Am I Right To Be Feeling This Way?
Family Life0 min ago
Another one for the AB editors!
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Paragraph spacing. When replying to a question, it would be great to be able to insert a blank line between parts of your answer. I realise that brevity is the best option when replying, however sometimes a longer answer is needed. At the moment a blank line just dissapears when posted, creating just a huge wodge of text - Very unreadable. Otherwise, I still maintain that Answerbank is possibly one of the best sites on the internet!
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erm.... this could be difficult...
If you remove the '_' underscores,
<_BR_> Is a line break
<_P_> and <_/P_> define a paragraph
<_I_> and <_/I_> for italic highlighting
<_B_> and <_/B_> for bold highlighting
There are loads more, but haven't tried them! see http://www.daisy.co.uk/sites/BodgeIt/html.html
for some of them...> from a post by Cupra
The site was first designed with simplicity in mind but it is certainly true that varying the text can really help reinforce your message.
Is it enough to learn some (simple) HTML commands? Let us know what you think. Though, as has been noted before, change here is reassuringly slow to take place ;-)
Is it enough to learn some (simple) HTML commands? Let us know what you think. Though, as has been noted before, change here is reassuringly slow to take place ;-)
I believe that one of the best attributes of this site is it's simplicity
That said, I would like to see some simple improvements to the way we can lay out answers, especially where they are particularly lengthy.
The use of simple commands like bold, italics, underline, and paragraphs would (i.m.o.) be an improvement.
That said, I would like to see some simple improvements to the way we can lay out answers, especially where they are particularly lengthy.
The use of simple commands like bold, italics, underline, and paragraphs would (i.m.o.) be an improvement.
Having seen some other "discussion" sites, that appear like a drunken graphic designer's conference, I'd prefer to keep the answerbank site much the way it is.
That's not to say that it can't be improved.
Woodpam, it appears that you misread Xyzzy's instructions. You need the < symbol before the coded instruction letter and then the > symbol after it. No spaces between the symbol and the code letter. You don't need the underscores. He had to put them in to stop his example from being interpretted as HTML code. That's how I understand it. Hope this helps.
woodpam - This is the site Quizmonster gave me when I so envied all the clever bits everyone else could do -
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html
AB Editor - if you're using PHP, try the nl2br function. It a cinch to automatically replace newlines within an answer with br tags. moreover, abuse can be avoided by limiting the number of nl's in a single answer.
[Wow. I didn't understand a word of that! Luckily, someone else here will. Thanks - AB Editor]
[Wow. I didn't understand a word of that! Luckily, someone else here will. Thanks - AB Editor]
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