ADMIN: HTML tags and you...why some of your posts may be buggered up right now

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There have been a few complaints on various threads and on some of the various ILX-related lists about stranger behaviour lately when you try to submit a post that contains angle brackets.

Basically, there have been a number of problems lately with people embedding things into threads that cause problem for a number of readers, or serve to just break the threads altogether using HTML majick. Because this was an ongoing problem, Andrew finally decided to strip the number of allowable HTML commands back to the basics:

 <A> <IMG> <STRIKE> <BLOCKQUOTE>

Unfortunately, this means that the board will now strip out anything between angled brackets that isn't an allowed tag, which will cause problems if you're trying to use < or > to indicate less than or greater than in a mathematical formulation, or if you're writing a "joke" tag (ie. </DAN PERRY>).

Consequently, if you want to use < or > in a post for whatever reason, you will need to enter it using the same special codes HTML writers have to when displaying the characters. Yeah, it's annoying as hell, but you're actually learning a valuable skill! (You gotta look at the bright side of it, yes yes.)

> = >
< = <

Any questions, please direct them here!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

BLOCKQUOTE

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

yaaay!

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

blockquote rulz. we should be able to define our own stylesheets for ilx though

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for fixing the original post up Andrew. Make sure to put semicolons after the gt and lt in those codes, or it'll break on a buncha browsers! It's a small thing but it matters.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(It still says "gt" where you probably want it to say ">"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Right you are. Fixed! I had too many damn tags in one post and I knew I was gonna bork some stuff up. Practise makes perfect. It's fixed now.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

~~strikethrudoesn'twork~~ohyesitdoes

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 19 March 2004 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG

― Strachey, Friday, 19 March 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF

― Strachey, Friday, 19 March 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

LOL

― Strachey, Friday, 19 March 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

KORITFW

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't we have <s> allowed as well as <strike>?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

~~U Sure Do~~

Chords of DOOM!

― Strachey, Friday, 19 March 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeh! Good innit!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Because this was an ongoing problem

Huh?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There have been a few complaints on various threads and on some of the various ILX-related lists

lists?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(While I'm tempted to just answer "What?", I meant the mailing lists, specifically 12-ft Lizards, where this was just discussed yesterday.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

What would have been good.
But I'm seeing only one list in that exchange. I've been a preoccupied with the move and all and didn't see how any of this majick. I'm not saying it was the wrong thing to do, but it just seems I'm missing something. What am I missing?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

> > > > >

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh

probably a pointless question.. what should i do if i actually wanted to say

& g t ;

without the spaces?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

>GT

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

& g t g t without the spaces.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone wanna write the FAQ for that one?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

>probably a pointless question.. what should i do if i actually wanted
>to say

>& g t ;

the html entity for 'ampersand' is '&'

so for '>' you'd need to write '&gt;'

(which will almost certainly not render correctly because i've just had to escape the escaping, if you see what i mean - view source)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(ha, it worked!)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's just the one list in the immediate past, but we kicked it about a little bit on the mods list a while back when a few other embed issues were happening (if I recall correctly).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't even know what {p}{/p} does! Everybody's got to learn

sooner or later

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha okay paragraph right

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, the funny thing is, you rarely ever see a paragraph tag closed; people treat it much like a tag...just a simple one-off formatting choice, but in theory, the paragraph tags are supposed to go around each paragraph.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It would have helped if Graham's syntax checker had comments to go along with it.

oh wait, I was supposed to do that last month, um well, aahh, guess I don't have to get around to that now.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

mr noodles email me with the syntax checker code! i bet i could even say to my boss that i was doing it for work!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

aargh annoying that [font] has gone! I like multi-coloured posts!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Consequently, if you want to use in a post for whatever

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

HUH?

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I still want to do the em thing.

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

HOW? may I ask, do I do that?

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

nevermind, figured it out,on my own,thank you very much

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I think logical tags lost the battle to physical ones some time ago.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 19 March 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

test

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, why was the <s>s tag taken out? I realize "strike" will work, but "s" is much shorter and easier...

</whine>

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

~~test~~

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 20 March 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

testing

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

~~testing~~

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with Jon about the stylesheets. That'd be way cool.
― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ilx + stylesheets
― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, you have your ILX, I'll have mine. That's the beauty! I'd like some soft tones and thin art-deco fonts, meself.
― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Did someone not close a tag or is this something different?
― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

THEY DONT KNOW HOW 2 CZECH HTML
― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

crazy kids
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate fun

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

~~FUN~~??

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

fun is so ~~exagge~~rated oh no

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon Williams still a dick shocker.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"dick shocker"

ouch

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ < shockah

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

testing

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

test ~~test~~

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

No marquee? :(

― webber (webber), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I still don't understand why <strike> is allowed but <s> isn't.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

To piss Jon Williams off.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

YES YES OH YAY

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Soemone should turn that off really fucking immediately.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, sorry, I misunderstood.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

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