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Can someone give me some basic formating tips for HTML. I mean linebreaks,italics,bold, that sort of stuff. thanx

― anthony, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Basic tags:

Paragraph break: 
Line break: 
Bold text: text
Italics text: text
Website link (aka anchor tag): <A href="http://websiteURL">text that should be clicked on</A>
Email link: <A href="mailto:emailaddress">text that should be clicked on</A>

More detailed info can be found here.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wonder if I can cheat and post in pretty COLOURS?

Hmmmm... how well have I remembered basic HTML, or will I look like a raving fool?

― masonic boom, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's not that hard, even I mastered the (very) basics in a week. Believe me, that's something, computer coding (in all its forms) is something I'm not compatible with.

― DG, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

for people that don't know any of that stuff , try this - when you see stuff that makes you go , Oh how do you do that?, you click on VIEW & then down to SOURCE. then you can see the java or html stuff laid out there & you don't even have to understand how it works, if you wanna steal stuff just cut/paste/replace text.
i only found that out recently , i hope it's useful to the few people who know even less than i do.

― duane zarakov, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I never use HTML, so I'm just trying this out for this first time.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Am also testing out my html abilities - please ignore.

This is a link to bluesnake.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This is an experiment. Naomi Yang says her favorite font is futura.

― youn, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I test .^.. I am

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

[IMG]http://www.contrabandent.com/pez1/cwm/big/bigsmirk4.gif[/IMG]

That's bigger than any smirk has the right to be. Blame Kodanshi for leading me to the link.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

this is just a test, because jess is a tool.

place what is coolA>

― jess, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

place what is cool

― jess, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

place what is cool

― jess, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

success! I AM A GOD.

(give this to me. it's been a bad week.)

― jess, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

thank you for making this thread.

― maria, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Let's see how this line
break stuff works.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One two, one two
This is just a test
One two, one two
This is
JUST
A
TEST!

― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Richard, you are so clever. I've been wondering how to do a therefore forever! I can't believe there isn't one in HTML - or most fonts for that matter. .^...^...^...^...^..

― Tabs, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

123

456

789

I hope this works.

― Honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Damnit. there.
― Honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

God. ??
― Honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This is my last try .Help.
― Honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

..
.I need to sleep.
― honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bye.
Simple example of an HTML document.
A simple example.
This is a simple HTML document. This is the first paragraph.
This is the second paragraph. This is a word in italics. This is a word in bold. Here is an inlined GIF image: myimage.gif.
This is the third paragraph. Here is a hypertext link from the word foo to a document called "subdir/myfile.html".

A second-level header.
Here is a section of text that should show up in a fixed-width font (as if it were a computer listing or a verse of poetry):

The cat in the hat fell to the ground and went splat.
This is a bulleted list with two items:

First item goes here.
Second item goes here.
This is the end of my example document.

John Bigbooty
― Honda, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does this kill the bold?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Trying to work out this inlined image thing. Please ignore.

stave2.gif

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hmmm. That didn't work. Let's try this:

D:\My Documents\My Pictures\stave2.gif

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yesssssssssssss!

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Arghhh! bastard computer, I cant see it here. what am I missing

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

you can't see it, because it's referring to a local file on Jeff's computer. it needs to be uploaded to a website, and referred to with an 'http://...' style URL.

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thanks. Kodanshi has just pointed this out to me in the ILM thread where I tried to use the image to pose a question. All I can say is this page is a bit misleading.

It was a music stave BTW, quite pretty on my screen.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Note that the img tag is an HTML extension that is currently only understood by NCSA Mosaic and not by most other World Wide Web browsers

Arrrr, I remember when it were nowt but mosaic round here and multicoloured horizontal rules were all the rage.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

≈

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

lets see...

―

J>E>L

, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

lll

― JEL, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

still working?

― , Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pah!

― JEL, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

......

― mic, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

..............

―

mi, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

― michael, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What on earth are you trying to do James? And why have you become jel again?

― Nick, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm sorta inspired by wrestling where paople change their identities and stuff...like when Mick Foley gave up being Mankind and became Cactus Jack again...Really, it's just very silly!

― james or jel? I can't decide..., Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I didn't know who you were as james until i saw you writing "jel=" all the time.

