dk01 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:00:39 +0000

Good to hear Steve.

steve40 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:59:38 +0000

Well there was no problem with it displaying, it just would not validate. But now it does. I use those little sign language thingys for commas, and dashes all the time. But I never thought about it.

I noticed just as soon as I copied it to the page the blue on the href went out, so I thought --- yea it might validate but will it work. So I copied it to a temp html page, and pop there was the banner. The little sign thingys made it appear as text on the page, so the WDG police couldn't catch it.

Many Thanks ... Steve O.

PS. I knew there was a way to do it.

dk01 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:22:57 +0000

If you use this it will display correctly:

<textarea name="banner_code" rows=3 cols=65><center><a href="http://blueridgesnaps.50webs.com/"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/steve40/BRS_Banner.jpg" border="0" alt="Steve's Blue Ridge Snaps - Nature and Landscape Photography."></a></center></textarea>'

dk01 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:21:07 +0000

Wait... why don't you just change < to < and > to > ?? That will cause it to validate and display properly.

steve40 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:54:51 +0000

Not on my providers server, no php. This is like being between a rock, and a hard place. I am about wore out with this validating stuff anyway. I think I will block out everybody that does not run IE, an let it go at that.

dk01 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:23:15 +0000

Can you use php? If so just do this:

<?php
echo('<textarea name=\"banner_code\" rows=3 cols=65>');
echo(htmlentities('<center><a href=\"http://blueridgesnaps.50webs.com/\"><img src=\"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/steve40/BRS_Banner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Steve\'s Blue Ridge Snaps - Nature and Landscape Photography.\"></a></center>'));
echo('</textarea>');
?>

steve40 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:11:54 +0000

Ok; this is what it looks like. If it is not in the textarea it goes hot, and downloads the banner to the page. That I don't want. But this way it produces parser errors, because you are not suppsed to have html in a textarea, but it works! and is the way everybody does it.

But there should be a way to do the same thing, without parser errors. Besides I don't think the web police should make decisions about something that works, just because they don't personally like it. The way I see it, if it was not correct, it would not work.

Busy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:32:59 +0000

You could just use a forms input field:

Or just display the code onthe page blah blah blah

A textarea with text in it should validate, can be done in xhtml so should be done in html, some code might be the go

dk01 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:09:16 +0000

Any way to post a link to the page. Its hard to diagnose without the code.

steve40 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:04:21 +0000

Well actually it's a banner code, but all amounts to the same thing=html.

 made it worse, caused it to find even more tags it did not like. I have also tried , not allowed in html 4.01.

Everybody I checked does it the same way I did, but all have parser errors also. There should be some clean way of adding code to your page, to keep it from being active. Or sort of like read only.  :(