Just testing the various “allowed markup”s ☑️❎🆙

Okay, “li” definitely does something. Besides giving a kind of signature-below-the-post effect, I think it might mess up the formatting of the entire page below the point where it’s used.

So, does this “backtick” thing mean they can be used instead of triangular brackets? emYes if in italics/em

How I did what? Here’s the deal: Below the area where you type your posts, you’ll see a list of “Allowed markup”.

Put any of those things, for example blockquote, into this format:

<markup>desired text</markup> to use a certain effect with it. That is to say: the markup inside triangle brackets <> will start the effect, and the same thing, but with a backslash in front of the markup </> stops the effect. Those things inside the brackets will

not show in the post.

(Looking at this http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/moderation-memos-posting-tips-and-important-links again, I got it. “code” allows you to type HTML markup and not have it activate, useful for demonstrating how to use the things.)

I still don’t know what they all do, but here’s what I’ve found out:

“a” is meant to link (I think). I don’t know how you tell it where to link to. Well, at least it makes things red, and they go green when you put your cursor over them.

EDIT: “a” is apparently not for linking, as at least links to YWN pages are linked automatically.

“blockquote” gives a quotation effect.

Like so.

“code” causes whatever effects you type inside the “code” brackets not to be used, instead appearing as you typed it. It uses a different font, which is also useful for making a visual distinction between things. You can also use these ` (the key above Tab) for this effect (one before and one after the desired text).

“em” is for <em>italics</em>.

“strong” is for <strong>bold</strong>.

“ul” and “ol” both appear to indent. That’s probably not exactly

what they’re meant for.

“li” cause whatever you put into it to go underneath the bar where

your name and subtitle usually go. Search this page with Ctrl-F for falafel if you don’t see it. I think it may cause problems, though; look at the distance betweeen my second and third posts (but not between my first and second… I guess it’s complicated),

and how the reply text is smaller on this page than it normally is. Well, happy fancy posting!

<li>falafel</li>

Testing… Okay.

You can link in 2 ways. One is by simply entering an address:

google.com will not work.

www.||google.com (without the lines) will appear, once posted,as

http://www.google.com, which itself works.

The second way is fancier, and allows you to link without using the address – any text (or symbols) will do.

Here’s the format, with instructions:

<a href="http://www.xyz.com">desiredappearingtext</a>

This appears as

desiredappearingtext

So this:

<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

will link to Google. By the way, the quotation marks around the site’s address will be added automatically if you don’t type them.

Thus Google

If you don’t type http://www. before the address, it will be automatically prefaced with http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/, resulting in

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/google.com

for “google.com” in the markup.

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Let’s break it down further. The standard beginning is:

<a href=

The <a is an HTML opening, but note the lack of the usual second bracket > behind the <a.

This is so that there will be 2 sections in the finished code.

The href= means that the “h (whatever that stands for)” that you want to “ref”er(ence?), that is, link to, equals (is)… whatever comes next.

After href= comes the URL/address you want to link to (in quotation marks, but you don’t actually have to type those).

It must start with http://www. (unlike when posting an address).

We’ll use “example.com”:

<a href="http://www.example.com"

This is followed by a bracket (>) to close this section.

<a href="http://www.example.com">

Now comes the text or symbols that you want to be visible in the post – in this case, ExAmplE.

<a href="http://www.example.com">ExAmplE

Finally, there’s the standard HTML closing – `</a>:

<a href="http://www.example.com">ExAmplE</a>

This appears in the post as

ExAmplE

Well, that should be clear enough…

(P.S. Yes, I wrote this. All of it.)

Gamanit: One post demonstrates my HTML ignorance, the other demonstrates a little knowledge about code formatting and the ability to analyze HaLeivi’s “<a href="http://ww...">click Here</a>.”

HaLeivi:

You can google HTML escape code.

I’m not sure who or what you were responding to, but that would

require you to know the meaning of “escape” in relation to code, which I’d assume the average user does not.

BTW, shouldn’t your subtitle read “Aeolian harp by ear”?

Having looked up the Aeolian harp, I understand. (I had assumed it was simply a harp tuned to the Aeolian mode.)

Well, no one did, so I did a little Googling. Maybe later…

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Okay, just let me stick this here so I’ll have everything in one place:

I was thinking that you could create a new account with that name, but then I realized – you can ask a mod to change your name.

Make a new post in this thread and put “for mod read only” at the top. Ask that they change your name because of the mistake. If they won’t do it, you can make a new account.

As for keeping track of your posts, you’re new here and don’t know the ropes yet. Click on (almost) any user’s name next to any of their posts, and you’ll see a page with some information about them, if they’ve chosen to put it in, and 2 lists: 1 of all the threads they’ve posted in, and another of all the threads they’ve started.

There are a few posters whose names link to something else – you just need to get a profile URL and type their name instead of the other user.

Also, if there is a space in the user’s name, clicking on their name will take you to an error page – manually replace the spaces in their name in the page URL with dashes (-) to see their profile.

Thank you for taking a Randomex Crash Course!

You can find more helpful material in the “stickied” threads at the top of the Coffee Room and in this thread (and the links there): [this thread]

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Also: This user exists:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/profile/dreykup

(has no activity whatsoever [registered 4 years ago, same as samthenylic, but probably unrelated])

This may need studying…

And there’s this

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/linked-usernames

Work progresses…

SIDI:

Randomex, about bullets, sorry but I don't have a code for it.

That’s alright. One of the 8 pages I saved should have a code, or I could just copy them from your post – I’ve been doing that for musical notes from the end of the Laboratory II thread.

Thanks for doing the detailed profile-URL explanation – I’d forgotten about spaces being expressed as “%20”.

(“%X” codes are used for a variety of symbols in URLs.)

Anything else?

Actually, yes. Posts relating to a user’s subtitle may be incomprehensible because their subtitle has changed (possibly even multiple times) since the post.

And the -1 years glitch supposedly causes some posts to be out of order. (I don’t know if that’s permanent, or any other details.)

In this post, DaasYochid claims to have taken advantage of it (to pre-date his own post, I assume) – this claim is questioned by PAA.

Mod:

We can unblock, but it's easier to reactivate from "inactive".

How does that work? Shouldn’t both just be as simple as flipping a switch? (Or is there a registry of blocked users you’ve got to remove someone from in order to unblock them?)

It should be, but due a software glitch, it isn’t.

Collecting…

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/changed-usernames

Tip?

It turns out that multiple instances

of <blockquote> are stackable.

That is, you can start a new one without closing the old one,

and keep going.

To stop, you can…

use a single closer at a time

for an interesting sort of

pyramid effect.

I discovered this by “accident” while verifying my list of posts.

Tip:

The 25 minutes to edit run out on not-yet-approved thread-starting posts (which cannot be edited).

You might want to start threads only when you see recent time-stamps at the top of the main page.

Tip:

Click on the time-stamp that indicates the “Freshness” of a thread

(far right column on the list) to go directly to the last post in the thread (useful for multiple-page threads).

This can cause you to miss the last few (or more) posts on a page, though (because you’re landing on the new page),

so watch out for that.

Please don’t respond – I’d like to save the last post on this page for a compilation of all the useful information in this thread.

(Note to self – be sure to correct that one Google part.)