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html practice thread II

11 Jan 00 - 12:35 PM (#161156)
Subject: html practice thread II
From: JedMarum

time to start a new practice thread, since the other is a bit long in the tooth ...

11 Jan 00 - 11:24 PM (#161474)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Áine

Dear Joe,

Was I hallucinating (not likely!) or did I see somewhere on the Mudcat html threads a mention of a way of making a hypertext link WITHOUT having the link show up with underlining under the words? If you know how to do this, I would really appreciate it if you'd share it me.

-- Áine

11 Jan 00 - 11:53 PM (#161487)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Wincing Devil

Will this work?
Click to display

Please don't use embedded images at Mudcat.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

12 Jan 00 - 04:48 AM (#161564)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: MudGuard

Dear Áine,

I hope you accept the answer from me although I am NOT Joe.
This:
<a href="http://www.mudcat.org" style="text-decoration:none">www.mudcat.org</a>
should do the trick, as in:
www.mudcat.org

MudGuard

12 Jan 00 - 08:58 AM (#161616)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Áine

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mudguard!!!!!

May your html work forever on the first try ;-), Áine

12 Jan 00 - 12:30 PM (#161704)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: JedMarum

the event here. If

12 Jan 00 - 12:41 PM (#161710)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Áine

Great pics, Liam! But, why don't you put the guys' names underneath their pictures?

-- Áine

14 Jan 00 - 12:48 PM (#162820)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

Testing, 1, 2, 3....

this should be in 9-point type this should be in 12-point, and this should be 9-point and this should be 12 point again.

Special chars: ð þ © 2’

end of test

14 Jan 00 - 12:52 PM (#162821)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

soþlice þ&230;t is mine 2¢

14 Jan 00 - 01:44 PM (#162846)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Mary in Kentucky

This is sorta HTML stuff...

When I tried to copy and print out a thread here, my word processing program (either Microsoft Word or Lotus WordPro) wouldn't take it, so I copied and pasted into NotePad. Here's my question...how do I get rid of all the spaces? I assume I have to get back into Word or WordPro. I know how to search and replace all the > signs in my email forwards, but I simply can't figure out how to use the trim function in WordPro. Any thoughts?

Mary

14 Jan 00 - 05:36 PM (#162939)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

What size is this? and this?

14 Jan 00 - 05:43 PM (#162941)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From:

that should have worked

14 Jan 00 - 05:51 PM (#162951)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

how about this?

14 Jan 00 - 05:52 PM (#162954)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

how about this?

æ and ç and è

14 Jan 00 - 10:16 PM (#163102)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

wincing devil..it sure DOES work...and gives away all your secrets, too..*grin*...see you at the mini-fest

15 Jan 00 - 03:41 AM (#163255)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: MudGuard

Hi Mary in Kentucky,
if the only purpose of putting a thread into Word is the printing of it, why don't you use the print feature of your browser?
Just for a test I copied and pasted this thread here into Word (Word 97, SR1). Although it looks a bit different there this is mostly because the images are missing. So I don't know which spaces disturb you. If you can be a bit more specific, I might be able to help.

MudGuard

15 Jan 00 - 04:06 AM (#163256)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Will Bakker

I'm sure this has been asked before, but can someone tell me as simple as possible how to make a blue clicky thing? I use a Mac, if it makes any difference.

15 Jan 00 - 08:48 AM (#163282)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From:

just testing

15 Jan 00 - 08:49 AM (#163283)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From:

just testing

just testing

15 Jan 00 - 10:16 AM (#163311)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

to make a blue clicky thing:

type a left angle bracket <, then type a href=,

then type,(or better, paste) the address you want folks to go to as in: http://www.mudcat.org/

then type a right angle bracket >

then type the words you want folks to READ..this can be the address again, or a descriptive phrase....

then type another LEFT angle bracket <, and back slash /, to indicate the expression is finished, then a last right angle bracket >

this ends up looking like this [a href=http://www.mudcat.org/]GO HERE[/a], but with < & > instead of [ & ]...(Joe will probably post his fancy version again...I can almost do it, but am rushing right now)(if you don't do a special trick, the demo ends up working, and you can't see the point)

15 Jan 00 - 10:54 AM (#163320)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Will Bakker

Thank you Bill D. I tried it out in a mail to myself and it WORKS! I didn't think it could be that simple. Thanks again.

15 Jan 00 - 11:14 AM (#163330)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

Wince, I like the cat.

