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JennGM
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Posted: Feb 14 2005 at 9:09pm \| IP Logged

I had a dickens of a time posting tonight. I had a Word document, but after seeing Alice's Easter Vigil Notebook, I was hesitant in posting. If I'm familiar with regular HTML coding, can I use that instead?

I couldn't make the indent work for the life of me. Actually, none of the formatting buttoms above worked for me. Did I do something wrong?

Jenn M in VA

theNetSmith
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Posted: Feb 15 2005 at 9:34am \| IP Logged

Jenn-

for security reasons, the forum prevents you from using pure HTML in your posts, but there are forum codes (also known as UBB code) available to provide some basic formatting options. to see those options when you are editing a post, click on the "Forum Codes" link below the post-editing text area to open this 'cheat sheet'.

if the formatting buttons aren't working for you, then you probably have JavaScript turned off in your browser settings. are you using IE?

-Tim

JennGM
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Posted: Feb 15 2005 at 10:22am \| IP Logged

I'm sorry, I did read that about the HTML codes later after I posted. I am using IE, but the Java security is on medium security. The settings aren't off that I can see. Most things are set on "prompt".

Here are my problems. I pasted a whole document into the reply section, and of course lost all my formatting. Using the buttons pulls up a script window, and from there, I've lost it. Do I have to type up the whole phrase, or cut and paste an entire paragraph is I want it bulleted? What about bolding or italicizing -- do i have to reenter the text, if it's already in the window? What happens to the text I already have?

Now, as far as forum codes, do you have the codes to hard-code bulleted items and blockquotes (indented paragraphs)? I've been hard coding stuff with HTML for years, and it's a hard habit to break. Are the codes case sensitive, or can I enter [b] for [B]?

Sorry for all the questions. This is harder to do when posting files (I know that's the moderator's job, though), but I thought I could make it easier if passing on a file. I guess the best thing would be to type it up in .txt form with the hard forum codes.

Thanks.

Jenn

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Posted: Feb 15 2005 at 11:22am \| IP Logged

Jenn-

since you have experience with HTML, you understand the reasoning behind the limitations. granted, 99.95% of the members of this forum would never do anything malicious, but forum registration is fairly wide open. in addition, limiting the formatting options makes for a more uniform appearance on the whole.

anyway, back to your issues...

when you are typing a post, change the "Mode:" dropdown from "Prompt" to "Basic". afterward, clicking on any of the formatting buttons will insert the corresponding UBB tags at the end of your text for direct editing (IMHO, a less-confusing method than presenting you with the "script windows" that you saw before).

UBB is so similar to basic HTML that you will have little difficulty in adjusting. for the most part, just swap your < and > for [ and ]. fonts, URLs, images and lists require a little more effort, but are still very straightforward.

regarding documents that you have already spent considerable time formatting in Word, the best solution would be e-mailing them to the appropriate forum moderator and asking nicely to have them uploaded.

let me know if you still have issues/concerns. also, feel free to propose modifications to the way the posts are made.

-Tim

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