Right above this screen I am typing my response on, I see a box to change fonts with a drop down menu
I can even do wingdings: LIke these guys are. OOPS, it looks like they don't work once I hit enter. I hope there aren't andy spelling errors here, because I can't read it on my editing screen.
Next to that is a box for changing the font size.
Next to that is BOLD
Next to that is italic, then Underline, then justify left, center and right.
After athat are four button that do bullet things.
Then a button for horizontal bar, then a funny one that says "Insert Web Link" then the last button says "view HTML source"
That sounds different than the boxes that appear on "normal" people's screens, and I don't have a "url" button.
When I go back to manually typing the old bbs codes, like [QUOTE] Does this work?[/QUOTE], well you see what happens. I haven't tried bolding things or slanting things. It looks like those work when I type the (b] and (i] codes manually (using brackets on both ends.) I can quote people, but only by hitting the quote button next to their post (where it says "quote" and "reply" to this message, or something similar.) I cannot quote outside sources and have them in the brackets quote boxes. I can bold them, or something similar like SHOCKING putting them in quote marks, but that is old school.
I cannot change font colors.
When I hit the "insert web link" button, I get a menu that has two boxes, one that says "type and defaults with "http," and a second box where you paste the code in. When I do that, I get this:
which seems to work, but I can't type any sort of shortened verbage. Following Euphrasies instructions (and the instructions you get when you hit "Posting, how to" at the bottom of this page,) I get this:
Well, dang it, now it seems to work. I must have had something typed wrong when I tried to do it in the other thread. But you can see how that would happen, couldn't you? Here is what I have typed using () at the first and the end instead of []:
Euphrasie wrote: For quoting other people, use HTML tags around BLOCKQUOTE and /BLOCKQUOTE. Sorry you're having problems.
It works if I hit the "quote" button by your post... and when I hit the "view HTML Source button" I can see the <>'s you are talking about around those quotes. It is interesting that they show the italics with a capital "I" but when I want to do itallics with the []'s, I use a lower case "i:" like this.
Euphrasie wrote: Humm.... I wonder if I hit the "quote" button in your post, hit the "HTML source" button, delete what you typed, and put in something different if it will look like a quote....
Okay, so if I first hit "view HTML Source Code" then type a message with the BLOCKQUOTE things, does that work?
Well, it doesn't make those little lines above and below the quote, but does indent it like a quote, but you can't see that I have typed "BLOCKQUOTE" either.
BTW, FWIW, I have a plug in in FireFox that allows me to view pages the same way that they would appear in Internet Exploder, I mean, Explorer. I saw the same screen Pink Floyd describes, and had the same problems he mentioned. I haven't had time to figure it out farther. You could always consider switching to FireFox. Unless you need Explorer for something specific, FireFoxis better. It's more secure, it's a little less apt to crash, and it has some cool plug ins.
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I'm too old to change. If the only problem I have is putting long url's instead of the clever shorter ones, and quotes appearing in italics rather than offset with lines, then so be it. You all will just have to nod you heads understandingly and say "There he goes again..."
It does seem to me, however, that the clever people who make up these websites would make it so they work the same in Explorer (the worlds's largest browser system) as it does in those little rip off ones...