Character entities in POP Forums...
Tonight someone asked how to make pretty links, and I tried to explain how to do it.
Then I found out that there doesn't seem to be any reliable way to insert the necessary square bracket characters in printable form.
Is there a character entity for that which the forum understands (kind of like "<" to display "<")? I tried using &091; but that didn't work...
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
/X\ _ *** Respect rides. They do not respect you. ***
/XXX\ /X\ /X\_ _ /X\__ _ _ _____
/XXXXX\ /XXX\ /XXXX\_ /X\ /XXXXX\ /X\ /X\ /XXXXX
_/XXXXXXX\__/XXXXX\/XXXXXXXX\_/XXX\_/XXXXXXX\__/XXX\_/XXX\_/\_/XXXXXX
Being a fringe case, I'm not really going to worry about it, but anything not a complete recognized tag won't be parsed as such. You can do what everyone else does and add spaces inside the bracket, and not, "remove the spaces."
Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog
Fringe case indeed; how many years has this forum been up and that's maybe the second time I've run into it... :)
...Ohhhhhhh....
Never mind. I just figured out why it didn't work. User error. I gotta go hit the books again.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
/X\ _ *** Respect rides. They do not respect you. ***
/XXX\ /X\ /X\_ _ /X\__ _ _ _____
/XXXXX\ /XXX\ /XXXX\_ /X\ /XXXXX\ /X\ /X\ /XXXXX
_/XXXXXXX\__/XXXXX\/XXXXXXXX\_/XXX\_/XXXXXXX\__/XXX\_/XXX\_/\_/XXXXXX
The forum is for the 99.99% of people who don't know or care about HTML. Trust me, I get into debates about what's really important on a daily basis (and you can imagine what a struggle that is working at a company that spends a lot of time on software features that no one uses).
Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog
Oh. Shiny demoware. The really cool feature that nobody EVER needs but that looks great in a demo gets its own button on the toolbar, while some utterly mundane feature that everybody needs ten times an hour is buried three menus deep and protected with two "Are you sure?" dialogs. Apple, Avid, Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft...they're all guilty of it. Keep fighting the good fight. Sales types may hate you for it but it's better for the users.
(Notice I wasn't looking for a feature,m but a howto. The feature is there, I just had my syntax screwed up. Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do.)
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
/X\ _ *** Respect rides. They do not respect you. ***
/XXX\ /X\ /X\_ _ /X\__ _ _ _____
/XXXXX\ /XXX\ /XXXX\_ /X\ /XXXXX\ /X\ /X\ /XXXXX
_/XXXXXXX\__/XXXXX\/XXXXXXXX\_/XXX\_/XXXXXXX\__/XXX\_/XXX\_/\_/XXXXXX
I was a part of that conversation. I'm not a computer geek in any way at all. I know just a few basic things that I've learned online. When something comes up that I really want to do, or remember how to do, I go to http://www.w3schools.com/ . It takes me a while to figure it out, because I don't do it but once every week or so.
-Travis
www.youtube.com/TSVisits
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