HTML practice thread

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Aug 00 - 04:20 AM

So, CarolC - Does it Work? Joe Offer

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Aug 00 - 03:39 AM

Sorry, gotta try it.

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Mark Clark
Date: 27 Aug 00 - 01:20 AM

  Now is the time  for all good men
  to come to the aid

of the party

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: RichM
Date: 10 Jul 00 - 10:38 AM

Um...thanks...I think... This reminds of Wordperfect, and its "reveal codes"...

I think I will wait till technology catches up...

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Jul 00 - 04:41 AM

RichM,
badly copied! To turn off bold, it needs </b>, not <b>!
And all three of your marquees are incorrect (even if the last one might look correct! But as I disencourage use of the internet explorer specific marquee (as well as the netscape specific blink) I won't tell you what is wrong with them!
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Mark Clark
Date: 30 Jun 00 - 01:02 AM

Here are the lyrics to "Coot From Tennessee." I copied these down from the Greenbriar Boys' record but I'm afraid, on my old copy at least, some of the words are pretty hard to make out. I've numbered each line so I can easily refer back and give other possibilities for the words on that line.

Coot From Tennessee

1. I know an old coot from Tennessee,
2. Lord, wicked as he could be,
3. He didn't even believe in Church or Sunday School,
4. All he believed was to socialize,
5. Having him a good time all his life,
6. Well he broke up the congregation when he stood.
   
   Chorus:
   
7. Sayin' I'm gonna live and how until I die,
8. This life I'm livin' it's so very high,
9. Sticks and stones gonna break my bones,
10. Will you talk about me when I'm dead and gone,
11. I'm gonna live and how until I die.
    
    
12. Now he went to Church last Sunday morn,
13. Everybody in the world was there but one,
14. Would you hear those mourners sing and pray,
15. When the choir begun to sing,
16. Every bell in the steeple started to shake and ring,
17. But he broke up the congregation when he said.
    
    Chorus:
    
18. I'm gonna run me a cemetery of my own,
19. If you don't leave my sweet gal alone,
20. Gonna buy me a razor, gonna scrape the blade,
21. Gonna lay some son-of-a-gun in the shade,
22. Oh, I'm gonna run me a cemetery of my own.
    
    Final chorus:
    
23. I'm gonna live and how until I die,
24. This life I'm livin' it's so very high,
25. Sticks and stones gonna break my bones,
26. Well I know you're gonna think about me when I'm gone,
27. I'm gonna live and how until I die.

Possible errors are as follows:

Line 7 is probably wrong but the words above are the only ones that make any sense. The line is garbled but probably ends in some kind of an "ard" sylable like "bard."

Line 8 may then end in the word "hard."

Line 11 should match whatever translation is used for line 7.

Line 14 may not begin with the word "would." The word is passed over very quickly so I'm not sure.

Line 16 actually sounds as if they are singing "Little Billy in the steeple.." but that makes no sense so I imagine what I've used is what they're actually singing.

Lines 23 and 27 have the same problems as lines 7 and 11.

If anyone knows for certain what the questionable words should be, please post them. I'd rather have it be correct if it's headed for the data base.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 09:02 AM

As most of this has been answered before, here just the link to More of the HTML stuff. If this is not enough, search the forum for HTML and you will find some more threads about HTML.
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Noreen
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 05:52 AM

Thank you, Wolfgang and Snuffy.

MudGuard:

Unconditionally forgiven.

No more marquees.

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Jun 00 - 02:13 AM

Noreen,
sorry if I confused you. This was not my intention. It is my fault - even me is not perfect!. I answered to BlueJays html code addressing you. I think when I looked up the name of the poster I just looked one post further up then I should have.
I promise not to do it again (at least not intentionally) - hope you will forgive me ;-)

I did never say you must not mention the marquee. It is okay to mention it if you damn it ;-).

MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 07:28 PM

In Internet Explorer ALT+V C (View Source)

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Wolfgang
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:26 AM

How to see what doesn't show? In Netscape: ctrlU

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Noreen
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 09:13 AM

You confused me there, MudGuard, but after studying your post I think you must be referring to BlueJay's post @1.02pm.
I seem to have have got this limited amount of HTML sussed, not to mention the marquee... you said not to mention the marquee!

Two more things though while you're here; thanks for explaining how to make the tags show, and howdid you see what html had been written in BlueJay's post, when it didn't show up?