It seems as though the mnemonics for special characters aren't recognized in all versions of HTML.

typeing "Á" should echos as a capital A with an acute accent; does it ?-- Á

15 Jan 00 - 11:20 AM (#163333)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

Now try "þ" -- þ

"ð" -- ð

"â" -- â
"ã" -- ã
"ä" -- ä
"å" -- å
"æ" -- æ
"ç" -- ç
"è" -- è
"é" -- é
"ê" -- ê
"ë" -- ë
"ì" -- ì

15 Jan 00 - 11:27 AM (#163337)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

So eth and thorn don't work on some browsers. The one I'm presently using show them as question marks.

"í" -- í "ø" -- ø
"î" -- î "ù" -- ù
"ï" -- ï "ú" -- ú
"ð" -- ð "û" -- û
"ñ" -- ñ "ü" -- ü
"ò" -- ò "ý" -- ý
"ó" -- ó "þ" -- þ
"ô" -- ô "ÿ" -- ÿ
"õ" -- õ "Ā" -- Ā
"ö" -- ö "ā" -- ā
"÷" -- ÷ "Ă" -- Ă

15 Jan 00 - 11:47 AM (#163342)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From:

It seems to have to do with what fonts are installed locally, not with the HTML version. My current browser shows ASCII 253 and 254. Numbers 256-258 show as question marks, as they must, because 255 is the highest number that can be specified with eight bits.

"É" -- É "Ó" -- Ó "Ê" -- Ê "Ô" -- Ô "Ë" -- Ë "Õ" -- Õ "Ì" -- Ì "Ö" -- Ö "Í" -- Í "×" -- × "Î" -- Î "Ø" -- Ø "Ï" -- Ï "Ù" -- Ù "Ð" -- Ð "Ú" -- Ú "Ñ" -- Ñ "Û" -- Û "Ò" -- Ò "Ü" -- Ü

15 Jan 00 - 11:57 AM (#163346)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

My current browser shows ASCII 253 and 254 as question marks.

"Ý" -- Ý "" -- ƒ
"Þ" -- Þ "" -- „
"ß" -- ß "" -- …
"à" -- à "" -- †
"á" -- á "" -- ‡
"â" -- â "" -- ˆ
"ã" -- ã "" -- ‰
"ä" -- ä "" -- Š
"å" -- å "" -- ‹
"æ" -- æ "" -- Œ

15 Jan 00 - 11:59 AM (#163347)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

What's with the tab character ?

1&tab;2�x009;3 4

15 Jan 00 - 12:01 PM (#163351)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

How about the two tabs ?

1 2 3 4

15 Jan 00 - 12:03 PM (#163352)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Okiemockbird

How about the two tabs and an equal spaced font ?

1 2 3 4

15 Jan 00 - 03:09 PM (#163414)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

at least on a PC, all I need to do is hold down the 'alt' ket and type the hex #..."alt 0223" = ß, for example

15 Jan 00 - 04:41 PM (#163455)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Wincing Devil

When you want to space Something out, you have to use a non-breaking space " " (without the quotes). To get an ampersand (&) you need "&". Don't forget the trailing semi-colon.

When I post HTML messages, I edit them in a text editor and check it with my browser 1st, so I have a vague idea what it should look like.

Next, we can discuss thumbnails ;-)

Click the pic!

Wincing Devil
There is no such thing as an ugly cat (http://www.ILoveMySphynx.com)

15 Jan 00 - 10:13 PM (#163700)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: BK

Wincing Devil: what is the history of the Sphynx breed? They are new to me.

Cheers, BK (a cat person)

16 Jan 00 - 12:34 AM (#163750)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Wincing Devil

Clickez ici to go to the home page of the International Sphynx Breeders and Fanciers Association. They can tell it a lot better than I can. Talking Cats on Mudcat reminds me of one of my favorite taglines:

God's two greatest creations are Cats and Music

Wincing Devil
There is no such thing as an ugly cat (http://www.ILoveMySphynx.com

16 Jan 00 - 01:47 PM (#163885)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Will Bakker

I would like to pass my blue clicky thing examination here: go here

16 Jan 00 - 01:51 PM (#163888)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Will Bakker

Wow! This monkey learned a new trick! thanks again Bill D.

16 Jan 00 - 03:27 PM (#163915)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

yep, Will, I remember when I first figured out how to do that...

(another trick is to 'steal' HTML when you see something you'd like to imitate, by using the drop-down menu at the top under 'view'(at least in Netscape) and choosing 'page source'...this gets the HTML that created the page you are looking at, and you can scroll around until you find exactly how the effect you admire was obtained...then highlight and copy it and mess with the details..or, just make a file and keep lists of your favorite HTML there until you remember how to do it by yourself..I used to paste the basic 'blue clicky thing' in, paste in the address, THEN fill in what I wanted it to say...)

