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Simply use the See the Hex colour table and my Colour Page for details of the codes for different colours. |
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| How do I get different types of Fonts on my page? To get different fonts you need something like
which appears as The Dictionary This sets the font size at 4 and tries to put in the Arial font if available or the Scribble font next, if neither of these exist then it uses the Browsers' default font. Just substitute these names for whatever font you want. You can specify as many of them as you like in the order of preference. Just separate them by a comma. To find out what fonts you've got look in your font drawer which should be in the Windows directory. Don't use anything to obscure as the person loading the page also needs to have the font installed for it to show up. |
| How do I get rid of all the frames on a page? It's very easy you simply need to insert a
This will then get rid of any existing frames and load the page into the
full browser window. Make sure the _top is in lower case letters. If
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On your frame page you will need something like:
<frameset cols="150,*"> <frame src="menupage.htm"> <frame src="main.htm" name="main"> </frameset> The important bit is the <a href="main.htm" target="main">Main Page</a> The |
How Do I Put A MIDI Music File On My Page?
<embed src="midifile.mid" height=58 width=100>Below are a few options that can be used with this command if you want.
Browsers that do not support the <noembed><a href="midifile.mid">Click To Download MIDI File</noembed> |
| How do you remove the colored border from pictures that
are being used as links? You need to add a border="0" to the picture tag. eg. <img src="picture.gif" border="0"> |
| How do I get rid of those free web space pop-up
adverts? These windows are opened with the window.open
function. JavaScript does however allow you to redeclare this function to
return a false value instead of calling the original window.open
function. Add the following code inbetween the <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function open(){
return false;
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
Update: - I am lead to believe that due to changes that Geocities have made the above code no longer works on their site. I'm leaving it up though just in case it does. Killing Tripod Pop-Ups - I have also been sent this code which closes the pop-up windows on Tripod web space. <SCRIPT>
<!-- //
function close_nagwin(){
var popupURL = "blank.html";
popup =
window.open(popupURL,"TripodPopup",'toolbar=0,
location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,
scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=0,height=0');
popup.close()}
close_nagwin();
// --!>
</SCRIPT>
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| How do I ensure that my page is loaded into its
frame? I have only solved half of this problem so far. The code below will ensure that your page is loaded into A frame. However I have not figured out yet how to ensure that the page is loaded into the correct frame. In the code below; if the page is not loaded in a frame then it will change the URL to frame.htm which is where the frame page is.
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| How do I stop my page from being loaded into
somebody elses frame? Add the following code inbetween the <HEAD> and </HEAD> part of your page.
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| How do I add a link to a page so the user can download my
Files / Software / Zip Files etc? Simply upload it to your site as you would with any HTML or picture file. Then include a normal link to it. eg. if your file is called software.zip and the file was 100Kb big, then you would include the following link: Tips:<A HREF="software.zip">Click here to download my software (100Kb)</A>
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How do I add a link for people to send me email?
To add a email link you need to use the There are some other parameters you can add to automatically populate the subject and body of the email.<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Simple email link</a>
Here is the final example where the link creates an email with multiple recipients on the 'To:' line and also one recipient on each of the 'CC:' and 'BCC:' lines. <a href="mailto:[email protected],[email protected][email protected] &[email protected]&subject=Multiple email test link&body=This is a test of the HTML support for adding multiple email links.">Multiple recipient test</a> Warning! If you include an email address on a webpage it is almost certain that it will be harvested by spammers before long. Therefore if you decide to include an email address don't use you main email address. I'd recommend setting up a new email address specifically for this purpose and have a good spam filter on it. |
| How do I show HTML tags on my page? If you want HTML tags to be displayed on your page such as <B>Bold</B> without the word being printed as Bold then you need to substitute the HTML symbols for special codes.
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| How do I stop people from seeing my HTML source
In short, You can't. Just accept it. If the browser can display HTML, the user can read it. |
| Where is your site hosted? This website is hosted by 1&1 Web-Hosting. I've been with them since 2000 and been very happy with them. This site is on their '1&1 Home' package which includes PHP, .htaccess, server logs and plenty of bandwidth and space. More information on choosing a website host and buying domain names can be found on my Buying Webspace guide. |
| How can I add a link to your website? *
If you find the Advanced HTML Guide useful you can add a link to it by copying and pasting the below code into your website. It will look like this: * I have to admit that no one has ever asked this... but I can always dream! |
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