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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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

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

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

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-four years ago)

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

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

I test .^.. I am

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

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-four years ago)

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

place what is coolA>

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

place what is cool

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

place what is cool

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

success! I AM A GOD.

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

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

thank you for making this thread.

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

two weeks pass...

Let's see how this line
break stuff works.

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

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

123

456

789

I hope this works.

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

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

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

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

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-four years ago)

Does this kill the bold?

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

one month passes...

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

stave2.gif

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

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

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

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

Yesssssssssssss!

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

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

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

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

≈

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

three weeks pass...

lets see...

―

J>E>L

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

lll

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

still working?

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

pah!

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

......

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

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

―

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

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

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

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

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-four years ago)

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-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

paragraph

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

para

graph line
break BOLD italics

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

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

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

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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-two years ago)

<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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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-two years ago)

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

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-two years ago)

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

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

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

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's have another go.

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

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-two years ago)

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

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

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

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-two years ago)

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

?
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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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