+Always & Forever 5 Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 I don't have any problem when designing a new cache page using HTML tags. I am not a whiz, but I can stumble along just fine and bold text, make lists, etc. Why am I not able to do the same thing when making log entries? Is this possible? If so, what am I doing wrong??? Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 The site doesn't allow HTML in logs, but a limited set of BBCodes are allowed. If only Jeremy would publish these someplace Link to comment
+travisl Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Why am I not able to do the same thing when making log entries? Is this possible? If so, what am I doing wrong??? If full HTML were allowed in log entries, someone could write malicious code in a log entry to affect things outside of that entry. Just an example off the top of my head, but they could have the page re-load somewhere else, or pop-up an ad, or probably worse. Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 you used to be able to use html code in log entries. you even could change other users cache page background images with a malicious log entry. Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 The site doesn't allow HTML in logs, but a limited set of BBCodes are allowed. If only Jeremy would publish these someplace As far as I can remember, this is what's allowed. As far as I can remember, this is what's allowed. Please report any errors. Bold Strike-through Italics Underline Color URL Link Link to comment
Jeremy Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Looks right, PS. Other than the documented smileys. Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 It should be noted that, while these codes can be used in logs, and look fine, they can look like garbage in watchlist emails. Use them sparingly. Link to comment
+CM-14 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 The site doesn't allow HTML in logs, but a limited set of BBCodes are allowed. If only Jeremy would publish these someplace As far as I can remember, this is what's allowed. As far as I can remember, this is what's allowed. Please report any errors. Bold Strike-through Italics Underline Color URL Link Do these still work in the logs? I'm having no luck with the colors... Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Do these still work in the logs? I'm having no luck with the colors... Good. I hope they don't work any more. Colored fonts in logs are obnoxious. Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Do these still work in the logs? I'm having no luck with the colors... IIRC, here in the forums it's [ color=red]some text[/color] but in the logs it's [red]some text[/red]. Link to comment
+TripCyclone Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I have to chime in here. I have been working on a series called A Lesson In Ciphers here in Kansas City and have been adding in links to the other lessons on each cache. Before working on this series, putting HTML into cache pages wasn't much of a problem. Now, it seems that every time I do this, I have to go back through and erase extra stuff being added in after hitting submit, or fixing things that have been erased. For example, I was putting in paragraph breaks and line breaks. Every time it came across on of these, it would put in an extra < br > into the text, adding more blank lines than I wanted. EVERY TIME. If I went back in and erased them...they would be gone. Then I started noticing errors with the links. Earlier this week, I went in to add a link to the seventh in the series to each of the previous caches. I got it working just fine. All links were running smoothly. Today, I went to check on something and found that all of the links were inactive, and it was showing the full line of code. I went back in and found that <a href= had been removed from each link, along with </a> and an extra >. FOR EACH LINK. So I went back through and fixed it. It looked fixed. Then I looked carefully and discovered that somehow, two of the links had been reversed. I know it wasn't that way before. I started going through each of the seven caches and found that three of the seven had # 5 & # 6 reversed, even though I had originally copied and pasted each one from # 1. Then, I found that all seven appeared to have the missing codes. I went back through, took a correct copy of the links and copied it all back in. Now two out of the seven show code. I manually went in and changed them both. Still bad. I went in again on one of them. I can't get this to fix...yet. So, can anyone at Groundspeak figure out why the software is altering the html on it's own, either by adding or subtracting tags? It's really frustrating when I get everything set the way I want it, put it in and hit submit only to find the site is altering it and I have to manually go through and fix it all, sometimes only to have the site do it again. Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 As for the links, the site has a link parser that changes the links on pages, on the fly. Occasionally, something happens to prevent the parser from running, so links look funny. When this happens DON'T DO ANYTHING. Don't try to fix it. There's nothing to be fixed. You'll just be wasting your time. When the parser comes back on line, the links will look just as they should. Link to comment
+TripCyclone Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 As for the links, the site has a link parser that changes the links on pages, on the fly. Occasionally, something happens to prevent the parser from running, so links look funny. When this happens DON'T DO ANYTHING. Don't try to fix it. There's nothing to be fixed. You'll just be wasting your time. When the parser comes back on line, the links will look just as they should. Well, unfortunately, I've already fixed the links. However, that might explain the tags, but would that actually change the addresses within the links too? I've never seen this problem before, so it's a bit odd. For weeks now, I've been fighting the system because it is added unnecessary tags into the page. Usually, it's nothing more than <br> tags, but sometimes, it adds others. It spaces everything out oddly and I have to go back in and remove them. Sometimes, it does it every single line, other times it adds them in between paragraphs. Really annoying. Link to comment
+avgraphics Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I just found a listing of all the colors that are supposed to be recognized by the "color" BBCode command -- but when I try using them in a cache log only some of them work. When I tried using them here - in this forum post - they worked only when the color command was expressed in the color's hex code value. ~~ aqua #00FFFF blue #0000FF <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs brown #A52A2A <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs darkblue #00008B darkgray #A9A9A9 darkgreen #006400 darkorange #FF8C00 darkred #8B0000 fuchsia #FF00FF gold #FFD700 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs goldenrod #DAA520 gray #808080 green #008000 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs grey #808080 lime #00FF00 maroon #800000 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs navy #000080 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs olive #808000 orange #FFA500 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs pink #FFC0CB <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs purple #800080 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs red #FF0000 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs silver #C0C0C0 teal #008080 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs violet #EE82EE <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs white #FFFFFF <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs yellow #FFFF00 <-- this color can be called, by name, in cache logs Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 The Log Maximizer script will show you what fonts, colors, and styles are allowed in logs, and gives you forum-like editing tools. Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 The Log Maximizer script will show you what fonts, colors, and styles are allowed in logs, and gives you forum-like editing tools. And it's a helluva lot faster than trying to do it manually. Link to comment
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