Dummy trying HTML commands

24 Jul 97 - 04:07 PM (#9508)
Subject: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whippoorwill

While things are quiet this afternoon, let's see if I can do this,

or maybe this.

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24 Jul 97 - 07:44 PM (#9526)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alan of Oz

Whippoorwill,
Thanks for that, our posts can now be much more colourful. I'll experiment offline to see what other colours we can get.

Cheers,
Alan

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24 Jul 97 - 08:58 PM (#9534)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alice

Just experimenting. Thanks for starting this thread.

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24 Jul 97 - 09:00 PM (#9535)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alice

Whip.. how did you change the point size on the font for the word "this"?

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24 Jul 97 - 09:52 PM (#9538)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Alice, I think what he did was typed
font size equals seven
using the equals sign and the number seven, and enclosing them in brackets.
Of course, if we uninitiates* do it, we may make a mess of it. Be sure you know how to turn the effects off before you send the message.
Hope I did it right.
-Joe Offer-
Did I see somebody refer to "uninitiates" as "nubiles"???

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24 Jul 97 - 10:23 PM (#9543)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: suzy

Whip, How did you do the color thing?

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24 Jul 97 - 10:36 PM (#9545)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From:

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html#OC

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24 Jul 97 - 10:37 PM (#9546)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alice

Thanks. (That was a lovely malapropism from our blushing Belfast lady, typing "nubile" rather than "newbie".) What are effects and where do you turn them off? Alice

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24 Jul 97 - 11:40 PM (#9552)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Dale Rose

The main thing is don't overuse or misuse HTML or people will grow tired of it in a hurry, and you will wake up one morning and find that it has all been taken away. When I first discovered HTML, I wanted to use every trick that there was, which pretty much obscured what I was trying to say. Now I mostly just use plain old black on white for practically everything. And of course, whatever you do, remember to close your effects properly, or nasty things will happen! In a chat room, your mistakes (and mine) are fleeting~~here for the moment, and gone in a little while. Mistakes we make here will linger so long that everyone will be sick of seeing them!

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25 Jul 97 - 01:05 AM (#9558)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Dale Rose

Sorry I did not see (and answer) your question about effects, Alice. In my previous post, I used several totally unnecessary effects, in order, bold, underline, big, italic, blink, and color=red.

Go to the thread entitled Basic HTML commands for dummies to learn more about this sort of thing. Note that I used the bold effect to good advantage there, and turned it off properly!

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25 Jul 97 - 10:20 AM (#9573)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip

Morning, all.

Just go here, and you'll know all I know.

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25 Jul 97 - 10:25 AM (#9574)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip (skundered)

Oops!
Try that again, here, he said with a rueful grin.

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25 Jul 97 - 10:33 AM (#9575)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip

I told you I was a dummy.

If this is not right, I'm going back to bed and turn the electric blanket up to womb temperature.

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26 Jul 97 - 12:48 PM (#9615)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: suzy

Thanks Whip, I got there, but I'm going to have to return there when my brain is in refreshed-mode. Deep....deep....

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28 Jul 97 - 03:11 PM (#9689)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip

Sorry it took three strikes to get a hit. I think I'm suffering from old-timer's disease.

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29 Jul 97 - 11:56 AM (#9763)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Rick

Oh my God what did we start a few weeks back :-)

If you what to see how a particular HTML effect is achieved, see if your browser will let you look at the "Page Source" - this shows you the ASCII version of the page, and in my case, using Netscape Communicator, all the HTML is nicely rendered in various colours.

Rick.

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25 Jan 10 - 11:14 AM (#2821073)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy

HTML practice

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25 Jan 10 - 11:16 AM (#2821074)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy

HTML practice

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25 Jan 10 - 11:18 AM (#2821075)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy

Yippee! it worked!

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25 Jan 10 - 11:37 AM (#2821092)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: pdq

My favorite movie is One Flew Over The Coocoo's Nest.

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25 Jan 10 - 11:39 AM (#2821094)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy

Eh?

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25 Jan 10 - 11:42 AM (#2821097)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: pdq

I just figured out how to underline things. Don't read anything else into the post...really...

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25 Jan 10 - 11:45 AM (#2821102)
Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy

o i c! 8-)

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