+nfa Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 Howdy, I'm putting together a halloween cache, and wanted to dress up the listing a bit...can someone markwell a site with detail about putting html into geocache listings... Thanks, Jamie
+nfa Posted September 23, 2006 Author Posted September 23, 2006 I'm specifically looking for how to put a backgroundon the cache listing...not in the cache listing form, but through html, so that is is everywhere on the page... Jamie
+alexrudd Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 The background on the cache listing page *is* everyone on the page, it's just covered up by the cache information. IMO, having all the information on a background would be annoying and hard to read.
+nfa Posted September 23, 2006 Author Posted September 23, 2006 (edited) IMO, having all the information on a background would be annoying and hard to read. You might not have noticed, but there are millions of webpages that do not have a white background, many of them are great... But I get your drift...I really do...and I get the argument about embedded sound players on the cache-listing pages too...but html-nanny programs (and TPTB) assume that we'll do the bad design thing, and limits our ability to be creative in a number of ways; and, of necessity, they prevent numerous cool cache-listings from coming into being... I had some cool ideas in mind, but the html-nanny crunched a number of them, such that I am preemptively judged and punished for the actions of people who abused the feature in the past... too bad... Jamie - NFA Edited September 23, 2006 by NFA
+alexrudd Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 You might not have noticed, but there are millions of webpages that do not have a white background, many of them are great...I know, but I meant on an image, not a solid color. Check any myspace.com profile for an example. I understand you point: it really is a shame that a few idiots ruin it for the rest, but that's the way the world works.
Hillbilly-Rockstar Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 Just give him what he wants... Html reference... w3c.org <It's got it all
+Jamie Z Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 Nobody has mentioned that backgrounds aren't allowed. Cache page submissions are stripped of a number of HTML tags, and the <BODY> tag, in which you'd put your background image, is one of them. The compromise is that they have made it easy for you to put a background image behind the page. There's just no way to give the page itself a background. Jamie
+ShowStop Posted October 2, 2006 Posted October 2, 2006 Nobody has mentioned that backgrounds aren't allowed. Cache page submissions are stripped of a number of HTML tags, and the <BODY> tag, in which you'd put your background image, is one of them. The compromise is that they have made it easy for you to put a background image behind the page. There's just no way to give the page itself a background. Jamie Couldn't you use the background image in table? Just make the whole long description portion a table, and then all the content would be contained within that table. I just tried it on one of my caches and it works. Yeah, you will still have white background on the rest of the cache page, but at least it wont be BEHIND the white.
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