18 Jan 00 - 08:39 AM (#164570)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: AKS

This link should take you to the Front Page of University of Joensuu the one that is in English I mean have a go: Click here

18 Jan 00 - 08:46 AM (#164573)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: AKS

Ookay them boys seems to have prevented the direct access of the English pages let's try this one: Click here

18 Jan 00 - 09:01 AM (#164575)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: AKS

And now the line breaks

then one day when I was six
I was chopping out some sticks
when a nasty little gleam came to my eye
I ran down to the john and shoved it off the lawn
into the river flowing gently by

soon my pappy ...

18 Jan 00 - 10:37 AM (#164600)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: jeffp

practice blue clicky thing
click here

18 Jan 00 - 06:24 PM (#164816)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

G     C     F  D       A

ladidiladidiladladididiladidi

18 Jan 00 - 06:26 PM (#164817)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

G      C    F  D        A

ladididladidladladidididladi

18 Jan 00 - 06:28 PM (#164819)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

G   C   F

ladiladiladi

18 Jan 00 - 06:30 PM (#164820)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

G   C   F

ladiladiladi

test

18 Jan 00 - 06:32 PM (#164821)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

G   C

ladiladi

F   D

lodolodo

A G

leledede

18 Jan 00 - 06:33 PM (#164822)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Mary in Kentucky

Hi MudGuard--sorry I'm a bit tardy in getting back to this thread. Your help is greatly appreciated.

I just printed out this thread, and it took 15 pages. It probably would have taken about twice that many in Notepad because every line has a few too many characters on it and is continued on the next line with only one word on that line. Then there are double and triple spaces between posts.

The reason I wanted to copy and paste into a word processing program was so that I could edit out things, thereby having fewer pages to keep up with. The first page and a half lists the posters, and then there are menus and double spaces between posts.

Ideally, I would copy and paste into Word and just delete the stuff I didn't want. But when I tried that, I just got a blank box (maybe I need to go back and try again). So I pasted into Notepad and got lots of extra spaces and lines which would take too much time to go through and delete. I could then copy and paste this into Word and use the search and replace functions, but I couldn't get the search and replace to work for deleting spaces.

Is this at all clear?

Swimmin' in a mudhole,
Mary

PS How did Wincing Devil make the thumbnail? Can I do that with Paint Shop Pro?

18 Jan 00 - 06:45 PM (#164827)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

I'd like to offer the following chord sequence. I got it from "The Folksingers Wordbook", and to my ear it's a better fit to the tune than the one previously listed.

          Em                 Em              G       G  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, haroo
            Em                 Em              G       B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, harroo
            Em                 Am                  Em               B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, the enemy nearly slew ya     Em      Am       Em      B7     Em       Am     Em  My darling dear you look so queer, Johnny I hardly knew ya

18 Jan 00 - 06:47 PM (#164828)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

I'd like to offer the following chord sequence. I got it from "The Folksingers Wordbook", and to my ear it's a better fit to the tune than the one previously listed.

          Em                 Em              G       G  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, haroo
            Em                 Em              G       B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, harroo
            Em                 Am                  Em           B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, the enemy nearly slew ya     Em      Am       Em      B7     Em       Am     Em  My darling dear you look so queer, Johnny I hardly knew ya

18 Jan 00 - 06:49 PM (#164832)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

I'd like to offer the following chord sequence. I got it from "The Folksingers Wordbook", and to my ear it's a better fit to the tune than the one previously listed.

          Em                 Em              G       G  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, haroo
            Em                 Em              G       B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, harroo
            Em                 Am                  Em       B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, the enemy nearly slew ya
     Em      Am       Em      B7     Em       Am     Em  My darling dear you look so queer, Johnny I hardly knew ya

18 Jan 00 - 06:52 PM (#164834)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Gary T

I'd like to offer the following chord sequence. I got it from "The Folksingers Wordbook", and to my ear it's a better fit to the tune than the one previously listed.

          Em                 Em              G       G  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, haroo
            Em                 Em              G       B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, harroo
            Em                 Am                  Em           B7  With your guns and drums and drums and guns, the enemy nearly slew ya
     Em      Am       Em      B7     Em       Am     Em  My darling dear you look so queer, Johnny I hardly knew ya

18 Jan 00 - 07:07 PM (#164846)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

You CAN make a thumbnail with PSP, but making it clickable is a matter of HTML..(that is, adding a code that says "when clicking this pic, do 'x'"

his code looked like this, only with < > instead of [ ]

[a href=http://www.digizen.net/members/vwilding/daguys.htm] [img src = http://www.digizen.net/members/vwilding/thumnail.jpg[/a][br][font size=-3>Click the pic![/font]

one can either 'learn' this, or use an HTML editor that writes it FOR you...I am about to launch into a 2nd level of this. To show it here, I simply copied his code from the 'page source'....the trick of putting a picture on THIS page, (called 'inline' pics) is simply the part of the code that says 'img src..' etc...but Max has asked us NOT to do many images, since, if the page where the image is located is down, or slow, this thread will be very slow to load while it waits for that image. Ina passing thread, it might not make much difference, but some of these threads last for weeks, and are often refreshed, so a cute little image might be there for a few days, then be taken off, and the link would no longer work, and all your friends would be grumpy that the thread was S*L*O*W...

