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Html tag quick reference?

 
 
Trijhaos
22:37 / 26.03.02
Is there a good site that lists useful tags for things like apostrophes? I've found a bunch of sites that have lists, but all the useful codes are spread all over the place. I'm looking for a nice concise one that I can print out.
 
 
Mikaël
03:45 / 27.03.02
http://www.allhtml.com/html/html7.php

http://www.allhtml.com/html/html6.php

£ § ± €
This ?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:13 / 30.03.02
Or this?

Complete list of HTML commands
 
 
Thjatsi
01:39 / 28.04.02
test
 
 
SMS
05:16 / 01.05.02
Is it possible to use any other alphabets? I think some of the magic forums might occasionally (not often at all, but right now) benefit from being able to type ou hebrew letters.
 
 
grant
14:20 / 01.05.02
I think you might have to find the letters as gifs or jpgs on the web, which shouldn't be too hard. (a la the Futhark threads)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:36 / 10.05.02
Hokay. Any poor bastard unfortunate enough to bugger up their HTML is getting patronized to death. They will find this in their PMs:-


Hiya,

I noticed you were having some probs with your HTML code, and I thought this might help.


<b>Whatever you want in bold type</b>
Creates bold text
<i>Whatever you want in italics</i>
Creates italic text

<a href="http://www.whatever the URL of the website is">Whatever you're calling the link</a>
Makes a link

<img src="http://www.Whatever the URL of the image is">
Inserts an image in your post

NB: Some sites, especially free websites such as Geocities, don't allow you to do this. You may have to buy web space or use a free image hosting service.

If your image is large, then you can make it fit on the page by inserting width="500" into the code, like this:-

<img src="http://www.Whatever the URL of the image is" width="500">

Webmonkey is a useful resource. It has a searchable database and a cheat-sheet detailing commonly used HTML tags, although not all the tags work on the 'Lith.


Yep, I know most of them will already know this stuff, but fuck it- serve'em right for not reading the Policy.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:40 / 10.05.02
Oh yeah- Webmonkey also has this page of character codes.

Mmm. Printy.
 
 
SMS
02:26 / 07.06.02
Mordant, how did you get the text "Whatever you want in bold type" to NOT be in bold, even though you had the symbols around it?

{/}
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:23 / 07.06.02
I used the character codes from the link above. For example, &lt; and &gt; are the codes for < and > .
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:07 / 03.07.02
Bump, because it's useful.
 
 
w1rebaby
11:21 / 03.07.02
We really really do need an FAQ page for this.

I'll write one if people want.
 
 
Ganesh
14:55 / 21.12.06
Apologies for bringing out the dead, but I'm irritated at myself for being unable to find the html for what I want to do, either within or outside Barbelith. I know there's a variant of 'a href=' that opens my hypertext link in a new page. What is it?
 
 
grant
15:14 / 21.12.06
a href="www.addresshere.com" target="_BLANK"

the _BLANK target will open in a new tab in the latest version of Firefox, which is convenient.
 
 
&#9632;
19:27 / 22.12.06
Just a note on "foreign" characters as mentioned above. Unless they are in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set (which Barbelith explicitly sets invisibly at the top of every page), they are unlikely to display properly on most browsers. I think it might be possible to do explicit charset within a post, but it's beyond me.
 
 
Ganesh
19:45 / 22.12.06
Grant, I don't understand. What's "target" and what's "BLANK" and do the three sets of "s work okay in the first part?

Could you give an example?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:08 / 23.12.06
Basically, "target" is a tag which affects browser behaviour. So, target="_blank" tells the browser to open the link you click on in a new window (or tab, depending on browser and settings), so, say:

[angle bracket]a href="http://www.plasticbag.org" target="_blank"[ close angle bracket]This link[angle bracket]/a[close angle bracket]

Would open plasticbag.org, in a new window.

Like this.

Personally, I don't like target tags - they impose artifical conditions on browser behaviour not set by the user, who otherwise has the option of opening links in the same window or a new one according to their taste. However, that's a position that becomes less relevant now that processors are so insanely fast that you could open about two thousand windows at a time without causing problems.
 
 
Slate
13:03 / 23.12.06
Is it possible to put a hyperlink within a topic summary? I was going to try and see, but thought I would ask first, might save some mod having to delete an ugly mess if it didn't work out?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:15 / 23.12.06
No, I don't think so. HTML doesn't work in summaries or titles. Best put it in the body text.
 
  
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