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LucyLove

Dec 12 2006, 04:53 AM

Hi, I would realy appreciate it if someone would give me a code for a scroll box where I can put just plain html like '<img src=' without it actually turning into an image if you catch my drift. Please report back to me ASAP. I have been searching the net for some time trying to find the answer to my question so please help! Oh & can u please be specific like give me a step to step procedure, thankyou

pandy

Dec 12 2006, 04:59 AM

Please see http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#show-html .

LucyLove

Dec 12 2006, 05:19 AM

I don't get it, where exactly should I look...It's all too confusing

pandy

Dec 12 2006, 06:41 AM

You need to replace characters that have a special meaning in HTML with "special codes", entities. Those special codes always start with an ampersand and end with a semicolon. They can be a numeric value or sort of an abbreviation.

CODE

Instead of < write < ("lesser than") and instead of > write > ("greater than").

This stops them from being interpreted as HTML by the browser and they are instead printed out. You can find more here: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/

Christian J

Dec 12 2006, 08:27 AM

To display the code in a scrollable box, you can use CSS: http://taimar.pri.ee/examples/overflow.html

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