This is one of the times when I could really do with knowing how to do the "crossing out" trick with words. The title would have been "Stephanie's Country Kitchen (crossed out) Cafe". Oh, and knowing how to put an acute accent on an "e" would be good, too.
Driving through Wrentham in Suffolk last Friday I stopped off at the above establishment for a bite to eat. What did I have? Full English breakfast, of course.
Sitting looking at the twee teapot collection in the window I spotted one I thought I'd share with you.
Not really my cup of tea.
11 comments:
There are crossed through and accented fonts and even strike through tags you can try - not that '< s >text< /s >' (remove the spaces within the "<>"s) are permitted by this blog-site reply coding.
Bold and italics work quite well though.
That's a bit close to home, only 2 and a bit miles down the A12
Halfie apparently if you put the word strike between the usual html tags and then do the same with a slash in front of the strike at the end of the word, it seems to work, but not in the comments. I'll try it in a blogger compose window and see. Alt e will give you the acute accent and then you just type e again...é...see?
Like the teapots!
Yes!! It works in the title of a blog, but you can't do it in comments. I've just tried it on my own blog and it came out just as you wanted. I've deleted it now as a blog post with just the name Halfie with a strikethrough would probably create some confusion!
VallyP, é...café...¥es, it works! Great! ôçcåß®†¥üπ¬µñ© Oh look - one of these gives the copyright symbol. Now which one was it? © Ah - it was alt g.
Now, when you say "usual html tags", I'm not really there. I can do bold and italics by highlighting the text, then pressing the bold or italics button (when in a blog post, that is - those buttons don't appear for comments). I have noticed, though, some < and > symbols appearing, but I don't interfere with them as I don't know what I'm doing.
Steve, I'm sorry, I don't understand your comment. Where will I find these tags?
Brian, as that leg of my travels started in Lowestoft I must have driven very close to where you live.
HahaHalfie ;-) What I mean was exactly those '<>' symbols. I can't write it out properly here as it won't let me publish my comment if I do, but if you put the word 'strike' between those two little goodies, then type the word you want to strike through, and then do another <, then put a forward slash / then type strike again and close it with another >, you'll get the result you want as a heading for your post.
If you look at my latest blog post, you'll see I 've changed the heading to give you an example:
http://vereeniging.blogspot.com/2009/10/finally-finished.html
VallyP, thanks. I'll try it.
I'm not quite sure I understand your question!
The blog reply system allows a subset of the standard HTML tags including "b", "i" and "a" between <> before the text, and "/b", "/i" and "/a" likewise afterwards. They are abbreviations of "bold", "italic" and something else. They're not possible to actually display here because they have immediate effect on the phrases they surround and are not displayed themselves. There are probably others but "s, /s" ("strike") is not permitted as others have pointed out, and there's no way except trial and error for me to investigate others. Your composition software probably converts your WYSIWYG formatting to these to construct the HTML on the blog web-page and allows a wider range of formatting.
Steve, my problem is that I don't know much about html. So my knowledge about tags is extremely sketchy, but I've noticed that highlighting text and pressing the italics button or the bold button inserts the < symbol and other things.
I didn't know my formatting was WYSIWYG!
Incidentally, I think this is the highest number of comments I've had on a single post. If I'd had to predict which post would attract lots of comments it wouldn't have been one about a stupid teapot!
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