joycel
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posted on July 17, 2001 07:22:06 AM
I know there must be a way to break my auction description down into paragraphs. Can someone give me easy to understand instructions? Thanks
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Triggerfish
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posted on July 17, 2001 07:23:45 AM
Just type <p> before each paragraph break.
[ edited by Triggerfish on Jul 17, 2001 07:25 AM ]
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joycel
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posted on July 17, 2001 07:32:10 AM
Thanks! Had to list 3 how-to books in one auction this morning, and my description was getting awfully wordy-looking without paragraphs.
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Triggerfish
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posted on July 17, 2001 07:36:40 AM
Yeah, it's funny, when I was first writing auctions I didn't know ANYTHING about that stuff and I kept breaking my paragraphs then when I looked at the finished product the words all went together. Couldn't (DUH!) figure it out til a computer friend told me about it.
Here's another one. To just change lines it's <br>.
Then there's bold <b>your word or words</b>
and the same thing for -
underline <u> and </u>
italicize <i> and </i>
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mcjane
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posted on July 17, 2001 08:52:40 AM
Joycel, add color too by doing this:
<font color=navy>(can also use red, green, aqua etc in place of navy)
and to center your discription do this:
<center>
Anyone know where joycel can go to find more colors?
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BlondeSense
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posted on July 17, 2001 08:53:09 AM
Here is an ebay site that has more stuff on it.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sellerguide/selling-html.html
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 17, 2001 09:02:40 AM
Just type <p> before each paragraph break.
<p>This is a paragraph</p>.
Most tags have ending tags.
The W3 is advocating xhtml right now. It is a bridge to xml which will probably be the future of web markup. xhtml and xml allow NO deviance from the prescribed DTD. Pages just won't display.
arttsupplies (webmaster)
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Triggerfish
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posted on July 17, 2001 09:04:26 AM
http://gotomy.com/color.html
This color chart rocks!
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 17, 2001 09:19:06 AM
This color chart rocks!
Thats a very cool page. Worth bookmarking if your application doesn't have a websafe pallete to look through.
Being really nitpicky though (I haven't started work yet, I'm still waking up  )...
In the future ALL tags and attributes need to be lowercase and attributes "quoted".
<font color="#cc0000">Red Word</font>.
Browsers clean up everyone's mistakes now but won't be forgiving in the future.
If anyone want's to go digging at the official source of this.
http://www.w3.org/
arttsupplies (webmaster)
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BlondeSense
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posted on July 17, 2001 09:39:13 AM
Browsers clean up everyone's mistakes now but won't be forgiving in the future.
Except Netscape. I use Netscape and every so often I'll come across an auction that will not show anything past the description bar because someone has forgotten to close a tag. If it's something I'm really interested in I have to switch to IE to see it.
[ edited by BlondeSense on Jul 17, 2001 09:40 AM ]
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 17, 2001 10:00:49 AM
Except Netscape.
true. I'm a die hard Mac user and Nav 4.7x almost made me cry. I actually switched to IE 5.0 for awhile. I've repented though and at home use icab, Nav 6.1 and/or Mozilla 0.9.2.
arttsupplies (webmaster)
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Triggerfish
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posted on July 17, 2001 10:07:45 AM
HUH? Anyway, I use that color chart all the time without any problem or hassle. Don't have to add anything in beyond the color code. ??
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engelskdansk
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posted on July 17, 2001 10:14:55 AM
arttsupplies. According to the link you mentioned, I found the following:
The color names are case-insensitive.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.5
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 17, 2001 12:01:10 PM
I said:
In the future ALL tags and attributes need to be lowercase and attributes "quoted".
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/#docconf
Relevant portion:
4.2 Element and attribute names must be in lower case
XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is case-sensitive e.g. <li> and <LI> are different tags.
I don't want to make anyone's head spin. When xhtml and then xml get fully implemented there will WYSIWYG editors out there to do the work for you. I write markup by hand with BBEdit so I need to know this stuff. Not for the simple tables I create for my employer's auctions but for my personal and freelance web developement.
arttsupplies (webmaster)
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kudzurose
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posted on July 17, 2001 12:48:46 PM
arttsupplies - thanks for posting that information!
Here is another site that is good, not just for colors -
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6446/html.html
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 17, 2001 01:39:29 PM
Here is another site that is good, not just for colors -
Looks like a nice comprehensive site
I didn't want to scare anyone about the future of web markup, I'm just kind of a geek and like to know exactly what's going on. It'll take quite a while to be so rigid and by then the apps will have caught up.
I've learned in classes and a lot more with a book in my lap in front of the computer.
A book from O'Reilly that is my bible for the web...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html4/
Another VERY good book that is more user friendly...
http://www.peachpit.com/books/catalog/K5950.html
arttsupplies (webmaster)
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