Category: Zone BBS Q&A
While HTML is normally not case sensative, the Zone requires all tags be in lower case (at least for the moment). All tags are terminated by the </tag> delimiter. For example: The anchor tag (used primarily to create links) is opened with <a> and terminated with </a>. All tag parameters are included within the opening tag, such as <a href="[protocol][url]">, href="[protocol][url]" is a parameter telling the anchor tag what to link to. The parameters discussed below follow the parameter=setting format, as evidenced by the href parameter.
Wow, great lesson on HTML! Where did this come from? Use < a > and < /a > (along with the href, name, and accesskey parameters.)
This is great, I wish I had had this when I was first learning html, would have saved me many hours of guesswork.
Many thanks.
Bob
This is quite cool. I think we should send it over to the knowledge base.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Bob
I'm very impressed.
Good Lord, Kai, this is truly awesome!
Impressive Wraith, good post. However, is everything else supposed to be like well underlined beneath your posting though? Not meaning to criticize or anything, I just noticed it while reading through the rest of the postings.
But yeah I wish I had this long ago, I may still paste this somewhere and print it out anyhow. thanks.
If you all want a great tutorial on HTML the best place to go where you can get examples, tutorials and a place to work on your html:
W3schools HTML Tutorial
The site has tutorials on javascript, css, DHTML, etc. It's very useful and I recommend this to everyone I know who wants to learn html.
W3Schools's Start Page
Ah, much better, when you use underline, italics or bold tags, please close them out as it's annoying to see a tag for the entire page.
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Ok so the site doesn't suport text areas, this is why I recommened the tutorial websites..... Because you'll get tutorials, but examples of how tags and code should look like. Then at the end of each lesson a example of how it looks in real time via the Tryit Editor.
I agree, the w3 schools is one of the best sites I've ever seen. It's as simple or as complicated as you like.
Bob
Ah, maybe we should set it up so that bold, italic, underline, etc. would be turned off at the end of each post just in case.
w3schools also has scripts to try out too. It depends on the person and what they like and don't like. I find the website very useful, in fact I use their try it editor instead of doing it in note pad. And once you're content on what you've done, you can go into the preview pane, right click and view the source code to notepad to save as a document for later reference.
Admin, that's a really good idea. I wonder how difficult it would be to get the <pre> command to work, turning that one off at the end too. It would make the explanation of html code much easier rather than using the & codes.
TheLion, I too like the try it editor in w3 schools, though I really haven't looked at their scripts yet.
Bob
The zone's home page. The "accesskey" attribute of the '<a' tag is supported here, too.
Ya, you're right about pre. I did add blockquote and div as available HTML in board posts and profiles.
ok, ever since this is an html board, here is my first html tag.
here is a link to
the blade
hope this works.
It worked on my system.
Good going.
Bob
thanks.
even though the blade is down a lot i still like to run it. i'm glad that link worked. yaaaaa. cool.
I'd love to know how the quicknote area is made and works
The QN area works due to the following tags in use:
And now, I shall tell you how the QN character limit is enforced.
There's a lot more to the Quicknote area than that, because it has to interface with an SQL database somehow. That's PHP and MySQL, which is beyond the scope of this board, and my knowledge.
I don't even know PHP or MySQL. I'm sure JJ and Chris N know it, though.
</a href="ftp.newaol.com"> AOL FTP site</a
Ok let me try
Yahoo
The person who posted in Post 28 didn't use the correct format. It is < a href="[protocol]://[url]" > [text of link] < /a >
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