+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Hello, I need some help with coding for my Profile page. I have a group and some members asked if I had a link or picture they could put on thier profile. Well I can put them in my geocache pages and on my profile but I have to email them the code and walk them through it, so I wanted to be able to put it on my profile so I could tell them to pick the one they wanted and paste it where they want to use it. But all I get is a blank text box? I have tried a dozen web pages for help and none of the codes work. You can see what I do have at the bottom of my Profile but that's all I can do so far. One is blank and the other I can type in but the code never shows up? Does the Profile page support the Text Box w/the Code in it??? Any help on this is welcome. McKenzie~Binns Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 This FAQ entry explains how to show HTML examples: http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#show-html Quote Link to comment
+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Thank you for the post. I will look it over some more but I have tried stuff like in the link: "Then replace the "<" character with "<" and the ">" character with ">" in the same way. " Also for the ("s) with no luck still. I may be missing some thing? If any one has gotten it to work on thier profile please let me know. I have also added the (target="_blank) in the different tries with still no luck. I have been at this for 4 hours now. *cry* I'll try some more since I have some nice images I wanted to use for the links. Quote Link to comment
+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Still having no luck...Has any one gotten this to work on thier profile page? Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 (edited) If I have this right. You want the image to be a clickable link to the webpage? I think I have this right. (Or it's totaly wrong! ) <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=fd250b97-d1aa-4a86-8864-a50ef15ab731"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/user/9bb3a038-b2d9-426b-8206-936fb7b889f1.jpg" /></a> It may be the site is making a mess of what code you put on the page... Worth looking at http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk/resources/htmlcodes.html written by one of the UK Reviewers. I wonder if putting (code)insert code here (/code) with square brackets will help it show on the page? Edited June 19, 2011 by Bear and Ragged Quote Link to comment
+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Yes Bear and Ragged, That is what I want to put on my profile. Can you get it to work on your profile page? And if so can you email me the code you used. My text box comes up empty or with the clickable image link in it. I want the text so others can copy & paste the code from it. Quote Link to comment
+Graculus Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Hi Have a look at my profile page (click on my name). In the description about me are two links to my player profile and my resource website and my photo is also shown. They are just entered using normal HTML code in the profile when you edit it like this (bits removed for brevity): <p>I'm a volunteer........ I've setup a website to provide useful resources for geocachers in the UK and Ireland called <a href="http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk">Follow-the-Arrow</a>. It is the Home Page link above.</p> <p>If you want to know more about me personally then look at my caching account name, <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=898a40ce-d29d-4547-947e-d4257ad882a1" target=_blank>The Blorenges</a>.</p> <p>You are welcome..........</p><br /> <img src="http://img.geocaching.com/cache/3a2202a3-a08d-4ee3-8bcd-67b4f18c13ff.jpg"><br /> Botswana, 2004 The photo is just held in the gallery of one of my caches and the URL is obtained by just opening the image in your browser from the cache page and copying it. If the photo you want is on a website somewhere then just copy the URL from that. For more information about HTML code look at the Knowledge Books article. This also explains the <p> and <br /> codes as well as the link and img codes. It also shows you how to use the <img src... code and make the image a link to a website. Chris Graculus Volunteer UK Reviewer for geocaching.com UK Geocaching Information & Resources website www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk Geocaching.com Knowledge Books Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 (edited) Yes Bear and Ragged, That is what I want to put on my profile. Can you get it to work on your profile page? And if so can you email me the code you used. My text box comes up empty or with the clickable image link in it. I want the text so others can copy & paste the code from it. It works! Post it in the box as: (a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=fd250b97-d1aa-4a86-8864-a50ef15ab731"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/user/9bb3a038-b2d9-426b-8206-936fb7b889f1.jpg" /></a) Remove the first ( and add a < remove the last ) and add a > Edited June 19, 2011 by Bear and Ragged Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 You did check the The descriptions below are in HTML check box right above the short description, right? Quote Link to comment
+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Thank you guys soooo much. I was on this for hours yesterday. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the help! Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Thank you guys soooo much. I was on this for hours yesterday. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the help! Your profile box only shows half the code. Quote Link to comment
+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 I know I just saw that...I copy and pasted it as is and then checked it...I am going to play with it and see if I can't find the problem. My goodness this is more work than I thought. Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 (edited) Remove the box and just have: (a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=fd250b97-d1aa-4a86-8864-a50ef15ab731"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/user/9bb3a038-b2d9-426b-8206-936fb7b889f1.jpg" /></a) Remove the first ( and add a < remove the last ) and add a > I think most people that are up to a little HTML -even just copy and paste- can manage the few instructions! Edited June 19, 2011 by Bear and Ragged Quote Link to comment
+McKenzie~Binns Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 I think so too. I got the rest of the code in by also changing the >< inside the code. Now they both show up. I'll play with it some more but I think it will be easy enough to use. Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 (edited) . Edited June 19, 2011 by Bear and Ragged Quote Link to comment
+Graculus Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 If you want to copy the text from your profile here so we can look at it then use the 'quote' box to paste it into. That way it appears exactly and the forum won't change anything. When you create your post here use the little 'speech bubble' icon (when you hover your mouse over it it shows Insert Quotation Chris Graculus Volunteer UK Reviewer for geocaching.com UK Geocaching Information & Resources website www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk Geocaching.com Knowledge Books Quote Link to comment
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