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.

[Rightly Biased]

I'll check with my HTML guru maybe I can get an answer for ya.

[michigander]

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

Now I suddenly recall why I haven't bothered to try this for a couple of years. ;-)

[michigander]

That doesn't have anything to do with HTML.
You need a program on your (computer) C:/ drive that is capable of converting a .bmp image to a .jpg image.

[cripplecreek]

OK thanx. I was thinking that might be it. I'll see if I can track one down.

I can post my own pics all day long but can't do anything with the ones I grab off the web.

[BIGLOOK]

Testing.....

[MaryFromMichigan]

Nifty little hint about copy/paste-

(Hope this works with your browser.)

Highlight the selection you want to copy.

Then go to view "selection selection source"- the text plus the html
are highlighted, then just copy/paste.

[MaryFromMichigan]

A quickie on how to post pictures :)
When you find an image online you want, click and hold your mouse.

An option should appear (like: "save image as") that will allow you to save the image to your computer.

Next, go to the site where you want your image stored.
http://photobucket.com is one site. It's free and you get a lot of storage and bandwidth.
(The image must be stored at a place on the internet that will let you have some bandwidth)
Once you get to Photobucket, you'll find a place to upload it from your computer. ("Add Picture")

When you want to post an image-

At Photobucket, copy the info in the "TAG" option of the picture you saved. Paste it in your post :)

Or you can simply "hotlink".

1. Write: <img src="name">
2. In the " ", type in the image's location.
Hope this helps! :)

[texasflower]

I'm interested in that answer also.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I did a quick search and found that there are programs that will do that for you.

[CGASMIA68]

bump to ref

[ShadowAce]

Classygreeneyedblonde? I forgot all about her.

[MaryFromMichigan]

HER?
;)

[ShadowAce]

< shrug > I just assumed, I guess.

[silverleaf]

freeper university ping

[John O]

Some info for you

[Rocket1968]

Bump to learn later. Thanks!

[MaryFromMichigan]

Classygreeneyedblonde fooled a lot of people.