Posted on 02/01/2006 3:48:27 PM PST by TPartyType
This Sandbox is devoted to giving you a place to practice basic HTML, and to get some coaching.
So, first things first:
Go to michigander's [ HTML Bootcamp (Cyber patriot training)] and learn there how to change font color, font size, font face, and the like.
THERE'S A WEALTH OF INFORMATION THERE NOT COVERED HERE (so as to avoid duplication).
Learn there also how to post a link and an image, then come back here to practice.
If you're having problems, folks will drop by occasionally to give you pointers and help you troubleshoot.
NEWCOMERS TIP: I just reread the FreeRepublic posting guidelines. They're worth a read by all newcomers [click here].
But first, HTML advice from the FreeRepublic help page:
Basic HTML
The Free Republic forum uses standard HTML coding techniques. Use <p> to start new paragraphs. You may use <b> to begin bolding and <center> to center text, but please remember to end these items where appropriate with </b> and/or </center>, etc. If you post links or other advanced coding, be sure to test before posting.Creating new paragraphs is about the only html that most posters ever need, but if you would like to learn more about html you may use any search engine on the internet to find tutorials. Simply search on "html tutorial". Here are links to a couple tutorials that I found:
Please: ALWAYS turn "OFF" the formatting when you use it.
Some commonly used codes of this type are:
These codes can be "nested" to produce multiple effects at the same time. For instance:
<b><i>Bold and Italic</i></b> produces Bold and Italic
where "URL" is the URL address you want to link to (and you gotta use the double quotes), and Link Description is whatever you want to call your link. For example:
<a HREF="http://www.drudgereport.com/">Link to Drudge</a>
becomes Link to Drudge
And another from the same previous post:
<FONT COLOR="COLOR">Sample</FONT> produces colorful text.
"COLOR" is often a Hexidecimal Code for whatever Color you want, but color names are also supported.
Examples:
<FONT COLOR="blue">blue text</font> produces blue text
<FONT COLOR="red">red text</font> produces red text
<FONT COLOR="green">green text</font> produces green text
Here is an easy way to REMEMBER TO TURN OFF THE FORMATTING.
To be sure I turn off the formatting I TYPE THE "OFF" COMMAND AT THE SAME TIME AS THE "ON" COMMAND.
An example:
I want to respond to a line in a post by another brilliant Freeper.
I type < I >""< /I >< BR>
I then "cut and paste" his remarks between the quotes:
< i>" You are a poopy head "< /I>< BR>
And type my equally brilliant response: "No, you're a poopy head!"
The result:
"You are a poopy head"
No, you're a poopy head!
It's very easy to forget to turn off your formatting!
Yes it is!
Actually, the <ul> tag is for a bulleted list and stands for unordered list. The missing part is the list item tag (<li>) Here's an example:
<ul>
<li>List item #1
<li>List item #2
<li>List item #3
</ul>
Would display:
Finally . . .
Here's the link for [Webmonkey] (a super HTML training site).
.
 |
|||
 |
Duncan Hunter Score: 67 |
Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty |
Disagree |
-- Take the Quiz! -- |
|||
|
Make a decision! |
|
|
|
 |
|
Make the right decision. Support FreeRepublic! |
|
Photos courtesy Amazon.com, Inc.
Good one lol, although the first link is bad.
I thought that maybe Jim could use it in a fundraiser next year. It restarts again in 23 days...
In 2001 they used a different URL for “support” ( https://iseek.com/freerepublic/frsupport.htm ). Today they use https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/.
If he wants it he can change it.
