HTML notes

[Schme]

I know that HTML tags cannot be anymore used, but I've seen that recently some HTML notes have been showing up, and I can see why. They look infinitly better than non HTML notes, and then there's of course the pictures and suchlike.

Anyhow, I have a few things I was going to make into notes. I wrote them in Microsoft Word, and the way they are looking there is a great deal better than they look in the game. There they just look like a mass of text that no one could be bothered to read.

I was wondering if there would be a way I could get some notes on in HTML, perhaps sending it too you guys, or something.

If there is a way, could you please tell me, as it would be much helpful.

Thank you.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

I think you just can't use html in the titles of notes anymore... I know you can use it in the body of the notes... at least some tags that help make notes look nice...

[Cookie]

I think that's what he means.

It would be good if they could allow html not titles. Just remove the ability to have pictures and animated text (thats why they disallowed it i think)

[Lumin]

You can use all the HTML you want in the body of a note, though pictures have to be sent to the staff before being uploaded.

(I'm pretty sure that's what he was asking about. I don't think he'd be typing a title out in MSWord and saying it looks like a big mess of text when pasted in a note...)

[formerly known as hf]

Moved to general support

As far as I know, HTML can be used in notes (but be extra sure to get the formatting right if it gets complicated, else it screws the whole page up)

But not in note titles. Which is a good decision - with HTML in titles, people could post huge images, or totally screw the objects page so nothing below that not loads.

What would be good, would be some form of simple html in note titles- along the lines of BB code - bold, underlined, italics and colour only

[Schme]

It can be used in notes? I hadn't known.


Could someone perhaps direct me to something explaining how it's done? I'm afraid I'm somewhat hopless with computers.


Thanks for telling me though. I'd thought that HTML could not be used whatsoever.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://www.lissaexplains.com/

There's a couple of sites that aren't not so bad at explaining it..

[wulf]

Start with really simple stuff and gradually get a feel for it. For example, how about using <em>...</em> to mark the signature of your character at the end of the note.

Also, because of the built in formatting, you don't need to bother about marking up every paragraph in <p>...</p> tags. Actually, it's better not to because otherwise the system formatting is likely to fight with your hard-coded HTML formatting with ugly results.

As a final thought, even if you develop into an HTML expert, keep your notes relatively simple. Firstly, you don't control the page it is displayed in and future changes to the Cantr stylesheets could make things look skewiff. Also, if you're expecting anybody else to edit your notes, simple HTML is easy to follow but complex markup - tables and the like - will really confuse people.

Wulf

[Chris Johnson]

And don't link to external pictures. If you have a picture or map please send it to pictures@cantr.net so it can be uploaded on to the game server.

You'll then be given a url to use in your notes.

Recently we have had a spate of off-site maps no longer being available

[Schme]

Thank you very much everyone. You've all been most helpful. Thanks a lot.


And not worry. I'm not thinking about any picture. Just trying to center text and suchlike.

[SekoETC]

Speaking of HTML code, I remember seeing somewhere in Reniov forest a note which had a table of two colours. I mean, the border had two colours, highlight and shadow. I think I wrote it down somewhere but I forgot where, so does anyone happen to remember the keywords for that?

Edit: Oh nevermind, I found it on Google but it's only supported by Internet Explorer. Sucky....

[swymir]

HTML is quick to learn. Microsoft Office can do it for you, but I wouldn't trust them any father then I could throw them, divided by a thousand, because I've thrown some Microsoft software pretty far. It does add in a lot of useless crap, and stuff that will complicate things, so you do need to have a little knowledge of the subject to know what to take out.

Your best bet is just to spend a few hours (that's all it really takes) to learn the simple things. Minipulating font size, color, and alignment, pictures, that sort of thing. And then latter you can get to internal links (which is why books are really unneeded), tables, etc.

[wulf]

At the moment, HTML seems pretty unrestricted. You could try something like:

<div style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ff0 #000 #000 #ff0; margin: 0.5em; padding: 0.5em; background-color: #eec; color: #000;">
Your text in here.
</div>

However, do keep in mind:

a) the extra difficulty for someone else to edit it

b) the chance of browser incompability if you get too fancy

c) the chance that all your hard work will be wasted because people abuse HTML notes and the allowed range of tags is cut down.

Wulf

[formerly known as hf]

Generally I've picked up extra things as and when I've needed them.

As a rule, if a note is planned to be edited by other characters in general, I leave out all HTML

[Agar]

I have a html note I found in cantr. It's a grid of radio buttons, and you have a timer. One radio button is clicked. Click on it and it changes to another random button. Click as many as you can in the time allowed.

What in Jos's name is that game doing in cantr?