Reply To: The Laboratory II – Try Your HTML & ASCII Art Experiments Here

teen-

“…i am completly lost…i am just realizing how little i really know..”

The concept is actually pretty simple. You put a tag at the beginning of some text, telling the browser how you want it displayed (e.g. green), and then a closing tag at the end to delimit where you want the font, color, URL, etc. to stop.

“i have saved it on my desktop and opened it in a web browser….now what all i see is the code in a gray box…what do i do next?”

– I’m not sure what the problem is, since I am able to open it in Firefox, IE6 and IE8 on two different machines. Is it possible your browser has scripting turned off, or you are getting a security warning due to the JavaScript function in the code?

RoshYeshivah-

“does that mean that only what’s on the bottom of the page will work-a blockquote code etc… ?”

– Yes, exactly.

The code I pasted on the prior page for cut-and-pasting to create a test HTML page is a little odd because of some substitutions I assume the site software did.

It also has atleast one syntax error on my part – the second <U> tag should actually be a closing </U>.

None of the things are stopping it from working as I expected it to.

Did anyone else try it? What were your results?