[Dutchgirl]

The a href="?" also works for wav files... spam.

[michigander]

I use &lt;/sarcasm&gt; myself.

</sarcasm>

[ChadGore]

OK, so I want to put yellow highlight on certian text, not change the text color, just highlight the background yellow . . how would I do that ?

[umbagi]

And let's not forget the classic:

michigander

Member since October 30, 1998

You just go like this:

<table bgcolor="#000000" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
          <tbody>
            <tr bgcolor="#3d4f88">
              <td align="left" width="75%"><font color="#ffffff"><b>michigander</b></font>               </td>
              <td align="right"><font color="#ffffff" size="-1">Member since <b>
                October 30, 1998</b></font>               </td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
  

[BIGLOOK]

Testing, testing...

[michigander]

I want to put yellow highlight on certian text, not change the text color, just highlight the background yellow

That was a sweet wasn't it?
I don't know a simple way to do that here anymore.
I'd just bold or change the color of the certain text.

[spodefly]

spodefly-certified HTML Screensaver

Probably only works on IE5+. Non-malicious.

[Tax-chick]

WOW!

[BIGLOOK]

Need some help here. What is the address of a picture if I choose one from those I've saved in My Pictures. I just tried with the addresson the folder and got nada.

[michigander]

And let's not forget the classic:

Man, I remember that. Sheesh, I'm old!
Never thought my freshness date meant that much in the grand scheme though.

[TXnMA]

I guess we shouldn't forget...

HEADLINES

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<&LT>H1<&GT;>HEADLINE<&LT>/H1<&GT;>

HEADLINE

<&LT>H2<&GT;>HEADLINE<&LT>/H2<&GT;>

HEADLINE

<&LT>H3<&GT;>HEADLINE<&LT>/H3<&GT;>

HEADLINE

<&LT>H4<&GT;>HEADLINE<&LT>/H4<&GT;>

HEADLINE

<&LT>H5<&GT;>HEADLINE<&LT>/H5<&GT;>

HEADLINE

But, headlines should be used very sparingly!

[Rightly Biased]

oh well who really needs Marquee anyway?

This is more fun than the old HTML Sandbox

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/802064/posts

kinda

[Egon]

Yeah, FireFox doesn't seem to know what to do with it.

[ken5050]

Can you please show me how to "link" Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden?..(g)

[Rightly Biased]

The Pic has to be on the WWW

And you shouldn't hot link to a pic without the owners permission.(its considerd bad web etiquite)

[ken5050]

BORing!!!!!

[Rightly Biased]

What about this, how do I post this?

[cripplecreek]

My problem is with changing a bitmap image to a jpg. most upload sites ive seen wont accept the bitmap.

[michigander]

I didn't read through the entire thread but, I'll guess that there's some help for your question here...

How Do You Post a Picture?

[eyespysomething]

here ya go, some basics