Need help to create a chart for posting on FR

Aug 14, 2007

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I've been to the HTML bootcamp link on FR but I can't find the how to for creating charts. When I try to post an article that a has a chart, the outside frame work for the actual chart will not highlight to be copied. A two column chart for example. A point in the right direction sure would be appreciated.

[Red Badger]

You are headed into un-charted waters............

[rabscuttle385]

LOL

[avacado]

The following isn't a "chart" format but it will keep your text in columns: (preformatted)

<PRE> 
            YOUR 
            TEXT
            HERE

 </PRE>

[faq]

I think you want to learn about creating a < table >.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Are you trying to post an Excel chart or something?

Make a screenshot of your chart, save it as a jpeg, upload it to http://www.tinylink.com/, then use the URL from tinylink in the tag < img src="URL.jpg">

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How the heck did you know it was for a un article. Are you psychic? If so, could I please have the new lotto numbers? I’ll share if I win. LOL

[mnehrling]

The best way is to export your chart as an image (jpg or gif) and host that image on a free service like a blogger account. Then paste that in as an image.

You also can use a service like RichChart to create the object and screen capture it or use the power point export to create an image.

Rich Chart Live

[martin_fierro]

[14themunny]

This is helping me—

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b84656e05b8.htm

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It’s a chart on property in the US on the UNESCO list. Property they’ve acquired. It’s broken down two columns one side the state-—the other the property.

[Red Badger]

2-12-16-24-27-34.........................

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Save it as a pic (jpg) the host it on a site like photobucket, or any of the other host sites. Then post it as an img.

[The_Victor]

Micro$oft office product all have HTML in the “Save as” menu. Create/format using MS Word, save as HTML, and then open with a plain text editor, cut and past into FR.

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Noted. Keep an eye on those numbers.. lol

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Thank you. If I can’t figure out the table chart that might be my option.

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Thank you. That’s what I’m thinking, table.

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I took a screen shot of the page and then just sat there looking at it, not knowing what to do next. Thanks for the info.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Make a jpeg of it.

When you press the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard, an image of what is on your monitor screen is captured to the clipboard.

Open a graphics program (pbrush.exe comes with windows) and paste the image into the document by pressing Ctrl-v. Crop the image to contain only the stuff you want, save it as a jpeg file, then continue like I said in my previous post.

[TChris]

What you're asking about is called a "table" in HTML. You can find out everything you need to know about HTML tables here.

For a very quick rundown (Comments in parentheses):

<table border=1 cellspacing=0>
   <tr> (Sets up a row in the table)
      <td>Row 1 Column 1</td> (Individual cells in this row)
      <td>Row 1 Column 2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr> (Second row)
      <td>Row 2 Column 1</td> (Cells in this row)
      <td>Row 3 Column 2</td>
   </tr>
</table>


This results in the following table:

Row 1 Column 1	Row 1 Column 2
Row 2 Column 1	Row 3 Column 2

The number of columns for the whole table will automatically expand to fit the largest number of <TD> items in a row. If you want a blank cell in your table, create a <TD> item with "&nbsp;" for its contents.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

ORLY?

[Domandred]

My FreeRepublic RSS feed is messed up :(. It insists that this thread is very important.

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Thanks for the link. Is it a free service?

[robertpaulsen]

Open the page containing the article. Then (in the upper left corner of IE) click "View" then "Source".

This will give you the HTML source code for the page you're viewing. Simply locate the chart you want, then cut and paste.

It takes some practice, but it works great.

[A CA Guy]

This is the best I can do with a table.

[TChris]

Oops... Sorry about the “row 3” thing. *d’oh!*

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Thank you. I went there first and couldn’t find what I needed.

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Thank you. That’s easy enough even for me.

[The_Victor]

ORLY?

Well, my Office 2003 versions of Word and Excel have that option. It's in the "Save as" menu under the pull down "Save as file type" menu which is defaulted to *.doc. Fourth option in the pull down list is " Web Page *.html."

I promise it's there on my computer.

[JerseyHighlander]

1. get firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
2. get Xinha Here! extension: http://www.hypercubed.com/projects/firefox/
3. go to your source, select what you want, right click, “view selection source”
4. copy what you want
5. go to Fr post screen, right click in response text box, and “Open Xinha Here”
6. paste into the Xinha text editor
7. format as desired
8. post

Works like a charm, I originally found the Xinha extension on a similar FR thread about a year ago, have been using Xinha everywhere since then.

[AmericanMade1776]

I think we should “table” this discussion.

[JerseyHighlander]

BTW, Xinha has a WYSIWYG chart and table formatter that is really easy to use, that’s why i suggest it.

[ovrtaxt]

Is that a cow fart flow chart?

[AmericanMade1776]

Does this help?

[GOPmember]

This should help: Table Generator

[mnehrling]

Yes

[A CA Guy]

I’ll second the commotion!

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That’s close enough to the one I wanted to post. Now I have more than one way to post a chart. Thank you.

[jellybean]

Simple two cell table code:

<table cellspacing=3 cellpadding=3 border=1>
<tr>
<td>1st cell</td>
<td>2nd cell</td></tr></table>

Copy and paste that. Replace '1st cell', '2nd cell' with the contents of your data. Should look like this:

1st cell

2nd cell

Four cells?

<table cellspacing=3 cellpadding=3 border=1>
<tr>
<td>1st cell</td>
<td>2nd cell</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>3rd cell</td>
<td>4th cell</td></tr></table>

1st cell	2nd cell
3rd cell	4th cell

You can adjust the cellspacing, cellpadding and border to suit your wishes. Hope this helps. :)

[OSHA]

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I don’t have office but I now have more than one way to post a chart. Thank you.

[holymoly]

I can't find the how to for creating charts

Don't do it!

I was charting a parallel universe, and now I can't get back!

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That is soooooo cool. But, I know my limitations. That, I ‘can’t hide.’ LOL

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I believe you....

It could be on mine and i would never know...I am so not a techie.

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I was charting a parallel universe, and now I can't get back!

Please, please calm down. With my new chart-I'll find you and bring you back!

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Thank you. I have Firefox, but I don't didn't have that extension.

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Thank you.

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And it’s a good looking table at that. :)

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Does this help?

Yes, yes it does. It helps my confusion immensely.