― Maria, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

paragraph

― JoB, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

para

graph line
break BOLD italics

― dummie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oh no
― fritz, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

stop
― fritz, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ok
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jesus
― , Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Skipping 100 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
I think he's got it.
― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

um, too must nesting star, you don't need half of those tables.
if you have a table containing only one tr containing only one td then it doesn't need to be a table.
if you have a table containing lots of trs each containing just one td then scrap that too and just separate the rows using p tags.
hth
andy
― koogs, Monday, 21 October 2002 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks Andy - as this happened last night at night I just started again from scratch - when I have some time to sit and concentrate on it I might try and figure out how to better THE EVIL COMPUTER LANGWIDGE but as for now I will just be a bit crap. Chiz.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 08:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

last thing... at night... as I was just leaving work.. you KNOW... *weeps*
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 08:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...
Let's say you want to post a photo, but you are unsure how large it will end up on the screen. What can you do to minimize the size?
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

<img height=#ofpixels width=#ofpixels src="http://shania.com/lovemeformymusic.jpg">
where #ofpixels = the dimensions of the image you'd like to resize. maintain a constant ratio in order to reduce distortion.
― gygax!, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

you can hand code the img tag and supply width=n and height=m attributes along with the src thing. make sure the width and height values are in the same ratio as the original image or it'll look stretched.
but this is bad practice - it means the entire image has to be downloaded (lots of data possibly) before the broswer resizes it (and browser image resizing isn't always that good, qualitywise). resizing it yourself and linking to new image is better.
(curse you gygax! 8)
andy
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://feistycat.subtlehints.net/furball/lucycat4_big.jpg
― Sarah McccccLLLLusssskeee (coco), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

sarah,
the pixels are 600 x 450 so you can resize it to 400 x 300 or 200 x 150:

<img height=400 width=300 src=http://feistycat.subtlehints.net/furball/lucycat4_big.jpg>

<img height=200 width=150 src=http://feistycat.subtlehints.net/furball/lucycat4_big.jpg>
― gygax!, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

hahahaha...
let me put my thang down flip it and reverse it
― gygax!, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://feistycat.subtlehints.net/furball/lucycat4_big.jpg
<img height=300 width=400 src="http://feistycat.subtlehints.net/furball/lucycat4_big.jpg">
http://feistycat.subtlehints.net/furball/lucycat4_big.jpg">
― gygax!, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

much better... 450x600 is the pixel dimension of the source image.
― gygax!, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://unit.bjork.com/specials/pics/misc/nylonmag.com01.jpg
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

hurrah!
― Sarah McLuhhhhhh (coco), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
testes
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like to use HTML when I input listings on MLS b/c it makes my boss go, "WOW! How did you DO THAT???? You are SO smart!"
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if you post a pic and change only 1 dimension, will it scale the other one accordingly or stretch/compress it?
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

nope
― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

um, which then?
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

("no it will not scale it," i'm sure...)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

italics
bold
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

cf hell frezzing over (or have i missed something). go to the HTML playground now.
― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I tried, but it didn't work there.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

something strange is happening to my computer.
I don't think it likes this stuff.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

what does 'title' do?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

No - I don't think it likes this stuff.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

so is this how the blue writing works?
I doubt it.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let's have another go.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think I have got the hang of this.
I have been thinking about this text as the place where Tom Ewing made the baffling assertion, on which I have often commented, that everyone agreed that B&S were ('ferociously'?) inconsistent.
I don't think my computer has got the hang of it either.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

cats are brill!
― sugar, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

mystery link
― Harry Noble, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

homelink
― Harry Noble, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is a real boon.. On a related topic - can anyone advise how one goes about setting up a website; a very basic one, just text. I know practically zilch.
― Harry Noble, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Go to www.pitas.com
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...
dear other front-end developer I work with:
there is no fucking need to put "align=left" in every single fucking tr tag. none whatsoever. stop it before I go insane.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i miss all those threads where people messed around with html.
bring back tag usage!
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

dear other front-end developer I work with:
for the love of god think when you start to code some shit. if it looks like a big old chunk of content might be something they want to dynamically display or hide, then keep it all in one table or something, do not break the "order" button from an item away from the item and mix it up in a table with a totally different item. This is dumb and shows no ability to think through problems. Also it makes me want to kick you.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Hopefully this is a picture of Robyn with a pink background
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c23/unterwasser/robyn.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

?
How come upthread James was able to produce a table with a pink (actually mauve now I look again), background and it doesn't want to work now? I just copied the source and added a pic.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

a lot of html tags have been disabled recently to stop people abusing them.
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

How do you do the moving one?
A guy in my work does it in his emails sometimes (Outlook) - I want to be able to as well but I don't know 1. How to make it move, and 2. How to apply it to Outlook.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/hundedjinn-blink-av.gif
― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

move in what way?
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Rumpie, it looks shit and will annoy the fuck out of everyone. Don't.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

What Markelby said, I really hate it when people do this.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...
say i'm in the same folder as the index and i want to link to a part of the page. then is it just index.html#docs, for example? thanks IN ADVANCE.
― youn (youn), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

only if you specify an anchor named docs. so:

(open tag)a name=docs(close tag)
will make that link work
― john, a resident of chicago. (john s), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, that's what i meant. thanks.
― youn (youn), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...
lol
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhnwuCKa71qzfxxeo1_500.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

eight years pass...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCtbp69_NXI
― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link

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