| Code | Name | Displays As: |
|---|---|---|
| 	 | Horizontal tab | non-printing |
| | Line feed | non-printing |
| | Carriage Return | non-printing |
| " or " | quotation mark = APL quote | " or " |
| & or & | ampersand | & or & |
|   | Space | non-printing |
| ! | Exclamation mark | ! |
| " or " | Quotation mark | " or " |
| # | Number sign | # |
| $ | Dollar sign | $ |
| % | Percent sign | % |
| & or & | Ampersand | & or & |
| ' | Apostrophe | ' |
| ( | Left parenthesis | ( |
| ) | Right parenthesis | ) |
| * | Asterisk | * |
| + | Plus sign | + |
| , | Comma | , |
| - | Hyphen | - |
| . | Period (fullstop) | . |
| / | Solidus (slash) | / |
| : | Colon | : |
| ; | Semi-colon | ; |
| < or < | Less than | < or < |
| = | Equals sign | = |
| > or > | Greater than | > or > |
| ? | Question mark | ? |
| @ | Commercial at | @ |
| [ | Left square bracket | [ |
| \ | Reverse solidus (backslash) | \ |
| ] | Right square bracket | ] |
| ^ | Caret | ^ |
| _ | Horizontal bar (underscore) | _ |
| ` | Acute accent | ` |
| { | Left curly brace | { |
| | | Vertical bar | | |
| } | Right curly brace | } |
| ~ | Tilde | ~ |
| ’ is non-standard! use ’ instead! | ||
| &endash; or – are non-standard! use – instead! | ||
| &emdash; or — are non-standard! use — instead! | ||
|   or | no-break space = non-breaking space | or |
| ¡ or ¡ | inverted exclamation mark | ¡ or ¡ |
| ¢ or ¢ | Cent sign | ¢ or ¢ |
| £ or £ | Pound sterling | £ or £ |
| ¤ or ¤ | General currency sign | ¤ or ¤ |
| ¥ or ¥ | yen sign = yuan sign | ¥ or ¥ |
| ¦ or ¦ | pipe or broken bar = broken vertical bar | ¦ or ¦ |
| § or § | Section sign | § or § |
| ¨ or ¨ | diaeresis = spacing diaeresis | ¨ or ¨ |
| © or © | copyright sign | © or © |
| ª or ª | feminine ordinal indicator | ª or ª |
| « or « | left-pointing double angle quotation mark = left pointing guillemet | « or « |
| ¬ or ¬ | not sign | ¬ or ¬ |
| ­ or ­ | soft hyphen = discretionary hyphen | or |
| ® or ® | registered sign = registered trade mark sign | ® or ® |
| ¯ or ¯ | macron = spacing macron = overline = APL overbar | ¯ or ¯ |
| ° or ° | degree sign | ° or ° |
| ± or ± | plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign | ± or ± |
| ² or ² | superscript two = superscript digit two = squared | ² or ² |
| ³ or ³ | superscript three = superscript digit three = cubed | ³ or ³ |
| ´ or ´ | acute accent = spacing acute | ´ or ´ |
| µ or µ | micro sign | µ or µ |
| ¶ or ¶ | pilcrow sign = paragraph sign | ¶ or ¶ |
| · or · | middle dot = Georgian comma = Greek middle dot | · or · |
| ¸ or ¸ | cedilla = spacing cedilla | ¸ or ¸ |
| ¹ or ¹ | superscript one = superscript digit one | ¹ or ¹ |
| º or º | masculine ordinal indicator | º or º |
| » or » | right-pointing double angle quotation mark = right pointing guillemet | » or » |
| ¼ or ¼ | vulgar fraction one quarter = fraction one quarter | ¼ or ¼ |
| ½ or ½ | vulgar fraction one half = fraction one half | ½ or ½ |
| ¾ or ¾ | vulgar fraction three quarters = fraction three quarters | ¾ or ¾ |
| ¿ or ¿ | inverted question mark = turned question mark | ¿ or ¿ |
| À or À | latin capital letter A with grave = latin capital letter A grave | À or À |
| Á or Á | latin capital letter A with acute | Á or Á |
|  or  | latin capital letter A with circumflex |  or  |
| à or à | latin capital letter A with tilde | à or à |
| Ä or Ä | latin capital letter A with diaeresis | Ä or Ä |
| Å or Å | latin capital letter A with ring above = latin capital letter A ring | Å or Å |
| Æ or Æ | latin capital letter AE = latin capital ligature AE | Æ or Æ |
