HTML - Text Formatting Issue

Hey all,

I'm not sure if this goes here, but I believe my question is a combination of both HTML and perl (cgi script).

I have a website with multiple forms, one being a text area. The user is going to copy/paste test from a file into that text area. The thing is, it has to keep the formatting, so whatever the user typed in the text area is EXACTLY what gets sent through the email.

I have worked around this and when using the unix's mail client, i sent it as a content-type: text/enriched. this kept the formatting of the text area and still allowed me to bold some things on the email.

What I WANT to do, is send it using Content-type: text/html but still keep the formatting in the text area.

Hope this makes sense, thanks.

I'm trying to apply simple formatting (i.e., bold, italic, etc.) to a scrolling text box on my site: www.soulsticemarketing.com/faq.htm

Does anyone know how to do this?

Hi,

I added a rich text editor into my html page for text area fields, let us say description field.

The user enters the text, modify its color, changes its size and fonts...
The value saved for this field in the database is:
<font color="#ff00ff">description text </font>
and is showing as it is on the screen.

If I look at the source code of the page, I notice the following:
&lt;font color="#ff00ff"&gt;description text &lt;/font&gt;

The problem is that, there are two conversions happening:
< Converted To &lt;
> Converted To &gt;

How should I avoid this conversion so that the description text appears in its right format taking into consideration the html tags.

Note: in the head of the page, I have the following:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I would appreciate any help.

Best Regards,
Lara

I want to replace the asterisks with numbers in superscript format - so instead of five asterisks I would just have a '5' on the upper right of the character the row of asterisks was adjacent to: http://episin.blogspot.com/2011/07/f...iological.html

Thank you

I every one I'm working on a page where the text is set up in HTML and I'm getting some pretty different results on different computers. This really is a 2 parted question. First if you would be so kind as to visit this page and tell me if the text is properly sized and formatted as to fill the areas between the images:

http://www.reelectjusticecliffordtaylor.com/bio.html

I've included a screen grab of what the text looks like on my PC when I see it live. at this link:

http://www.johncliffordtaylor.com/text_example.jpg


Second base on what I've seen up to this point I would like to know if there is a way to get the text to appear more uniformly in different browsers on different PC's.
So far I'm just working with:

body,td,th {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
color: #2B24A6; (pretty much navy)
}

that are embedded right inside my page HTML page. So I'm very open to any ideas on how to get the text to appear more consistently across many computers and browsers.

Thx for the help every one!

John

This is the site in question:
http://www.kzoo.edu/ultimate/home2.htm

I'm pretty bad at HTML but I've been making due with various guides and such so if you're actually looking at the code it's probably really messy.

-I'd like all of the links on the left to be fixed, so that scrolling down and such doesn't affect their movement. How could I do that?

-I'd also like the "last updated" on the bottom to be fixed, but I'd also like it so that it's always on the bottom regardless of what resolution you're using. How could I do that?

-Finally, I want to figure out how to enter text in a paragraph in the center of the page without affecting the location of the links on the left. I tried using the center tag and such, but it would create a new line and mess up the spacing on the left.

Thanks.

Here is my code:

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For some odd reason, it shows this in Firefox and this in Internet Explorer... Any help?

Cheers

I am trying to slowly put together a very simple content management site for a footy club i run,

the data is stored in a mysql database and lined to the web page using a dynamic table from within dreamweaver, it displays all the info except one thing it appears in one huge paragraph, take a look at my page

Link is at:

http://itdesignz.co.uk/Clients/RTFC/cms/home.php

The Data in the mysql has the spaces and enters breaks in it, but these are not reflected in my page.

I am really new to dreamweaver and am not sure how to overcome this problem,

Please help

Andy

here is a post of mind I have a issue

Please click here Pumpkin Flavored or here http://mlmboardforum.proboards61.com...ead=1183882667

at the bottom of the jpg you willl see my mishap"
know what im saying is look at the bottom of it under the picture and you will see that im having a issue with hyper linking the word and the entire url is showing and its connected to the url" instead of the hyper text displaying" can you help"
yeah Aaron if you submit a post or call me on this one? or email the correct way to do this"

can someone help out a guy? Im new here as well

Using CSS, the heading at the top of the page is: h2 class="title">text</h2>

That line is supposed to give me text of a certain size and color and a certain number of spaces above and below it -

However, when combined with <a href="workshops.html#Name">hyperlink text</a> and <center>same hyperlink text</center> in any combination, the best I can hope for is the correct font size that comes out white (it's supposed to be blue) -

I am a monkey when it comes to this - I just copy what somebody else did on the site - but am now at a loss - because copying it is not making it happen -

Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Trying to build an HTML email using tables and inline CSS but the text in the HTML cell is not functioning properly.

An unwanted "line-break" is appearing at the first line. So the first line of text starts on the second line. I have tried: margin-top: 0px; as well as padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

My code looks like this:

<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #FFFFFF; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 13px">

or this

<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #FFFFFF; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 13px">

Are there any other top margin style controls I can use?

p.s. I have only notice the issue in Hotmail.

Hey there just starting to make a new site, and just kinda slowly making pages and trying to get the formatting and looks down first.

anyways here is my site: http://uberwalla.com

and you may notice depending on the resolution the footer is not at the very bottom its kinda floating high with a gray bottom under it. I am just wondering how i can make it so that no matter what resolution and no matter what browser, that it'll automatically make the footer the very bottom (touching the status bar or past it have to scroll down) no matter the size of the page.

thanks in advance,
uberwalla

Hi everyone..

I;ve just launch my new webiste but IE seems to have messed up some of the formatting. Is there an eastyfix/tool to remedy this?

All other browsers see fine. I have tested in Browsershots...

Thanks