[Hoodat]

[Slings and Arrows]

Mouseovers can’t be done on FR. You’ll have to hyperlink to the desired file and have the user click.

[cynwoody]

Nope. FR strips out JavaScript, which you would need to capture and act on the mouse events. And CSS, too.

So, you will need to post a link to some sort of player.

[Star Traveler]

You’ll need to do that work on another webpage, on another site that you have. Then you can reference the link to that other site, in your Free Republic posting here.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Obama[fart]

[GeronL]

I don’t think FR code allows for that, they keep it simple because it works. Interesting idea though.

[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>
<blink> blink </blink> Use blink sparingly. People HATE blink

<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>

"Hidden" text: <font color=white> White font </font>
Drag cursor over blank area to highlight to read...

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 Photobucket. 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.

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

Posts this:

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

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

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

Cynwoody adds this tip:

You can pre-cue a YouTube video by adding a t parameter to the link. Like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66kEastC58&t=35s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=CwrgsufbFH4&t=3m13s

Way cool! Thanks Cynwoody!

[Yo-Yo]

I’m kinda glad that FR’s HTML won’t allow mouse-over sounds. Last thing I need is to be reading FR at work and have farting sounds come from my cubicle. (Happens enough already!)

[RaceBannon]

The original code here allowed more embedded functions in a post, but too many people put too much stuff that locked threads or competed with audio or video that conflicted with previous or following posts, so, links to this are okay, but just links

[1_Rain_Drop]

Some of us are on dialup.
We like FR because it is user friendly for us.
Animated stuff slow us down slower than we already are.

If you want to share a vid or audio, post a link. Maybe (or not) we will visit your link.