| Ç or Ç | latin capital letter C with cedilla | Ç or Ç |
| È or È | latin capital letter E with grave | È or È |
| É or É | latin capital letter E with acute | É or É |
| Ê or Ê | latin capital letter E with circumflex | Ê or Ê |
| Ë or Ë | latin capital letter E with diaeresis | Ë or Ë |
| Ì or Ì | latin capital letter I with grave | Ì or Ì |
| Í or Í | latin capital letter I with acute | Í or Í |
| Î or Î | latin capital letter I with circumflex | Î or Î |
| Ï or Ï | latin capital letter I with diaeresis | Ï or Ï |
| Ð or Ð | latin capital letter ETH | Ð or Ð |
| Ñ or Ñ | latin capital letter N with tilde | Ñ or Ñ |
| Ò or Ò | latin capital letter O with grave | Ò or Ò |
| Ó or Ó | latin capital letter O with acute | Ó or Ó |
| Ô or Ô | latin capital letter O with circumflex | Ô or Ô |
| Õ or Õ | latin capital letter O with tilde | Õ or Õ |
| Ö or Ö | latin capital letter O with diaeresis | Ö or Ö |
| × or × | multiplication sign | × or × |
| Ø or Ø | latin capital letter O with stroke = latin capital letter O slash | Ø or Ø |
| Ù or Ù | latin capital letter U with grave | Ù or Ù |
| Ú or Ú | latin capital letter U with acute | Ú or Ú |
| Û or Û | latin capital letter U with circumflex | Û or Û |
| Ü or Ü | latin capital letter U with diaeresis | Ü or Ü |
| Ý or Ý | latin capital letter Y with acute | Ý or Ý |
| Þ or Þ | latin capital letter THORN | Þ or Þ |
| ß or ß | Small sharp s, German (sz ligature) | ß or ß |
| ß or ß | latin small letter sharp s = ess-zed | ß or ß |
| à or à | latin small letter a with grave = latin small letter a grave | à or à |
| á or á | latin small letter a with acute | á or á |
| â or â | latin small letter a with circumflex | â or â |
| ã or ã | latin small letter a with tilde | ã or ã |
| ä or ä | latin small letter a with diaeresis | ä or ä |
| å or å | latin small letter a with ring above = latin small letter a ring | å or å |
| æ or æ | latin small letter ae = latin small ligature ae | æ or æ |
| ç or ç | latin small letter c with cedilla | ç or ç |
| è or è | latin small letter e with grave | è or è |
| é or é | latin small letter e with acute | é or é |
| ê or ê | latin small letter e with circumflex | ê or ê |
| ë or ë | latin small letter e with diaeresis | ë or ë |
| ì or ì | latin small letter i with grave | ì or ì |
| í or í | latin small letter i with acute | í or í |
| î or î | latin small letter i with circumflex | î or î |
| ï or ï | latin small letter i with diaeresis | ï or ï |
| ð or ð | latin small letter eth | ð or ð |
| ñ or ñ | latin small letter n with tilde | ñ or ñ |
| ò or ò | latin small letter o with grave | ò or ò |
| ó or ó | latin small letter o with acute | ó or ó |
| ô or ô | latin small letter o with circumflex | ô or ô |
| õ or õ | latin small letter o with tilde | õ or õ |
| ö or ö | latin small letter o with diaeresis | ö or ö |
| ÷ or ÷ | division sign | ÷ or ÷ |
| ø or ø | latin small letter o with stroke, = latin small letter o slash | ø or ø |
| ù or ù | latin small letter u with grave | ù or ù |
| ú or ú | latin small letter u with acute | ú or ú |
| û or û | latin small letter u with circumflex | û or û |
| ü or ü | latin small letter u with diaeresis | ü or ü |
| ý or ý | latin small letter y with acute | ý or ý |
| þ or þ | latin small letter thorn | þ or þ |
| ÿ or ÿ | Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark | ÿ or ÿ |
| Πor Π| latin capital ligature OE | Πor Π|
| œ or œ | latin small ligature oe | œ or œ |
| Š or Š | latin capital letter S with caron | Š or Š |
