Hyper-links for Mac's and Recent posts.

First-of-all, I use a Mac for most of my posting because it is a faster computer, and I guess I am too lazy to walk up stairs and post on my PC. The toolbar that is on top of your "new post box" does not appear while on a Mac, so I do not have the button for hyper-links, italics ect. I understand the HTML codes for these things, and you them on other site's, but none of them work here. I would be using the following codes (minus the >'s and <'s)

Hyperlink- a href=URL OF WEBSITE TEXT HERE /a

Italics- /i

Bold- /b

ect.

I just wanted to see if there are any mac users out there that know how to make a hyperlink, or if any know's why that HTML code doesn't work I would appreciate it.

Secondly, I just wanted to let Jeff and Walt know that when you view member info and view recent posts and change the date of the post's shown (e.g.- SHOW POST'S FROM: 1 month) you get your own post's, and not the member you are trying to see.- No biggie though.

Thanks,

MIKE *** Edited 7/2/2004 6:26:55 PM UTC by Topthrill420***

I don't get the "toolbar" either, and I post on a PC. I've tried using straight-up HTML inserted for both italics and Bold but they don't work. The same with hyperlinks, it just posts as plain text.

John

Sorry, JuggaLotus. You didn't see my edit. I guess the italics and bold HTML's don't work either.

The "toolbar" I guess is for PC IE6+. I use Mozilla Firesomething and I get along fine using the plain text box.

You've gotta use the "standard" forum code to put in text formatting. (Remove the spaces)

[ b][/ b] for bold
[ i][/ i] for italics
and for hyperlinks either [ur l]htt p://website[/u rl] or [ur l=website]link text here[/u rl]

*** Edited 7/2/2004 8:33:59 PM UTC by MiLLeNNiuMRiDeR***

Verified: The toolbar is exclusive to IE. And if you are using Opera, be sure that you don't let it send the IE user agent string, because if POP Forums (or whatever Jeff is calling this system now) tries to run those controls in Opera, Opera will crash.

The forums work remarkably well in Opera 6, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Camino, and two different versions of Safari, but none of those browsers will display the post editor toolbar.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Thank you Millenium Rider.

[url=http://www.cedarpoint.com]This is a test.

I still can't get the hyper-link HTML, can anyone explain it better. *** Edited 7/2/2004 11:47:06 PM UTC by Topthrill420***

Put your URL in quotes as shown above and the link will work.

Yes, the rich editor is limited to IE because when I wrote the forum that was the only browser that could do it. Mozilla and Firefox since support it, but support it differently (imagine that). There is a nice server control that can do both platforms (FreeTextBox) but it generates different HTML which means the parsing engine would need to be rewritten. I can't retrofit this one and do the next version all at the same time, so you've gotta live with what you have.

That's exactly what I am trying to do with the codes... :)

It's simple, really, the format is the same as if you write real HTML (or am I the only person who still does that? :) )

If you want to add a link, you do it like this:

Visit [url="http://www.pointbuzz.com"]PointBuzz[/url]!

and the result should look like this:

Visit PointBuzz!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Hoping the parser does what he thinks it will do...

Edit: The parser didn't do what I thought it would do, so I had to fix it...twice!

*** Edited 7/3/2004 5:27:13 AM UTC by RideMan***