HOWTO: HTML in Forum Postings

We intend to allow image posts into all forums – for now, we are testing this feature in a Forum entitled “Photo Gallery” which is found in the CAMPFIRE Forum Group.

To post an image, use this HTML syntax:

<img src=”http://www.mywebsite.com/myimage.jpg”&gt;

Be sure to use a full URL where your image is located.

Enjoy!

Please see above for info on how to link to an image. Images can now be included with posts in all forums.

Ok been a while but what is the code for inserting a url into a forum. In the old days this would work

Name of the site

am I making a bracket error.

<url=http://www.yoursite.com]name of the site[/url>

I haven’t tried this myself, but above it says the tag is supported. If that is the case, then to insert a URL, you would use the syntax.

HTML
a href=”http://www.ahfb2000.com”>HTML

The answer is to use the a href tag

General NOTE: in order to have the actual HTML text of “mark-ups” be visible in Posts, omit the opening “angle-bracket” (so called by computer geeks, “less than” symbol for you math majors and engineers). please be sure to add the appropriate angle-bracket before AND after the HTML begin anchor markup (the letter ‘a’ – w/o the single -quotes) and end anchor mark-up (ibid) in order to have the mark-up produce its desired effect.

more specifically:

for those not familiar with HTML mark-up syntax, Bob, presumably, left out the beginning/opening angle-bracket of the ANCHOR in order to get the “mark-up” text to display in his Post. otherwise, only the letters “HTML” would have displayed and NOT the mark-up syntax he was trying to communicate/teach.

other neat options are available within the anchor syntax for controlling fonts and color. just search the web for “html tutorial” and you will get hits that will lead you to a complete explanation of the ANCHOR mark-up.

also the “HTML” at the end of Bob’s anchor mark-up is the text that is presented to the human in the browser, i.e. what the reader actually sees. so, you can put in whatever you want. if the anchor is a link to a photo of GVP in a SpinnShelter, the “HTML” in Bob’s Post would be replaced with “GVP in SpinnShelter”.

typically, the anchor mark-up should have an end anchor mark-up after the text that the human can read. so, in Bob’s example the mark-up would end with a “less-than” symbol, then the forward slash character, followed by the letter ‘a’ (w/o the sng-quotes) and finally a greater than symbol. had i actually typed this sequence of four characters, they would NOT have displayed in my Post.

a good way to see this type of mark-up “in action”, so to speak, is to select the “View Source” or “View Page Source” menu choice in your browser. then just search the HTML source “code” for the ANCHOR mark-up text. you will then see the actual “mark-up” that produced the effect seen when the web page loads into the browser window.

hope this makes it a little clearer. if i’ve “muddied the waters” for anyone, my apolgies.

[to BPL staff – feel free to delete this Post if you feel that it adds no value. don’t worry, it won’t hurt my feelings if you delete it, or edit it to make it clearer to your readers. many thanks, pj]

The opening bracket does not appear in bob’s post above, although he did enter it, because html was not turned on for the forum admin/support forum, and the forum text filtering routing did something weird!

Otherwise, for the rest of the forum, tag syntax should be normal html with both brackets.

The following HTML tags are allowed in forum posts:

big
small
br
a
b
u
p
i
em
strong
tt
blockquote
ul
ol
li
dl
dt
dd
cite
sub
sup
code

Is this still the correct list, or has the list changed?

Thanks,
MV