| š or š | latin small letter s with caron | š or š |
| Ÿ or Ÿ | latin capital letter Y with diaeresis | Ÿ or Ÿ |
| ƒ or ƒ | latin small f with hook = function = florin | ƒ or ƒ |
| ˆ or ˆ | modifier letter circumflex accent | ˆ or ˆ |
| ˜ or ˜ | small tilde | ˜ or ˜ |
| Α or Α | greek capital letter alpha | Α or Α |
| Β or Β | greek capital letter beta | Β or Β |
| Γ or Γ | greek capital letter gamma | Γ or Γ |
| Δ or Δ | greek capital letter delta | Δ or Δ |
| Ε or Ε | greek capital letter epsilon | Ε or Ε |
| Ζ or Ζ | greek capital letter zeta | Ζ or Ζ |
| Η or Η | greek capital letter eta | Η or Η |
| Θ or Θ | greek capital letter theta | Θ or Θ |
| Ι or Ι | greek capital letter iota | Ι or Ι |
| Κ or Κ | greek capital letter kappa | Κ or Κ |
| Λ or Λ | greek capital letter lambda | Λ or Λ |
| Μ or Μ | greek capital letter mu | Μ or Μ |
| Ν or Ν | greek capital letter nu | Ν or Ν |
| Ξ or Ξ | greek capital letter xi | Ξ |
| Ο or Ο | greek capital letter omicron | Ο or Ο |
| Π or Π | greek capital letter pi | Π or Π |
| Ρ or Ρ | greek capital letter rho | Ρ or Ρ |
| Σ or Σ | greek capital letter sigma | Σ or Σ |
| Τ or Τ | greek capital letter tau | Τ or Τ |
| Υ or Υ | greek capital letter upsilon | Υ or Υ |
| Φ or Φ | greek capital letter phi | Φ or Φ |
| Χ or Χ | greek capital letter chi | Χ or Χ |
| Ψ or Ψ | greek capital letter psi | Ψ or Ψ |
| Ω or Ω | greek capital letter omega | Ω or Ω |
| α or α | greek small letter alpha | α or α |
| β or β | greek small letter beta | β or β |
| γ or γ | greek small letter gamma | γ or γ |
| δ or δ | greek small letter delta | δ or δ |
| ε or ε | greek small letter epsilon | ε or ε |
| ζ or ζ | greek small letter zeta | ζ or ζ |
| η or η | greek small letter eta | η or η |
| θ or θ | greek small letter theta | θ or θ |
| ι or ι | greek small letter iota | ι or ι |
| κ or κ | greek small letter kappa | κ or κ |
| λ or λ | greek small letter lambda | λ or λ |
| μ or μ | greek small letter mu | μ or μ |
| ν or ν | greek small letter nu | ν or ν |
| ξ or ξ | greek small letter xi | ξ |
| ο or ο | greek small letter omicron | ο or ο |
| π or π | greek small letter pi | π or π |
| ρ or ρ | greek small letter rho | ρ or ρ |
| ς or ς | greek small letter final sigma | ς or ς |
| σ or σ | greek small letter sigma | σ or σ |
| τ or τ | greek small letter tau | τ or τ |
| υ or υ | greek small letter upsilon | υ or υ |
| φ or φ | greek small letter phi | φ or φ |
| χ or χ | greek small letter chi | χ or χ |
| ψ or ψ | greek small letter psi | ψ or ψ |
| ω or ω | greek small letter omega | ω or ω |
| ϑ or ϑ | greek small letter theta symbol | ϑ or ϑ |
| ϒ or ϒ | greek upsilon with hook symbol | ϒ or ϒ |
| ϖ or ϖ | greek pi symbol | ϖ or ϖ |
|   or   | en space | or |
|   or   | em space | or |
|   or   | thin space | or |
| ‌ or ‌ | zero width non-joiner | or |
| ‍ or ‍ | zero width joiner | or |
| ‎ or ‎ | left-to-right mark | or |
| ‏ or ‏ | right-to-left mark | or |
| – or – | en dash | – or – |
| — or — | em dash | — or — |
| ‘ or ‘ | left single quotation mark | ‘ or ‘ |
| ’ or ’ | right single quotation mark | ’ or ’ |
| ‚ or ‚ | single low-9 quotation mark | ‚ or ‚ |
| “ or “ | left double quotation mark | “ or “ |
| ” or ” | right double quotation mark | ” or ” |
| „ or „ | double low-9 quotation mark | „ or „ |
| † or † | dagger | † or † |
| ‡ or ‡ | double dagger | ‡ or ‡ |
| • or • | bullet = black small circle | • or • |
| … or … | horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader | … or … |