Thanks>

Noreen

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 02:53 AM

Noreen,
regarding your 1:02PM post:
<B/Bold><BR> <I/Italics><BR> <U/Unterline><BR> <BIU/Bold Italics, underlined>
The only html tags in that line of yours are the <BR>.
For bold text, enclose the text in <b>your bold text</b>
For italic text, enclose the text in <i>your italic text</i>
For underlined text, enclose the text in <u>your underlined text</u>

You can combine these, for example <b><i>your bold italic text</i></b>

If you wonder why the tags show in my example, i put them in twice. Once normal to get the effect, and once with the < and > replaced by &lt; and &gt;.

MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: BlueJay
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 01:31 PM

OK, Bold
Underline
Italic
Italics underlined

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 01:31 PM

Jay, its less than, B greater than, then the word.

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: BlueJay
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 01:09 PM

Hmmm, nothing happenned at all. Trying to do bold, italics and underline. I'm only guessing, but like for bold, I started with less than, B/ then the word, ending with greater than. Didn't work. Maybe it's

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: BlueJay
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 01:02 PM

Ok, I'm just guessing at most of this:

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Noreen
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 11:03 AM

OK, I know, I'll try again

This is in bold text.
This is in italic text.
This is in bold italic text.
This text is underlined.
This is big text.
This is small text.
This text is big and underlined

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Noreen
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 10:47 AM

This is in bold text.
This is in italic text.
This is in bold italic text.
This text is underlined.
This is big text.
This is small text.
This text is big and underlined.

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 04:01 PM

Jon,
you need to put <br> to the ends of lines even in <tt> sections. The tt tag only tells the browser to use a typewriter font (a non-proportional one). You'd have to use it even in a <pre> section, but this is not due to html but due to the Mudcat input box - all line feeds are stripped from the input.

Noreen, I think I will forgive you, but only if you promise not to do it again!
And if I really can't stand it any longer, I might ask Joe to edit the marquee out of your post.

MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 27 May 00 - 08:25 AM

Noreen, the slash / at the end of an URL indicates that the URL is a directory (= file folder). In that case the webserver looks for a default file in that folder (usually that is index.html).
There is no file folder called thread.cfm?threadid=11671 in the mudcat home folder, so your first two links failed.
In your case, the url points to a file (called thread.cfm) and it gets parameters (threadid=11671).
HTH
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Noreen
Date: 26 May 00 - 05:45 PM

try again

A Heart Needs a Home (Richard Thompson)

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Jed at Work
Date: 18 May 00 - 11:46 AM

first line

• Celtic Samples
• British and US Pop tune Samples
• Folk and Country Blues Samples
• Original Samples

last line

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 25 Apr 00 - 09:12 AM

Jon, I know myself pretty good (for almost 34 years now), that's how I know I am not katlaughing!

TextPad is really good, I use it for some years now (licensed!). There are also some good add-ons on their home-page (e.g. a little program that calls textpad whenever the system wants to open notepad).
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: MudGuard
Date: 13 Apr 00 - 06:58 AM

Which other stuff? Is there any stuff outside the Mudcat Cafe? I can't remember anything else but the Mudcat for the last few years... ;-)
There are some previous threads about Mudcat addiction. Look for them the same way as for the html threads.
cu,
MudGuard

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Apr 00 - 01:40 AM

Jonny, my boy, you are so naughty! (big grin) After all, El Papa Joe will clean this up, right?

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: lloyd64
Date: 13 Apr 00 - 01:06 AM

sorry, What did YOU start?

Will a second line work?

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Mark Clark
Date: 12 Apr 00 - 03:17 PM

Ignore the man behind the curtain. He's just playing.

<a href="http://urlstring">visible text</a>

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 08:42 PM

...and now you're tempting me to learn tables, Tony. I need help bad in the Glossary of Scottish Words thread. John in Brisbane sent it to me as a nice table in a Word document. When I used Word to change it into an HTML file, it came up to over 6 megabytes, far too large to post. Can anybody figure out how to make the glossary into an HTML table that doesn't take up a lot of space?
Feel Free to copy John's glossary and post it again in the same thread. I'll delete all but the best one.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Tony Burns
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 08:32 PM

Oh darn! You've got me blushing Joe. I really have to learn to prof read. Thanks for the correction.

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Mark Clark
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 07:08 PM

Not only that but importing the image causes the MIDI link to be left behind; we don't get to hear what it sounds like.

- Mark

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: Caitrin
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 10:11 PM

Just one question, Threadie...
Why?

Subject: RE: HTML practice thread
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 05:17 PM

Get your homemade cookies at Caitrin's MUDCAT PARK!