This one has been posted before and the original idea is thanks to Tim Aucremann.

To avoid having those "This message has been edited by.." tags at the end of your messages you can either:

1. Not edit your messages OR
2. Add a bit of code at the end of your original message

The code is simple. Just ^font=" except substitue the < symbol for the ^ symbol in the example. That's it.


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Thanks for bringing this one back John. I didn't get it the first time around. Just tried it and it does work!

Thanks John,

I didn't know about that one (and many others). I tried it and it worked fine. I'm beginning to get the hang of some of this. I keep trying anything new, until I get it right.






[This message has been edited by MtnHkr (edited 03-19-2002).]

Ah yes, play a trick on the UBB parser - I've been using this one for years!

Just paste this in after your signature and edit to your hearts content w/out those tacky 'Edited by' messages. Here's the code:


Tim


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OK. Just how did Tim do that you may be asking. Do what? Why have that bit of code and have his signature AFTER it.

You can see how he handled this slight of hand-coding by clicking on the edit icon for his message (the paper and pencil).

You won't be able to edit his message, butyou can view it.

I'll give it a try!
[This message has been edited by Randy Kremer (edited 03-19-2002).]

Thanks John, that is too cool!!!

Now my spelling mistakes can be corrected without that message!

>>You can see how he handled this slight of hand-coding by clicking on the edit icon for his message (the paper and pencil).<<

Actually you cannot see the slight-of-hand part because the UBB parser re-writes the HTML I wrote when it displays it in the edit box. At least it does for my editable view of my own message in the edit box.

The question is, how to display code without that code actually running it. If the example I gave was executed it mask my signature as JC points out.

Well, the authors of HTML realized that people will want to display the very characters the browser interprets as HTML code. So they provided a way to do this.

The < symbol is used to mark the start of an HTML tag. When the browser sees one of these it thinks, 'oh - that must mean HTML which I will interpret, but not display the characters I'm interpreting'. If the browser were to display these characters, you'd see HTML code, instead of what it does.

So to actually show an < symbol requires a using an alias or special combination of characters that the browser interprets not as HTML, but as the author's intent to display the < symbol.

In the case of the < symbol that special set of character is: &lt;

Now... here's the fun part. How did we manage to display the special set of characters (&lt;) to show a < symbol without really displaying the < symbol?

hee hee

Ok - now enter &lt; into the edit box. What do you see on the forum page?

The trick is how to display these characters &lt; without showing the < symbol?



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