An unexpected character edited James's tail. Film at 11
An unexpected type O cut off the last part of HS 9-1 leaving poor James minus a part of his tail [story] I could not sus out what happened to prevent the rest of the story to copy over to BCTS until I discovered an extra character a sideways v had stuck its self into the body of the story right where the missing part began. Removed the mark which in HTML must mean cut here and wonders of wonders the rest of the story appeared.
I am so sorry to the readers who missed out but if you are interested in the rest of the story please reread the last bit.
Huggles
Michele
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Less-than < and Greater-than > are the two symbols which identify HTML commands to your browser or word-processor.
Each Less-than must have a matching Greater-than to balance it. Anything between those (and the symbols themselves) is removed from the text and treated as a command, like BOLD or FONT or almost anything.
Looks like you somehow managed to delete one or the other and it completely confused the system. That's why, very occasionally, you get weird things happen on the front page: italics continuing all the way down, for example, or a font change.
HTML is a fun subject but it follows some very simple rules. Easy to follow, easy to screw up.
Penny
So..... ???
>i< ..:::
Is This OK? *points up*
I use it as my personal emblem & short siggy.
It stand fora a little pixie(me) trailing pixie dust.
I usually only use it at the very end of a post.
Is there a way to force it to show as text only?
Tricky...
If you put those characters in the actual text file then they will be used as delimiters to HTML control code.
What you probably did - and what I did in my original comment - was to use the icons above the edit box to insert the appropriate values. Naturally, If < and > are used as coding constructs you have to have a way to put those in the text, like a whole load of other weird characters.
In HTML this is done by 'describing' the characters. First you have an ampersand (which I'm writing out since the system will swallow it) followed by a code, then a semi-colon to tell the system that's the end of the code.
So a < is < and a > is > - and I had to jump some hoops to get those to display like that! Naturally the ampersand itself has to be escaped and this is done with the code &.
I have also used « («) and » (») in SEE #110 to represent speech in other languages. There are many of these covering things like currency and copyright symbols, etc. This means that wherever you are, whatever font you're using, the most appropriate symbol will be used when the text is displayed. [And you can use them to make pictures!]
Penny