This is Teh Age of Teh Intartubes, and everyone who posts to blogs or has a website should know a little HMTL. Here's how you type a link:
<a href="link-path" target="_blank">Text that shows up in LJ and describes link</a>
Insert the path to your link inside the quotation marks; use the_blank value for the target attribute to open the link in a new tab or window so the reader doesn't get lost and can return to LJ without clicking "back" a hundred times.
If you want to link a photo, use this:
<a href="link-path" target="_blank"><img src="link-to-photo"></a>
Here you have an anchor tag (that's whata does) again, which is what makes the image link to a website, and that link is anchored to an image (that's what img
If an image you want to show is really big (on LJ, consider anything wider than 640 pixels to be too big to fit most display styles), you can cheat it down in size by modifying the code like this:
<img src="link-to-photo" width="600">
Thewidth attribute tells the internet browser how wide it should display an image, no matter how wide it originally appeared; note that you don't need to define height in modern browsers.
Here's how it looks in practice, showing some awesome water geysers blasting into space over Saturn's moon, Enceledaus:
Click the image to see the story.
Hope that helps!
Chris
Insert the path to your link inside the quotation marks; use the
If you want to link a photo, use this:
Here you have an anchor tag (that's what
If an image you want to show is really big (on LJ, consider anything wider than 640 pixels to be too big to fit most display styles), you can cheat it down in size by modifying the code like this:
The
Here's how it looks in practice, showing some awesome water geysers blasting into space over Saturn's moon, Enceledaus:
Click the image to see the story.
Hope that helps!
Chris
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<img src="link-to-photo" width="600" />
I can guarantee you that if you are using the correct DTD, Firefox will recognize short form closing for tags that can use it.
No it isn't. The WWW folks put it in there to make it a well-formed document. It makes it easier for tools to read and use it. It helps to maintain interoperability between user agents.
*And* if you are making a website for the State of Kansas, then you have to follow Web Content Accessibility Guidlines. Part of those guidelines are that you have to make content that can be presented in different ways without losing information or structure and you have to make it compatible with current and future user agents, including assistive technology.
Part of implementing those specification are having well-formed documents, which includes all elements having start and end tags and nesting according to the specification of the DTD you are using.
(Thankfully, I only have one site that has to follow KU guidelines; most of what I do is for CSSF or my class websites, and those aren't official KU sites and, thus, free of that monstrous CSS.)
i've been doing the
i've been doing the <a href thing for a long time, too...i don't understand what the "target" means here.
i go: < a href="the url i want it to go to" > then i write whatever text (or image) here, understanding that it will be hot, then i type: < /a> hope this makes sense!!
eta: oops, meant to post that as a reply. oh well.
Edited at 2010-02-28 07:49 am (UTC)
I copy and pasted the link from the address bar in the web browser. Also I use Firefox.
Any help is much appreciated
<a href="link-path" target="_blank">text you want to make into a link</a>
Replace "link-path" with the full path copied from your browser address. Also replace "text you want to make into a link" with the text you want to show up as hypertext.
(Now let me post this and see if it shows up properly *g*)