Saturday, November 26, 2005

A Brief HTML Tutorial

I was reading a thread at Hit and Run, and one of the commenters was confused about link posting. I tried to post an explanation there, but the moderation on the server wouldn't let it go through. I eventually got fed up and decided to post it here instead. Sometime soon, I'll probably build a page with instructions on some basic HTML code useful for comments.

Jennifer: the idea behind Shawn's post was that if you want to link to http://www.blah.com, you type in <a href="http://www.blah.com">blah</a>.

When Shawn Smith gave his instructions, he used for a placeholder the website address "http://sitetolinkto.com/pagetolinkto.html." Ask and Recieve (is this you?) thought that that was actually what you were supposed to type in inside the brackets, and thus put in the code
<a href="http://sitetolinkto.com/pagetolinkto.html"> http://www.panix.com/~jdw/h+r/all.html</a>. What actually needed to happen was the code <a href="http://www.panix.com/~jdw/h+r/all.html">here's the link</a>, which would produce this link:
here's the link.

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