What old HTML codes do you mean? Any unsupported (but correctly formatted) HTML tag gets stripped. But you sound like you mean entities -- I can't be sure.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
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§ ita § - Aug 04, 2004 3:44:45 pm PDT #8059 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
beekaytee - Aug 04, 2004 6:04:15 pm PDT #8060 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I used the ampersandnesemicolon for the "not equal" math sign. Plus, an ampersandeacutesemicolon for an accented e. Plus, an ampersandinfinsemicolon for an infinity sign. And, lastly, ampersandthere4semicolon for the mathematical 'therefore'.
I posted it and everything looked good, but I panicked because the times when I've bleeded out an open tag, the error has not shown up on my screen (at all...everyone else's messages look fine to me too).
I deleted it right away and came here instead. As I say, it looked great, but I didn't want to mess anything up if the board coding would be offended.
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2004 6:14:55 pm PDT #8061 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Entities are just fine. Used here all the time.
beekaytee - Aug 04, 2004 6:17:15 pm PDT #8062 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Thanks! Both for the reassurance and correct terminology.
Jon B. - Aug 04, 2004 6:58:17 pm PDT #8063 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The worst that would happen is that it would display with the ampersandtextsemicolon, rather than the entity you wanted. But they can't harm anything because they're self-contained. Unlike an open tag which can affect everything that comes after it.
beekaytee - Aug 04, 2004 7:42:21 pm PDT #8064 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Any guesses as to why I can't see the bleeding code? (as in repeated, not British)
I'm tripping along, la, la, la and everyone else is drowning in bold.
I hesitate to ask, but could it be because I use a Mac?
Hil R. - Aug 04, 2004 7:45:06 pm PDT #8065 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Beej, it's because the code only goes through to posts on the same page. If the post after yours is the one on the top of the page, as you're viewing it, then you won't see the bold. If the post with the open tag is somewhere in the middle of a page, everything underneath it will look bold.
beekaytee - Aug 04, 2004 7:52:47 pm PDT #8066 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Ahhhsooo. I think I understand.
Not that I'll be testing it anytime soon. (closethetagorusequickedit,closethetagorusequickedit,closethetagorusequickedit)
Thanks for the clarification.
Jon B. - Aug 04, 2004 7:58:19 pm PDT #8067 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Any guesses as to why I can't see the bleeding code? (as in repeated, not British)
It's browser dependent. Some browsers will automatically close certain tags at the end of a paragraph; others leave open tags open.
beekaytee - Aug 04, 2004 8:12:28 pm PDT #8068 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
IE 5.1
I really need to consistently switch to Mozilla. (that's a good one, right?)
While I'm pretty good with Mac fixes, browser differences mystify me.