What's going on?

Fri, 14 May 2010 06:47:10 GMT

Posted by: roddy

This Is Not A Real Community

The purpose of this community is to provide a place to test a variety of different (and funky) markups and styles for layouts. The way this works is simple: in the navigation bar of your browser, paste ?style=mine at the end of the URL and hit enter. This will reload the community in your style.

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And let's try some more obscure tags...

Fri, 14 May 2010 06:42:13 GMT

Posted by: roddy

OK so the previous two posts have the most common HTML tags, including the deprecated <b>, <i>, and <u> tags (and that there is an example of the shiny, new <code> tag). Let's try out some of the rarer, less-used tags, starting with....

An H1 heading introducing a Definition List

Dweeb: young excitable person who may mature
into a Nerd or Geek
Hacker: a clever programmer
Nerd: technically bright but socially inept person

OK, truthfully, H1 isn't rare, but I needed something to head off the series of header tags.

An H2 heading for... a quote!

If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse?

I've never actually seen the <q> tag in use, but hey! there's a first time for everything. Something to note about this tag: it adds the quotation marks automatically (they can be styled in the CSS).

An H3 heading for a table

Tables are semi-common, but they have fallen out of favor (for various reasons) and have in most cases been replaced with divs. (If that means absolutely nothing to you, don't worry.)

Cell 1	Cell 2	Long Cell 3 + 4		Cell 5
A	B + C!		D	E
H	I	J	K	L
M + N + O + P + Q
R	S + T + U			V
W	X	Y	Z...

An H4 heading for a... bunch of strange markup tags

An H5 heading to clarify: no really, I've never actually seen any of these used.

First a del tag to ~~show deleted text~~. Maybe it's supposed to work like the deprecated <s> strikethrough tag?

Next up is it's exact opposite, the ins tag for inserted text!

Then kbd for keyboard text, which might be something like the old tt for typewriter (tele-typewriter) text tag, that's fallen out of style with the advent of the code tag for showing code.

Ha ha, I just used three weird markups in one sentence. Oh and there's also the samp tag for sample computer code; what other kind of code is there that you'd be posting? Of course there's _subscripting and ^superscripting, but they probably don't need too much styling.

The address tag is

useful for giving addresses maybe? Why is this a tag?

Big for big text? I suppose the next thing to be deprecated are the headers, then.

And that's probably it.

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A Long Post, With Cut

Fri, 14 May 2010 06:23:16 GMT

Posted by: roddy

( Let's hear it from our friend, Lorem Ipsum! )

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A Short Post

Fri, 14 May 2010 05:47:31 GMT

Posted by: roddy

This is an example of a very short post. For fun, let's have some markup !!

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