The essence of what is here I learned some while back
from an online site I am grateful to but do not recall,
and have not been able to track down. However, this:
See information above my name below.
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The primary HTML tags to know are these three:
PRE / FONT / P
which must be used in this order before a post
and in the OPPOSITE order after a post. Each
of these needs to be < > enclosed. However,
the FONT tag requires more defining input. On
this post I am presently defining FONT this way:
FONT FACE="Verdana" COLOR="#006600" SIZE="2"
but I am not getting the result I want. The
learning process I am into here is going to
take longer than I expected. New environments
force one to wire/ new ways of seeing. That's
fine. This is not the first time I have been
so challenged. Hello!: when I clicked the Compose
tab I discovered I was getting what I requested,
but that this environment requires such requests
to be coded in a different way. Here I need to use
span (you will see the details upon clicking Edit Html)
wherein span replaces font as a major tag; or I
can still put it in as originally shown, and let the
Compose tab translate it to this environment's
code system. I suggest using the after-the-or choice
and not using Compose until a post's content is right.
Unless there is a need reason not to, I also suggest
using Verdana with its size set at 2. If Compose has
already been utilized, set Verdana's size at 100%.
Courier New is a font which allots equal space to each
character, making it a need reason not to use Verdana
under certain conditions; but the nearest choice in
this environment is Courier. I have not yet checked
to see if it allots equal space to each character.
[27JUN07 - Since writing the above about Courier, I
tested it on this blog's Directory post, and it appears
to space as Courier New does. Below is a link to the
Directory.]
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It is best to place both the needed major
before tags and after tags on your post first.
Put the opening tags on one line and the
closing tags on the second or third line.
The after tags must be preceded by a /
since this symbol indicates end of tag use.
<> body of post <>
is a fake example. Commonly, no space occurs
between the <> and the tag or slant/tag within.
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Although it is not doing here all I hoped it
would, the importance of the PRE tag (it has
been my experience elsewhere) is that it
keeps text placed where the person inputing
that text wants it to be. This is especially
useful when presenting poems in which there
are
indented lines.
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[27JUN07 -
Various available fonts, font colors, font sizes
can be used on the same page; but not without
first ending the font in use before inserting
the needed code change(s). My present thinking
is: Pages in this environment which are likely
to be frequently changed should be kept in HTML,
if HTML is being used to construct them. The
Compose tab should be left unused.]
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Try these searches:
lookup tables
HTML colors rgb
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See directory2007 in Catmap.
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Brian A. J. Salchert
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Rho00003