| ‰ or ‰ | per mille sign | ‰ or ‰ |
| ′ or ′ | prime = minutes = feet | ′ or ′ |
| ″ or ″ | double prime = seconds = inches | ″ or ″ |
| ‹ or ‹ | single left-pointing angle quotation mark | ‹ or ‹ |
| › or › | single right-pointing angle quotation mark | › or › |
| ‾ or ‾ | overline = spacing overscore | ‾ or ‾ |
| ⁄ or ⁄ | fraction slash | ⁄ or ⁄ |
| € or € | euro sign | € or € |
| ℑ or ℑ | blackletter capital I = imaginary part | ℑ or ℑ |
| ℘ or ℘ | script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p | ℘ or ℘ |
| ℜ or ℜ | blackletter capital R = real part symbol | ℜ or ℜ |
| ™ or ™ | trade mark sign | ™ or ™ |
| ℵ or ℵ | alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal | ℵ or ℵ |
| ← or ← | leftwards arrow | ← or ← |
| ↑ or ↑ | upwards arrow | ↑ or ↑ |
| → or → | rightwards arrow | → or → |
| ↓ or ↓ | downwards arrow | ↓ or ↓ |
| ↔ or ↔ | left right arrow | ↔ or ↔ |
| ↵ or ↵ | downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return | ↵ or ↵ |
| ⇐ or ⇐ | leftwards double arrow | ⇐ or ⇐ |
| ⇑ or ⇑ | upwards double arrow | ⇑ or ⇑ |
| ⇒ or ⇒ | rightwards double arrow | ⇒ or ⇒ |
| ⇓ or ⇓ | downwards double arrow | ⇓ or ⇓ |
| ⇔ or ⇔ | left right double arrow | ⇔ or ⇔ |
| ∀ or ∀ | for all | ∀ or ∀ |
| ∂ or ∂ | partial differential | ∂ or ∂ |
| ∃ or ∃ | there exists | ∃ or ∃ |
| ∅ or ∅ | empty set = null set = diameter | ∅ or ∅ |
| ∇ or ∇ | nabla = backward difference | ∇ or ∇ |
| ∈ or ∈ | element of | ∈ or ∈ |
| ∉ or ∉ | not an element of | ∉ or ∉ |
| ∋ or ∋ | contains as member | ∋ or ∋ |
| ∏ or ∏ | n-ary product = product sign | ∏ or ∏ |
| ∑ or ∑ | n-ary sumation | ∑ or ∑ |
| − or − | minus sign | − or − |
| ∗ or ∗ | asterisk operator | ∗ or ∗ |
| √ or √ | square root = radical sign | √ or √ |
| ∝ or ∝ | proportional to | ∝ or ∝ |
| ∞ or ∞ | infinity | ∞ or ∞ |
| ∠ or ∠ | angle | ∠ or ∠ |
| ∧ or ∧ | logical and = wedge | ∧ or ∧ |
| ∨ or ∨ | logical or = vee | ∨ or ∨ |
| ∩ or ∩ | intersection = cap | ∩ or ∩ |
| ∪ or ∪ | union = cup | ∪ or ∪ |
| ∫ or ∫ | integral | ∫ or ∫ |
| ∴ or ∴ | therefore | ∴ or ∴ |
| ∼ or ∼ | tilde operator = varies with = similar to | ∼ or ∼ |
| ≅ or ≅ | approximately equal to | ≅ or ≅ |
| ≈ or ≈ | almost equal to = asymptotic to | ≈ or ≈ |
| ≠ or ≠ | not equal to | ≠ or ≠ |
| ≡ or ≡ | identical to | ≡ or ≡ |
| ≤ or ≤ | less-than or equal to | ≤ or ≤ |
| ≥ or ≥ | greater-than or equal to | ≥ or ≥ |
| ⊂ or ⊂ | subset of | ⊂ or ⊂ |
| ⊃ or ⊃ | superset of | ⊃ or ⊃ |
| ⊄ or ⊄ | not a subset of | ⊄ or ⊄ |
| ⊆ or ⊆ | subset of or equal to | ⊆ or ⊆ |
| ⊇ or ⊇ | superset of or equal to | ⊇ or ⊇ |
| ⊕ or ⊕ | circled plus = direct sum | ⊕ or ⊕ |
| ⊗ or ⊗ | circled times = vector product | ⊗ or ⊗ |
| ⊥ or ⊥ | up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular | ⊥ or ⊥ |
| ⋅ or ⋅ | dot operator | ⋅ or ⋅ |
| ⌈ or ⌈ | left ceiling = apl upstile | ⌈ or ⌈ |
| ⌉ or ⌉ | right ceiling | ⌉ or ⌉ |
| ⌊ or ⌊ | left floor = apl downstile | ⌊ or ⌊ |
| ⌋ or ⌋ | right floor | ⌋ or ⌋ |
| 〈 or ⟨ | left-pointing angle bracket = bra | ⟨ or ⟨ |
| 〉 or ⟩ | right-pointing angle bracket = ket | ⟩ or ⟩ |
| ◊ or ◊ | lozenge | ◊ or ◊ |
| ♠ or ♠ | black spade suit | ♠ or ♠ |
| ♣ or ♣ | black club suit = shamrock | ♣ or ♣ |
| ♥ or ♥ | black heart suit = valentine | ♥ or ♥ |
| ♦ or ♦ | black diamond suit | ♦ or ♦ |
Every once in a while the symbol for something like the Euro, €, comes in handy.
sorry testing...
Ping to self
Hmmm. What happened to my tagline? I hope this fixes it.
Harrumph!
Try it now
†
†
†
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
