Ignore this - HTML Practice - marquee

Subject: Ignore this
From:
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 01:51 PM

I'm just trying to get some html code to work with the mudcat messages.

new and used books

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From:
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 01:53 PM

Books - New & Used

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From:
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 04:21 PM

The Tale of Ale

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 04:30 PM

Try these HTML tags: click here

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Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bert
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:07 PM

Just couldn't ignore it could you Joe :-)

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:18 PM

Hey, Bert, an "ignore this" thread is a veritable playground, isn't it? -Joe Offer®- I decided if Billy Joel® can trademark his name, so should I.

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:38 PM

How's this? -Joe Offer®-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:54 PM

very good Joe!...I gotta practice that...there are places where I need the attention...*grin*

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Banjer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:55 PM

SHOW OFF! -BANJER®-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Banjer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:58 PM

This is neat, yestuddy i cudnt evan spel html and hear i are doin' it! I'm glad I ignored this like I was told!

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:27 PM

You are all terrible show offs!

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:30 PM

Those who inadvertantly paid attention to this silly thread, may instead, disregard this addendum -Bill D™-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:31 PM

they may also disregard my spelling...

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Matthew B.
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:36 PM

Alright, that does it.

I want to know how you did each one of those!!!!

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:36 PM

I knew that Jeri was going to be a great asset to this community. It's good to know we have a gal who's ready to put you HTML show-offs in your places. Alison could probably do it, too, I realize, and Alice, and Barbara, etc., but Jeri has more time, now that she's retired. See you at Old Songs, Compu-whiz!

Sandy, famous Cyber-klutz

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Penny S.
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:36 PM

I've just been reading the source stuff, and I still don't know!

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:55 PM

all I did was go to 'view source' and blatantly copy the right lines and then substitute a few words...(ya gotta be careful though

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Penny S.
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 07:12 PM

Fun, isn't it? But what do the colour codes mean?

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 07:13 PM

OK, Jeri, I'm impressed....but I learn quick. -Joe Offer®-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 07:58 PM

here is a page showing the colors and their codes...color codes

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Margo
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 08:20 PM

Yeah, but what about the moving sign?

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 08:35 PM

The moving sign uses the <marquee> command, Margarita. If you find an HTML trick you want to imitate, right-click on the page you like and choose "view source." Then steal whatever you like from the information that appears on your screen. You can cut-and-pase the major stuff, and insert your own changes. Instead of the number codes for colors, you can use the words posted in the chart Bill linked to. The code for my banner message is below.
-Joe Offer-

<P><div align="center"><center> <P> <table border="2" width=100% bgcolor="hotpink" bordercolor="#008080" bordercolordark="#008000" bordercolorlight="#00FF00"> <tr> <td><font color="white" size="7"><marquee scrollamount="5" scrolldelay="1">OK, Jeri, I'm impressed....but I learn quick. -Joe Offer<small>®</small>-</marquee></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <P>

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 08:36 PM

You type in:
<marquee>then type the text you want to scroll </marquee>

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 08:39 PM

Jeri, do you mean I don't need all that other fancy stuff?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Dave Swan
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 09:51 PM

I've tried and tried to make this work. Can anyone tell me how to get Crayola marks off of my monitor?

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 09:52 PM

Ya' mean I might learn enough to do my own webpage, someday??? This is really KOOL!Katlaughing®-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 10:40 PM

No, Joe	you don't	need
all of	that extra	stuff

Sandy seemed to imply I had too much time on my hands. Sandy is a wise man.

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: gargoyle
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 10:55 PM

Ya All forgot my favorite -gargoyle

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: alison
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 11:04 PM

Hahahahahaha... just had to give this a go.... slainte alison

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 11:05 PM

What if	I try	something
different?	Joe Offer	®

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 11:23 PM

G'day,
Well I've only got an old version of Netscape here at work so I can't see all the effects here. I'll have to wait till I get home to ignore this thread.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: alison
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 11:25 PM

Just thought I'd try one of these too slainte alison

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: alison
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 11:31 PM

This is	fun, but	is it screwing up the 'cat
will Max get annoyed with us?	slainte alison

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: alison
Date: 21 Jun 99 - 11:38 PM

Hahahahaha...

OK I'll stop now..... but seriously.. remember when Max didn't want us to use pictures because it slowed everything down.... does html work the same way? (I know.. computer thicky.. I admit it)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Margo
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 12:07 AM

Oh, to cut and paste is a wonderful thing! Margarita®-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 12:08 AM

Nope, Alison, you're safe. Unsing embedded photos and sounds from other sites slowed things down because browsers have to get the information from all the sites involved - a thread with thirty pictures could have to download from as many as 30 sites, plus Mudcat. HTML comes straight through, direct from the 'Cat to you. the excessive use of HTML in threads does tend to make the threads hard to read - but in goofoff threads like this one, who cares?
Have fun, O fair one.
-Joe Offer®-

Hey, do ALL of you have trademarked names like mine????

