HTML Sandbox 2008

n/a | 5/31/08 | me

[potlatch]

LOL, and you just proved that you DO see my ‘unaddressed’ comments.........!!

Snicker!

80% looks better and then I forgot to change my html from 100% when I actually posted it!

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I started at the top - the most recent posts

[potlatch]

Excuses, excuses, heh!!
Gotta run to the store, be back soon.

[sig226]

What does one of these actually look like?

Since I post the Astronomy Picture of the Day thread, I believe that I would not be stepping on anyone's toes if I used one of the threads to illustrate how an HTML post is created. There is also the shameless self promotion aspect of it, but what the hell . . .

Here's the source code for today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each item is explained in italics.
<center> Centers what follows.
<a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/ISS_STS124_michelberger.jpg"> Creates a link.
<img src="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/ISS_STS124_michelberger_lab.jpg""height=597""width=800"> Posts an image.
</img> Closes the image.
</a> Closes the link.
<br> Adds a line break.
<b>Chasing the ISS<br> Changes the font to bold and adds a line break.
Credit & Copyright:</b> Jürgen Michelberger Closes the bold font.
</center> Closes the centering function.
<p> Inserts a paragraph break.
<b>Explanation:</b> "Explanation" will appear in the bold font.
Bathed in sunlight, the International Space Station (ISS) arced through the evening sky above the town of Lauffen in southern Germany on May 31st. The timing of the bright passage was about 10 minutes after the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-124 mission from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the southeastern US. Of course, Discovery was headed toward an orbital rendezvous with the ISS. In chasing after the space station, the shuttle also made a pass over Lauffen just 21 minutes after launch. With a camera fixed to a tripod, astronomer Jürgen Michelberger recorded both magnificent machines streaking overhead in two different time exposures, each about 2 minutes long, and merged them in this composite view. Parallax causes the paths of the ISS (right) and Discovery (near center) to seem to diverge as they were at very different altitudes. Stars (and bright planets) leave two, separated, short trails. The brief, flaring track of an Iridium satellite and faint dotted trail of a passing airplane are also visible. A close inspection will reveal a dim reddish track, the jettisoned external fuel tank, just left of Discovery. Placing your cursor over the picture should help identify some of the features.

It looks like this:

Chasing the ISS
Credit & Copyright: Jürgen Michelberger

Explanation: Bathed in sunlight, the International Space Station (ISS) arced through the evening sky above the town of Lauffen in southern Germany on May 31st. The timing of the bright passage was about 10 minutes after the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-124 mission from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the southeastern US. Of course, Discovery was headed toward an orbital rendezvous with the ISS. In chasing after the space station, the shuttle also made a pass over Lauffen just 21 minutes after launch. With a camera fixed to a tripod, astronomer Jürgen Michelberger recorded both magnificent machines streaking overhead in two different time exposures, each about 2 minutes long, and merged them in this composite view. Parallax causes the paths of the ISS (right) and Discovery (near center) to seem to diverge as they were at very different altitudes. Stars (and bright planets) leave two, separated, short trails. The brief, flaring track of an Iridium satellite and faint dotted trail of a passing airplane are also visible. A close inspection will reveal a dim reddish track, the jettisoned external fuel tank, just left of Discovery. Placing your cursor over the picture should help identify some of the features.

It's posted here.

[sig226]

What are you trying to do to the list? I like the border and the colors, but my personal taste leans toward the table format. I'd try something like this:

Dirtbag	Means of assistance	Reason he hates America
William Ayers	friend	1960s mental case
Frank Davis	Mentor	Communist

[potlatch]

What are you trying to do to the list? I like the border and the colors, but my personal taste leans toward the table format. I'd try something like this...

What you suggest would certainly look nice but certain 'table data' boxes would have much more material, thus expanding the total length of the post.

I wanted to double space each item but it would also have been twice as long that way and it was already huge.

Take a look at my Profile page..I'm familiar with html.

 

Dirtbag	Means of assistance	Reason he hates America
William Ayers	friend	1960s mental case
George Soros [slumlord undergoing trial]	Supporter	Son, Jonathan Soros, an attorney and finanier, recently promoted to deputy manager of Soros Fund Management, is personally involved with Move On. org's activities.
POTLATCH	GIFMAKER	WONDERFUL, FABULOUS, EXTRAORDINARY, SUPERCALIFRAGILISTEXPEALIDOCIOUS, CAN'T REPEAT IT ENOUGH, OVER AND OVER AND OVER, SNICKER, SNORT, CHOKE, GASP, LOL

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LOL!

Well done potlatch!

[potlatch]

Lol, thanks. Colorful, huh?

[potlatch]

All that and I misspelled SUPER-CALI-FRAGILE-ISTIC-X-P-ALI-DOCIOUS.

Should look it up.

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Nice - goood colors - yes

I’m no great shakes at tables -

But I can make tables magical with animated mixed graphics

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Mary Poppins...

[potlatch]

[But I can make tables magical with animated mixed graphics]

You certainly do that very well too!!

Mary Poppins knows how to spell that word I messed up!

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Chim-Chiminey-Cheroooooooooo!

[potlatch]

Ahhhh Chooo! We are messing up another thread you know. Unless there’s hidden html in that!

[sig226]

I don’t think it would be excessively long if you put spaces in it. The chart is shorter than the one in your profile. What if you adjusted the cellpadding and cellspacing? You could get a partial break between the lines that way.

[potlatch]

By ruler, that post of mine measures about 16 inches deep at 80% width. Double spacing would increase it a lot.

My profile doesn’t have a large ‘table chart’ on it.

[sig226]

I should add that you can run the list as a table, center align all the data, and have one item of data for each row. I won't use your background, but is this something like what you wanted?

OBAMA’S SUPPORTERS READ LIKE A LIST OF WHO’S WHO AMONG RACISTS, THUGS,
MUSLIMS, MARXIST AND AMERICAN HATERS OF THE WORLD.

>William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist)

Frank Davis (Member Communist Party USA, Early mentor to Obama)

>Jeremiah Wright (Black Liberation militant, racist, and Pastor)

Tony Rezko (Corrupt Financier, ties to Terror Financing)

>Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam Leader, racist, anti-American)

Raila Ordinga (Fundamental Islamic Candidate, Kenya, Obama’s Cousin)

This was cellspacing=4, cellpadding=3.

[sig226]

The alignment didn’t stick. Nertz.

[webschooner]

How to make a box to enclose text?

[sig226]

I missed the <center> tag.

OBAMA’S SUPPORTERS READ LIKE A LIST OF WHO’S WHO AMONG RACISTS, THUGS,
MUSLIMS, MARXIST AND AMERICAN HATERS OF THE WORLD.

>William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist)

Frank Davis (Member Communist Party USA, Early mentor to Obama)

>Jeremiah Wright (Black Liberation militant, racist, and Pastor)

Tony Rezko (Corrupt Financier, ties to Terror Financing)

>Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam Leader, racist, anti-American)

Raila Ordinga (Fundamental Islamic Candidate, Kenya, Obama’s Cousin)