(I'm sure Wincing Devils page is pretty safe, but....)

(a couple of years ago, we did a thread that included a bunch of Winnie-the-Pooh images, and it got to be a real hassle!)

18 Jan 00 - 07:14 PM (#164848)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

Gary T...awhile back, we tried this as an easy way to put in chord notation...what do you think?

With your ^Emguns and drums and ^Emdrums and guns, ^Gharroo, haroo

18 Jan 00 - 07:26 PM (#164852)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

It involves using the code for "superscript"

one CAN also make the suprscript a bit smaller type....

18 Jan 00 - 07:31 PM (#164857)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

With your ^Emguns and drums and drums and guns, harroo, haroo

(hope I did that right...but this IS practice!)

18 Jan 00 - 07:37 PM (#164860)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Mary in Kentucky

I think I can figure out the HTML, I was just curious as to the thumbnails. Don't worry, they won't be posted here! Actually I have a bunch of wedding pictures to show family that ended up too large for e-mail!

Thanks,
Mary

19 Jan 00 - 02:43 AM (#165128)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: MudGuard

Hi Mary in Kentucky,

sorry I am not too familiar with Word, so I can't help you there.
But if you want to remove something at the beginning and/or at the end of a page, move the mouse cursor to the first thing you want, press and hold left mouse button, move mouse curser to the last thing you want and release left mouse button. The part of the page should now be highlighted. Now go to file menu and "print..." command. In the box select "Selection only" instead of "All" where you are asked for the print range.

cu,
MudGuard

19 Jan 00 - 08:08 AM (#165175)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: AKS

this is to check whether Netscape can handle Russian alphabet:

ýòî ÿ êòî ïèøåò

19 Jan 00 - 10:52 AM (#165229)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Bill D

to handle Russian..(Cyrillic) you would have to go to "edit,preferences, languages" in the drop-down menu, and choose to view pages in Russian...but then, anyone you wanted to post to, would ALSO have to have that option enabled...so it is not really easy to mix languages that do not share the 0-255 character set that is the Windows default....(now, there ARE programs to allow certain Asian languages to be viewed. One called NJWin has support for several, including 3-4 or more Japanese & Chinese scripts. It works only when you enable it, and 'looks' at pages you view, and renders any chosen characters in thier proper form.. Perhaps there is something similar for Cyrillic *shrug*)

19 Jan 00 - 11:53 AM (#165260)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: Mary in Kentucky

I think I got it! Edit/Find/More/Special Turn on the Hide/Show and search and replace paragraph marks.

In general, you can search and replace in most word processing programs. The trick is to know the vocabulary for what you want to do so you can find the appropriate words in the help menu.

I made two mistakes (OK, three or more.)

1)When I copied and pasted into Word I did something wrong. It WILL work.
2) I didn't use the show/hide function to see all those paragraph marks.
3)I didn't know the words to use in the help menu. Somewhere in the search and replace help I read about the special button.

I'll play with this some more. I think for the kind of editing I want to do, I'll have to manually insert some kind of mark and then search and replace that mark. This was discussed here somewhere as a quick and easy way to put lots of break marks at the ends of lyrics lines.

Mary

26 Jan 00 - 06:51 AM (#168510)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: lloyd61

This is a test
test
test

test

I hate computers. To think I have made my living with the darn things since 1958, now I'm having to start all over again at Computer 101.

26 Jan 00 - 06:53 AM (#168511)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: lloyd61

OK, it's a start, it worked! now on to fonts!

26 Jan 00 - 07:19 AM (#168515)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: bassen

just checking>a href=http://www.musicaviva.com/index.html>musica viva

26 Jan 00 - 07:20 AM (#168516)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: bassen

check againmusica viva

26 Jan 00 - 02:10 PM (#168682)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: GUEST,Okiemockbird

whazzis?

whazzat?

26 Jan 00 - 02:12 PM (#168683)
Subject: RE: html practice thread II
From: GUEST,Okiemockbird

     whazza              other?