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 01:02 AM

hello!	My name is	theo
this sure	l-00-ks	Cool doesn't it?

Succesfully stolen by - Theo© :-)

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 01:04 AM

We're COPYRIGHTED, not TRADEMARKED. (Please don't trade me).
Mark

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 01:16 AM

Uh, yeah............Peter T. and I were having a bit of discussion the other day about wasted time, intellect, space, bandwidth, etc. I got to thinking about it more and more and began to feel my life had turned compleyely to shit.

Thanks guys, I knew you'd come through......I feel much better now.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 01:56 AM

I think all you show-offs have given me a virus: I've got a thin strip of "a go slainte alison stuck across the top of the page and a few scattered letters hiding behind the windowframe at the bottom (they are blue). Bad things can happen when people get powers they can't control: {:>

(:>)-) )

--seed (I suppose we've gotta put up with this gunk in all the threads from now on)(why couldn't I--for once-- ignore an "ignore this"?)

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: MudGuard
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 02:13 AM

Penny S.,
about the color codes (the numeric ones):
they contain three numbers of two hexadecimal (see below)digits each. The first is the red, the second the green, the third the blue part of the color (also called an RGB value).
The higher the number for a color part, the brighter is the color.
000000 means none of the colors is present, resulting in black.
ffffff means all colors in full brightness = white.
ff0000 is a bright red,
008000 is a dark green,
0000c0 is a medium blue,
ffff00 is bright yellow,
ff8000 is orange
and so on, you just mix red, blue and green (results may vary slightly from screen to screen).

Now for hexadecimal digits:
It is a number system with a base of sixteen instead of the usual 10.
Its digits are presented as
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b ,c, d, e, f
It does not matter whether you use abcdef or ABCDEF
a stands for a value of 10,
b stands for a value of 11,
... f stands for a value of 15.

So if you have a hex (short for hexadecimal) number of a4e, you can translate it into the decimal system like this:
Step 1: take the value of the first digit
Step 2: if no digit is following, you are finished
Step 3: multiply your result by 16
Step 4: add the value of the digit.
Step 5: go to Step 2

With the example of a4e:
Step 1 results in 10 (value of a is 10).
Step 2: not valid, there are 2 more digits (4e)
Step 3 results in 160.
Step 4 results in 164 (value of 4 is 4).
Step 5 leads to step 2.
Step 2: not valid, another digit (e).
Step 3 results in 2624
Step 4 results in 2638 (value of e is 14).
Step 5 leads to step 2.
Step 2 valid, no more digits, we are finished: hex a4e = decimal 2638.
Now here is one for you to exercise: abc1

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 02:18 AM

Now, class, if you have trouble with the wonderful lecture Andreas just presented, take off your shoes and socks - and don't count on your thumbs or big toes.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: MudGuard
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 02:19 AM

Please put on your socks and shoes again before I suffocate!!!
Andreas

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: alison
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 03:56 AM

sorry Seed... I didn't meant to get stuck in your computer..... now can someone else fix it for him?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 04:46 AM

G'day,
Another lesson in case anyone's wondering why we bother to use hexadecimal at all:

Although hexadecimal is a numbering system in its own right, it can be used very conveniently as a shorthand method of writing binary numbers which is the only system that your CPU knows. Each hex digit translates directly to 4 bi(nary digi)ts or bits.

Hex bin
0 0000
1 0001
.
.
.
E 1110
F 1111

so 9AF5 = 1001 1010 1111 0101
and B4EC = 1011 0100 1110 1100

Just thought you needed to know.........

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Banjer
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 04:53 AM

Thanks, Alan, but what the hell is it we know now? Boy this is getting real technical real fast.

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Wally Macnow
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 06:59 AM

Sheesh! And all I was trying to do was get the "" link coding right.

Please don't throw me in that briar patch.

Wally

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 08:45 AM

Well Banj, I'm with you!!! I got all this stuff down here in print for posterity sake and now if I had had any inkling of what the f*** any of it means, I could truly say, "Oh yeah, sure," and mean it!

catspaw

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: SueH
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 11:05 AM

I think this is the universal thread response, had to do it, but....

if I get the sack, it's all your fault!!

Subject: RE: Ignore this
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jun 99 - 01:03 PM

in response to Mark wayyyyy ^ up there...I was Bill D™...not Bill D^® or Bill D^©...and in another chat place once, I was ßI££ Ð....

(and now I'm just waiting till they figure out how to make the font I choose to appear on YOUR screens!)...I have been collecting neat fonts for 2 years, and though I can read Mudcat in Baskerville or Kelmscott if I wish, I can't share it with YOU easily...bet someone is already working on it...