The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16788   Message #159624
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Jan-00 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: Digital Tradition: How Does It Grow?
Subject: HTML for posting messages
Well, just in case you can't figure out the drop-down menu, you can click here for the "About the Digital Tradition" page. The drop-down menus and the menu at the top of most pages may be easy to miss for some people, but once you get used to it, it makes things easier to find.

There are only two HTML things you need to learn to make you look like a whiz around here. First, and most important, is the line break, just a BR enclosed in two angle brackets, which looks likt this

<br>

The thing that really makes you look like a star is when you do the sacred blue clicky thing, which looks like this:

<a href=http://www.mudcat.org/>Click here</a>

I realize that some people use quotation marks within links, but they're not needed here and tend to cause more problems than they solve. You can actually copy this example, and save it in a collection of HTML tags - just replace the red part with the complete URL you want to link to, including the http:// stuff (best to copy it from the address bar of your browser, and paste it into the link). The blue part is your reference word, and can be anything you want. then, as in all HTML tags, you close it off with a slash and a repeat of the command, </a>, in this case.
For more neat tricks, search the Forum for HTML.
-Joe Offer-