+Tprints Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) Is there a way to have some codes displayed as plain text on a cache page? I'm trying to place a Frownie Face on my cache page but displayed as Left Bracket-Colon-Left Parenthesis-Right Bracket. In other words... I want it displayed as the code, not as the frownie face itself. Is there a way to do this? Thanks. Edited February 7, 2008 by Tprints Link to comment
+9Key Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) Check the "The descriptions below are in HTML" checkbox above the short description field when editing your cache. The smilies are somehow intrepreted by the site's HTML Tidy program. [:)] will look like Edited February 7, 2008 by 9Key Link to comment
+trainlove Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) I think Key means to uncheck that box. But using HTML there is probably a way to fake out the tidyizer. I know that one can somehow put <codebox] bbcode (with the correct [ to open it) in a forum post without it actually opening a scrollable code box. _ _ _ | | (_) | | | |_ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ | | _____ _____ | __| '__/ _` | | '_ \| |/ _ \ \ / / _ \ | |_| | | (_| | | | | | | (_) \ V / __/ \__|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|_|\___/ \_/ \___| Well no font here makes this ASCII Art look good. YUCK. Edited February 7, 2008 by trainlove Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 You could try representing each character with the appropriate & code. Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Well no font here makes this ASCII Art look good. YUCK. I think you need to put it in a CODE block to see it here: _ _ _ | | (_) | | | |_ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ | | _____ _____ | __| '__/ _` | | '_ \| |/ _ \ \ / / _ \ | |_| | | (_| | | | | | | (_) \ V / __/ \__|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|_|\___/ \_/ \___| hmmmm... still not quite right -- it strips out multiple spaces. Link to comment
+Tprints Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Still not having any luck with this. I tried a Code Block but "code" was changed to "pre" on the cache page. Smiley (or frownie) still comes up as the picture, not as code. Btw, I need the html box checked because I'm using that for other parts of this page. Link to comment
+Keith Watson Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Try using the escape codes on this page. HTML Escape codes Link to comment
Fledermaus Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Well no font here makes this ASCII Art look good. YUCK. I think you need to put it in a CODE block to see it here: _ _ _ | | (_) | | | |_ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ | | _____ _____ | __| '__/ _` | | '_ \| |/ _ \ \ / / _ \ | |_| | | (_| | | | | | | (_) \ V / __/ \__|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|_|\___/ \_/ \___| hmmmm... still not quite right -- it strips out multiple spaces. The standard HTML "SPACE" can be represented by this: ?nbsp; Substitute the Ampersand(&) Sign for the Question(?) Mark. Remember the Semi-Colon. It may also work in BBCode as well, but I haven't tried it yet. In HTML it can be used as many times as you want. Also, It is self-adjusting according to the SIZE of the FONT. Edited February 8, 2008 by Fledermaus Link to comment
+Tprints Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Tried using the escape codes but it still printed the frownie face as a graphic . I want just [:(] to show up on the cache page. Try using the escape codes on this page. HTML Escape codes Edited February 8, 2008 by Tprints Link to comment
+trainlove Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 For my thing, on a real web page one could use <pre> I think to allow exact formatting to remain unchanged but not on a cache page and in these forums. Link to comment
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