How to Use HTML in Cache Descriptions

[+SCWB]

I'd like to dress up my cache descriptions. Is there a tutorial of sorts that would help me learn how to insert some basic HTML into these descriptions?

 

Thanks. SCWB

[Motorcycle_Mama]

Check this out from the Groundspeak Knowledge Books.

 

http://support.Groundspeak.com//index.php?....page&id=79

[+Ike 13]

If you can use Word (or similar word processing software) then adding HTML is simple.

 

I use http://www.free-online-html-editor.com/

 

After you have everything the way you want hit source and it gives you the HTML.

[+dfx]

using word = not a good idea. it's probably the worst HTML "editor" out there, and the chances of ending up with a magorly broken cache listing are rather high.

[+LSUFan]

If you are a Firefox web browser user, try Xinha. It is a free FF add-on that easily opens up a 'what you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG) editor right in the cache description box....just by right-clicking your mouse inside the cache description box.

 

You just type up everything you want, and use the buttons at top to adjust fonts, colors, add pictures, etc etc. Once you get everything looking like you want it to, hit the "apply" & "ok" button and it will change everything over to html code in the cache description box. You can also reopen Xinha (as many times as necessary) again while inside the description boxes and do more editing.

 

No copying and pasting from another program.

 

Just make sure you have the "description in html code" box checked on the cache submittal form. I seem to forget this a lot.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1449/

Edited July 25, 2010 by LSUFan