HTML compatability

[Adder]

I haven't really cared until now, but I'm thinking of opening a new thred and I'd like to know:

Does this forum suport HTML script?


If it doesn't, could someone please tell me how to:

• Align text
• Inert images (not attatch, I'd like people to be able to view them all from the page)
• Alter colour (like in death's signature, shifting from blue to darkblue)

[Alcar]

HTML is allowed, but I would suggest using XHTML. As soon as we upgrade to vB3, everything will be in XHTML compliance, and we will need to somehow make posts / signatures / etc the same.

Very simple though.

Alcar...

[Adder]

Um... anyone got "XHTML for Dummies"

Thankz for the info., Alcar. ^.^

[Joshy]

Inert images (not attatch, I'd like people to be able to view them all from the page)


Use the IMG tag code, [IMG] and close it by [/IMG]


Alter colour (like in death's signature, shifting from blue to darkblue)

I dont really know, i think you have to add the ACSII code before it or something.

[LuLu_Fund]

For an idiot like moi:

What's the difference between html and xhtml? Are code-taggings different? Easy to pick up??

[Alcar]

The differences are very small, but it allows for websites to become properly scripted. As it stands at the moment, most websites are scripted very poorly. The current Oddworld Universe is an example of one website poorly scripted in HTML.

XHTML is a stricter HTML scripting language. The differences often include things like ending tags for one tag HTML tags. Like:

HTML	XHTML
<img src="blah.jpg" alt="This is an image of blahness">	<img src="blah.jpg" alt="blah.jpg" title="This is an image of blahness" />
<hr>	<hr />

There are a few more things, but I can't remember them at the moment... Yet I can when I script XHTML...

I suggest you visit this website and read all of the XHTML sections: http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp

Alcar...

[Cloverfield]

Originally posted by Adder
Alter colour (like in death's signature, shifting from blue to darkblue)

The long way would be trying to determine which HEX code you want for each letter and coding it in HTML.

The short way is to use a little program to do it. I used to have one which you put in the text you wanted and the colors you wanted to start and end, and it would automatically generate the HTML for you. You could then post that into your signature. But I have mis-placed the program.

Abe Babe...

[Wil]

There's the Rainbow Text Maker on the Internet, credit to Anna for the link; but I searched quickly on Google and found this. I'll certainly be downloading it to try, hope it helps.

EDIT: Yay! The links are broken. Ditch that, then.

As it stands at the moment, most websites are scripted very poorly. The current Oddworld Universe is an example of one website poorly scripted in HTML.

XHTML is a stricter HTML scripting language. The differences often include things like ending tags for one tag HTML tags.

I always do that, plus I always use lower-cases in my tags, definitions and what-have-yous. Also you can't just have attributes on their own, such as 'nohref', they need to have a definition, in this case nohref="nohref". There's not much more to XHTML than that, besides all the legalise and that thingy at the top of the script, is there?