[Mark17]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3242857/posts

[Boomer]

I use this in Firefox. Makes it super easy. There’s a link for Chrome too.

http://cynwoody.appspot.com/fr_posting_form_enhancer.html

[ElkGroveDan]

This is good tutorial

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp

[vikingd00d]

If only there was, maybe, a message thread on this.. like an HTML Sandbox

[kiryandil]

FIRST, log in

< i>italic< /i>

<b>bold</b>

<u>underline</u>

[Roccus]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3999744/posts

[Chode]

HTML SANDBOX 2021

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3999744/posts

[Responsibility2nd]

Ignore all the HTML sandbox replies. Do not even go there. Do not even try to use any and all of the special characters that are commonly advised as you try to post in italics or post pictures or whatever.

If you can post a reply, you can use a free online HTML editor. There are many good ones. They are free, there’s no downloading, and they are easy to use. This is one of the good ones.

https://html5-editor.net/

[Eccl 10:2]

It’s impossible to give any kind of sample tutorial here, because any sample I give will be interpreted as not being a sample, and the sample will not be included in my post.

Hope that makes sense.

Go to the HTML sandbox, and play around by typing Preview, not Post.

Link for Sandbox:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3999744/posts

[SunkenCiv]

<blockquote><img src="graphicname.jpg" width=500></blockquote>

[swingdoc]

BKMK

[Bishop_Malachi]

BKMK

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZzLceo39BY

[Vendome]

https://html-online.com/editor/

[Rummyfan]

Check this out:

HTML Sandbox

[higgmeister]

Go to Office Depot, Target, Walmart and purchase a laminated "HTML guide", it has everything to get started.   With the basics in front of you, you can google for follow-up questions.

Another trick is in Google Chrome and other browsers you can right click on any webpage and select "view page source", to cut and paste content with the text or graphic you want to repost with the HTML code already there.   You have to check the line wrap box in the corner of the page, then use the find function in the dropdown menu for a word that was in the text that you want to kipe, in order to find the HTML code you are looking to cut and paste.

Something to think about though is that, if it is someone else's hard work that you intend to repost you should give credit to the author of the website.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Whatever you do, do NOT use PostScript. It won’t work.

[null and void]

Nully's Quick FR HTML Guide:

Basic formatting:

Line break <br>
Paragraph break <p>
<blockquote>

Indented paragraphs

</blockquote>
<u> underline </u>
<i> italics </i>
<b> bold </b>
<s> strikethrough </s>
<tt> typewriter text </tt>
<font color=red> Red font </font>
Several colors available, play around and find ones you like…
"Hidden" text: <font color=white> White font </font>
To reveal, drag cursor over blank area...

<font size=1>Smallest FR font</font> Displays as:
Smallest FR font

<font size=7>Largest FR font<font> Displays as:
Largest FR font

Or

Step font size up or down with <big>bigger</big> and <small>smaller</small>

Posting a link:

General:
<a href=[web address]>[title]< /a>
Example:
This: <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179145/posts">Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal</a>
Posts as this:
Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal

Posting an image:

General:
<img src="[web server location]">

You can't just snag a favorite picture from a desktop folder...it has to be hosted someplace on line to be posted here. Best bet is to save the image to an image hosting service, I use imgbb. In Firefox right click and select "Copy image location", in Safari right click and select "Open image in new tab" and copy the address in the address bar. Other browsers have similar tricks. Imgbb allows you to imbed codes to do all the HTML heavy lifting automatically.

Example:
This: <img src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">

Posts this:

Tip: control the size with "width=nnn" like so:

This: <img width=200 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:

While This: <img width=100 src="http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0611.jpg">
Posts this:

Posting a video:

You can pre-cue a YouTube video by adding a t parameter to the link. Like so:
<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66kEastC58&t=35s>Bill Ayers on Obama</a> Posts:
Bill Ayers on Obama
While
<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66kEastC58&t=3m13s>Bill Ayers on Obama</a>
Posts:
Bill Ayers on Obama

Now about that home page of yours…

Protip: Make the very first thing <blockquote> this will move everything that follows a wee bit to the right, giving you a nice left margin. Of course since any HTML command anywhere will be assumed to require HTML for every bit of text, all your paragraphs will need to have paragraph <p>, and line breaks <br>…

[Pollard]

There’s this new technology that came out around 20 years ago and is standard on most every website except this one. It gives you a little posting box with buttons for formatting and adding a url for links or images.

[JusPasenThru]

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