Mayo 13, 2006

Only read this if you can give coding help.

I did some tiny little thing to my blog template yesterday -- deleting something just above "previous posts" in the sidebar -- and now, when I point to the "previous posts," the archive list, or the blogroll, the entire list, rather than just the individual item, gets underlined in red. What should I do?

ADDED: Problem solved! Thanks! The answer was provided 10 minutes after I posted -- actually, after I started writing this post.

MORE: And thanks to Scott for pointing out that I still had a problem even though I announced my problem solved. Which it now is. I think.
Ipinaskil ni Ann Althouse sa 7:13 AM

12 komento:

Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

Both Andy and Mark seem to have figured it out - a missing </a> makes perfect sense for your problem. But whatever the problem is, it isn't showing up in my browser (Mozilla 1.7.11).

5/13/06, 7:40 AM
Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Thanks!

(It's so cool the way people know stuff.)

5/13/06, 7:42 AM
Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

Mark,

The problem is that Blogger impliments some HTML, and, thus, treats the "lt;" and the "gt;" as HTML and not text. The way around this HTML problem is to use HTML special characters / escapes. Thus, to show </a>, you would use &lt;/a&gt;, but since the & itself is a special character in HTML, the later requires &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, etc.

Luckily for me, Mozilla has a built in HTML composer, and all you need to do is code something originally on the "Normal" pane, click to the "HTML Source" pane, copy the HTML you want, go back to the Normal pane, paste it there, go back to the HTML source pane and copy it from there for insertion in blogger. (I did another two iterations for the above).

5/13/06, 7:51 AM
Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

And that above shows how screwy displaying HTML via HTML can be. The first sentence was supposed to read:

The problem is that Blogger impliments some HTML, and, thus, treats the "<" and the ">" as HTML and not text.

5/13/06, 7:54 AM
Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Wow, thanks, Scott!

5/13/06, 9:18 AM
Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

But now why would the Site Meter button work when the PayPal button under it is still linking to the law blogads thing?

5/13/06, 9:20 AM
Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Actually, re my last comment, it indicates law blogads when I mouse over it, but if I click on it it goes to the right place... That just seems bizarre.

5/13/06, 9:34 AM
Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

Maj.BertramPudgeman has a very good point. ALWAYS make a backup and save it for a couple of days, at a minimum. This is one of the first things you learn as a programmer. In blogger, you just do a select all in the template editing section, copy that, and stuff it as text somewhere (I use notepad). Then, if you need to revert, you just reverse that - selecting all in the saved text, copying that, then selecting all in the template editing section, and paste.

5/13/06, 9:53 AM
Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

Scott appears correct. The </a> tag should go within the HTML string: <a
href="http://www.blogads.com/advertise/law_blog_network/order"><img
src="http://photos12.flickr.com/14313679_71a9029498_o.jpg"
width="86" height="130"
border="0"><br><br><br>

5/13/06, 10:01 AM
Ann Þø ayon kay ...

There are still some errors in the code.

Mouse over your rigth side tags.
One at a time.

You will note that there are a few tags that are not¨"connecting" correctly.

5/13/06, 12:25 PM
Ann Þø ayon kay ...

UPDATE:

Blogger must have made an update to your file?

As of 30 seconds ago the only problem is the paypal tag

5/13/06, 12:42 PM
Maxine Weiss ayon kay ...

Hey Bruce and Scott, if you ever need help in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.....I'm a whiz at that.

I've got my old Commodore, and Wang all warmed up and ready to go.

Am I a techie, or what?

Peace, Maxine

5/13/06, 7:36 PM

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