HTML code FAQ

[G.Bisson]

Can someone provide a crash course lesson in HTML code?

Specifically, here are two things I would like to do:

1. How do you create strike-through text? I see many folks in the classifieds strike-through an old price when they add a price drop.

2. How do you create a link with a short description to click on?

Thought it was this format:
<a href="Link Removed">description</a>

^ that does not work correctly. When I click the "Insert Link" button within advanced text editor and paste my link in that box the text editor shows just the link url, although the "preview post" displays the abbreviated thread title. I don't see any format code to edit a custom description.

Thanks for any help

-GB-

 

[G.Bisson]

ok, after some google searching and trial-n-error I was able to answer one of my questions.

first, this forum uses brackets [ ] instead of greater-than & less-than signs < > for html code.

html code for strike through is:

[ del ] text [ /del ]

just delete the spaces on both sides of "del".

[del]strike through text[/del]

This brings up another question:

3. How do you type text within brackets without it converting to code?