html??

sfnum8

I am making a "link to us" page for my site and I want to put the code so that they can copy and paste the html coding for a banner link to their site how do i keep the coding from showing up as a banner link on my page.

Thanks
http://www.mansfieldareadirectory.com

tntcheats

<a href=“[url]http://www.url.com”>NAME<&rt;[/url]
=
<a href="[url]http://www.url.com">NAME</a>[/url]

< = <
“ = “
” = ” 
> = >

Now let's just see if the board renders this right

CannonBallGuy

or you could put the code in a text area which lots of people do...
But tnt's way is better.

Python

well if i was doing it id place it in a text area. it then seperates it from the rest of the site and makes it stand out a bit

CoreyBryant

I would agree with Python - usually the text area is best becuase if they copy it from the webpage & try to paste it into some WYSIWYG editors without converting it to text, it can be rendered incorrectly. Placing it into a text area helps to prevent this. There are still a lot of people that use WYSIWYG editors & do not understand they usually need to do this.

CannonBallGuy

Why would you be copying html into a wysiwyg?

CoreyBryant

Well a WYSIWYG editor has an HTML view - that is what I meant. I have seen a lot of people who are new & use a WYSIWYG editor do not understand why when they copy code it does not work properly. I know that Front Page 2003 has actually gotten a lot better with this. I am not too certain about Dreamweaver, I have not had a chance to check that out.

CannonBallGuy

Ah. kk.

Chroder

You should still covnert <>'s to &lt; and &gt; because HTML inside a textarea is still HTML, and it's bad practice.

rallyfan

i use text area when i had dnacities.net as a gaming site that lated a few weeks and i had 30 different people to that site at that time.

lol

text area are much more easier to see and they will always catch your eyes.

chippin

well if i had to copy a bit of html code into a webpage id just use notepad to paste it in. so i think a text box would be better

ezdee

a text box with a bit of javascript so when clicking a link it would automatically select the contents of the text box, perhaps it could even copy it to the computers clipboard

kink

&nsbp:

CannonBallGuy

What?
I hope your not giving me reason to remove my first post...