HTML Practice Thread

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 12:48 AM

practice, practise, practice, practise
or Vice-versa

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 12:57 AM

Hey, Joe. What's the HTML for making a word appear on the line someplace other than the left margine? (What's the HTML equivalent of pressing the space bar?)

Thanks,

Carol

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 01:46 AM

Well, Carol, there are some fancy ways of doing it, but I usually use

<blockquote> </blockquote> for indenting and <center><center> for obvious purposes.

A Non-Breaking SPace looks like this: &nbsp; (don't forget the semicolon). Type one, and then highlight and copy-paste it as often as you need.
      This indent took 6 nonbreaking spaces.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:27 AM

Thanks, Joe. It's good to have you back.

Carol

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:43 AM

Oh we're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo
 How about you, you, you
  You can come too, too, too
   'Cause we're going to the zoo

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:48 AM

Instrument Related

AMERICAN BANJO MAKERS Civil War to WWII	http://www.mugwumps.com/banjomak.htm#F
A listing of makers from the Civil War to WWII with dates of manufacture......MK
Ancestral Instruments	http://www.ancestral.co.uk/bagpipes.htm
The always surprising Yamaha. Nice instruments that rival many of the big boys for sound and finish. I don't recall ever hearing a bad comment around here regarding them......Spaw

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: NightWing
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 05:02 PM

I've wanted to ask these questions, but now I've got a place to just try and see.

So, do the following HTML tags work in here?

<TT>

The teletype tag shows up as a monospaced font.

The <HR> tag makes a horizontal rule. This one should be centered and 3/4 of the width of the browser screen.

---

How about the <TABLE> tag? (Part of a song posted elsewhere)

1	HUZZA! brave Boys, behold the Pope, Pretender and Old-Nick, How they together lay their Heads, To plot a poison Trick?	2	To blow up KING and PARLIAMENT To Flitters, rent and torn: --Oh! blund'ring Poet, Since the Plot, Was this Pretender born.--
3	Yet, sure upon this famous Stage, He's got together now; And had he then, he'd been a Rogue As bad as t'other two.	4	Come on, brave Youths, drag on your Pope Let's see his frightful Phiz: Let's view his Features rough and fierce, That Map of Ugliness!

And what about the <PRE> tag? <PRE> tells the browser to pay attention to spacing and typed hard returns, instead of ignoring them like it usually does.

  This line should be right against the left margin.    This one is two spaces to the right.      And this one is four.  

Sometimes the <PRE> tag requires actually typing in the line break tag (<BR>). This one has them; the one before didn't.

  This line should be right against the left margin. 
    This one is two spaces to the right. 
      And this one is four. 
  

So, let's enter this and see how it looks.

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: NightWing
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 05:05 PM

Cool-O!

Somehow though, I suspect the lyric harvesters would probably prefer that people didn't use <TABLE> for lyrics, even long ones.

BB,
NightWing (again)

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 05:15 PM

You're darn right about using tables for posting lyrics, NightWing. I just copy-pasted your table into Word, and it makes a big mess when you try to convert it to a text file.
Looks pretty when you post it here, but it's a nightmare to harvest.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 05:38 PM

Pretty good NightWing, I'm pretty sure that Joe and the JoeClones award you 100% for your HTML (even though the lyric harvesters would not appreciate tables for lyrics). I wish I was that accurate with the stuff!

Jon

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: NightWing
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 06:08 PM

Joe,

I had assumed that copying and pasting from the page source might be workable, but when I looked at it just now, it was still a mess. I could write a macro that would pull it out pretty easily, but (obviously) it's a lot neater and cleaner to not bother with the damn table. If I use it again, I just won't use it for lyrics.

Jon,

You don't seriously think I simply typed that table in, do you? *L* I had it in an HTML file on my desktop and was able to test it to be sure it looked the way I wanted it to. Then I simply copied and pasted from Notepad into the Message field and clicked "Submit".

Yeah, I'm pretty good at HTML *blush*, but I would NEVER have tried submitting something like that if I hadn't tried it out locally first.

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 06:17 PM

It doesn't always work, though. A while ago I posted something here using <PRE> tags to get a fancy layout. Tested it on IE and Netscape and it looked perfect.

But you have to put the <BR> tags in, or the Mudcat servers just ignore all your PRE linebreaks. Was I blushing!

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 08:04 PM

It seems that an experimental link-maker Max wrote is still there...you might try this for some things (bet he has forgotten about it)

http://www.mudcat.org/@/@experiment.html

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 02:26 AM

I don't understand how it works.

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 03:31 AM

Jon,
it's not a problem of HTML tables,
Word makes a mess of pretty much everything you copy into it... ;-)
CarolC, if you specify more exactly what you don't understand, we might be able to explain. But it is very hard to explain complete HTML.
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 04:17 AM

Sorry.

I don't understand how to use the place I ended up in when I clicked on Bill D's link.

Carol

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:06 AM

It is quite easy to use: type in some text. When you want some (e.g.) bold text, click on the bold button and type the text to be bold between the <b> and the </b> tags. Similarly for italic.
If you want to insert a link, click on link and replace the "www.somewhere.com" with the real url. Same for an image.
if you click "Preview" a small window will be opened which shows how your text will appear.
BR inserts a linebreak.
If you click on "Reset", all your text will be cleared.
You can also use html tags which are not offered by the buttons, they will still show up in the preview.

If you are finished (if the preview looks like you want it), you can select (highlight) your text and copy and paste it into the textbox for answering (or creating) a posting.
HTH,
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:28 AM

Thanks, MudGuard.

Carol

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: TheMuse
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 08:00 PM

practicing

more practicing

and

more

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: TheMuse
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 08:01 PM

one more try

to be sure

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: TheMuse
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 08:01 PM

got it I think

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: TheMuse
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 08:56 PM

great link Bill D, if it isn't already part of the intro permathread, it should be!

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 01:30 PM

here you go

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 04:43 PM

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Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:03 PM

Ok, I'm just now looking at this thread for the first time since my last post to it. I notice that where I had posted the ZOO song with HTML for centering, there is now a BIG honking list of instrument related links. Anybody got any idea about how that happened?

Carol

Subject: RE: HTML Practice Thread
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:06 PM

Honk honk rattle rattle beep beep, I didn't do it!!

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I'm playing with ASC codes that are not on my table.......
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