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and here is the code for the button:
<form><input type="button" value="YOURTEXT" onClick="parent.location='URL'"></ form>
"my button"

<form><input type="button" value="SUPER HTML TESTBED" onClick="parent.location='http://www. d21c.com/sugarcrisp/codes/testbed2.html' "></form>

This looks like a great site to test out HTML code. I'm going to have to try out that button code, too. I'll get the info into the help files soon.

Thank you!

Honest John,
How were you able to publish the test button code without it actually showing the button instead of the code. Inquiring minds want to know.

If you promise not to tell, I'll let you in on the secret!

HonestJohn posted a link to a converter that would change the code into "character entities". What a blessing that post was. Then Michael, tinkerer that he is, made a converter that will also put the code in red to help keep it separate from the other stuff you write.

I haven't gotten the latest information in the help files yet, but you can check out the latest
post about Michael's converter to get the link to his latest conversion tool.   www.eons.com/groups/topic/1193364- Enhanced-Converter.

You can also click on the help file link "Code to share and use" and find the original converter and steps to posting code in messages and pm's

What happens is the converter changes it to special characters. You copy and paste this into the message box. When you post the message, the special characters are changed back into the code.

However, you can't preview the message and then go to post. You can either go back into edit, repaste the whole message and then go straight to post or you can use your browser button to go back to what you wrote and then go straight to post. (I hope I have this right)

I just love an enquiring mind! If there is something you don't understand, just ask! I'm sure mbotos or HonestJohn will be more than happy to give you more detailed information.

One of the challenges of teaching any 'presentation language' is to figure out the method to display the codes you want to teach about, without having them acted upon.

Case in point. How to I make an HTML page that explains and shows an HTML tag without having the page interpret it. HTML has a whole library of symbols. There are 2 very important ones for this exercise. The symbol for '<' and the symbol for '>'.

For '<' you should use &lt;
For '>' you should use &gt;

If I key in <b>bold word</b> -- the posting will have: bold word

If I key in &lt;b&gt;bold word&lt;/b&gt; -- the posting will have: <b>bold word</b>

So when you want to display a block of code as an example, you [simply] go through and make the substitutions. Of course that can get tedious. Honest John found a conversion script that does the hard work... All you need to do is copy the results.

I took the script that Honest John found and added some enhancements. You can try mine at www.botos.com/eons/convert_04.html .. All this script does is convert the '<' and '>' characters to their corresponding symbols. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Michael...

Michael, that converter is slick! I guess this inquiring mind has been satisfied for now between You, MimMi, and Honest John. Thank you all!

T-bella

I'm surprised that no one wondered how Michael posted &lt; and &gt; without them executing. hint: He used "&amp;" for &
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Now you ask/think, how did I show, &amp; without it executing?
OK, you use

&amp; to show the first &.. This is getting confusing, for me, (LOL)
I'll post a chart, and you can source the chart to see how they show code, without it executing..
HJ

Wheeeee!!!!

Y'all are making me dizzy, lol!

LOL, reminds me of when I tried to show, how to code a textarea, in a textarea box, everything went fine until it got down to showing the closing </textarea>