What in the hell is Thorog on about? What has he been smoking? And where can I get some of it?
Fear not, young'uns! Thorog hasn't been having a go at the weed, and even if he had, he wouldn't be giving it to you. Didn't you know that smoking is bad for your health?1 (#1)
Then what's this about making HTML references? I can do that! Last week, in the middle of my biology lecture, I mentioned how much CSS sucked to the person sitting next to me, as a way of making conversation. They looked at me like I was some kind of freak.
Ahh, well, I know the treament for that. Take three of these cyanide pills daily, until conditions improve or you die, in which case your chances of getting any actually go up. But hark! Enough badgering of the socially inept and onto our tutorial!
What are you going to teach us today, oh hideous and green one?
Today, my friends, we will learn how to make a reference to a footnote using html. Not only will this impress the ladies, it will be a helpful aide to the average stranger (a.k.a. me) who wanders across this barren wasteland of porn and Sirius/Remus slash fic known in the modern vernacular as "the intarwebs" to find a well-thought-out rant by another member of this strange collective (a.k.a. the bundle of nerves and personalities known to her so-called "online friends" as kdsorceress), only to find it to be a garbled mess due to the continual amount of footnotage. And if you managed that sentance in one breath you, dear child, get a gold star.
The first step is to create our footnote. Exhibit A here likes to continually add stars until she eventually destroys any sort of flow in her writing with fields of asterisks, but we will use my preferred technique of a small number, like so:1. To write this, we just need to type <sup>1</sup>. The "sup" stands for "super-script", indicating that my scripting knowledge rises above the rest like a floury dumpling in a rather odorous stew.
Next we want to link our reference to the footnote. We do this using the "anchor" tag, or <a>. You may have seen it in normal links - but this, my friend, is no ordinary link. The link we are about to create is a bookmark on the page, and in order to show this, we prefix it with a hash. For example, we could link to the bookmark 1 with <a href="#1">. Put this on the left-hand side of your reference mark, and the usual ending culprit </a> on the right-hand side, and you're almost set to go.
The final stage is the creation of the bookmark itself. We once again use the anchor tag, but this time we use it in the form: <a name="bookmark name">. For example, to make my bookmark 1, I may type:
<a name="1">1.</a>
Note that I must still use the end tag to show where it ends. However, now we have a working footnote and reference system. If you noticed, at the top of the page, I put one of these novelty "references", and down below you will see the footnote I have so cunningly crafted. As always, you can "view source" if you don't believe that this code does what it says.
Why, thank you, Uncle Thorog! You've made my life many shades brighter by sharing your wisdom.
That's alright, child. Don't forget to join me next week, where I will demonstrate how to solve world hunger using no more than a paper crane, a pot noodle, and your own ingenuity!
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on 2006-01-14 07:13 am (UTC)What in the hell is Thorog on about? What has he been smoking? And where can I get some of it?
Fear not, young'uns! Thorog hasn't been having a go at the weed, and even if he had, he wouldn't be giving it to you. Didn't you know that smoking is bad for your health?1 (#1)
Then what's this about making HTML references? I can do that! Last week, in the middle of my biology lecture, I mentioned how much CSS sucked to the person sitting next to me, as a way of making conversation. They looked at me like I was some kind of freak.
Ahh, well, I know the treament for that. Take three of these cyanide pills daily, until conditions improve or you die, in which case your chances of getting any actually go up. But hark! Enough badgering of the socially inept and onto our tutorial!
What are you going to teach us today, oh hideous and green one?
Today, my friends, we will learn how to make a reference to a footnote using html. Not only will this impress the ladies, it will be a helpful aide to the average stranger (a.k.a. me) who wanders across this barren wasteland of porn and Sirius/Remus slash fic known in the modern vernacular as "the intarwebs" to find a well-thought-out rant by another member of this strange collective (a.k.a. the bundle of nerves and personalities known to her so-called "online friends" as kdsorceress), only to find it to be a garbled mess due to the continual amount of footnotage. And if you managed that sentance in one breath you, dear child, get a gold star.
The first step is to create our footnote. Exhibit A here likes to continually add stars until she eventually destroys any sort of flow in her writing with fields of asterisks, but we will use my preferred technique of a small number, like so:1. To write this, we just need to type <sup>1</sup>. The "sup" stands for "super-script", indicating that my scripting knowledge rises above the rest like a floury dumpling in a rather odorous stew.
Next we want to link our reference to the footnote. We do this using the "anchor" tag, or <a>. You may have seen it in normal links - but this, my friend, is no ordinary link. The link we are about to create is a bookmark on the page, and in order to show this, we prefix it with a hash. For example, we could link to the bookmark 1 with <a href="#1">. Put this on the left-hand side of your reference mark, and the usual ending culprit </a> on the right-hand side, and you're almost set to go.
The final stage is the creation of the bookmark itself. We once again use the anchor tag, but this time we use it in the form: <a name="bookmark name">. For example, to make my bookmark 1, I may type:
Note that I must still use the end tag to show where it ends. However, now we have a working footnote and reference system. If you noticed, at the top of the page, I put one of these novelty "references", and down below you will see the footnote I have so cunningly crafted. As always, you can "view source" if you don't believe that this code does what it says.
Why, thank you, Uncle Thorog! You've made my life many shades brighter by sharing your wisdom.
That's alright, child. Don't forget to join me next week, where I will demonstrate how to solve world hunger using no more than a paper crane, a pot noodle, and your own ingenuity!